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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Cattle feeding"”.
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Improving the Efficiency of Dairy Cattle Feeding
… requirements of dairy cows result in inefficient feeding, as under-prediction of requirements results in deficiency, and over-prediction results in excess. To avoid limitations in production due to AA deficiencies, protein is fed in quantities that likely exceed requirements. Overfeeding of AA …
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Volatility Forecasting and Value-at-Risk: An Application to Cattle Feeding
… measures ability to forecast large losses in the cattle feeding margin. Variances and correlations developed using the JP Morgan's Risk Metrics method with a decay factor of 0.97 provided superior Value-at-Risk estimates among other well calibrated specifications. This research is one of the few …
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Assessment of Labor Recruitment & Retention Challenges in the Cattle Feeding Industry
… analysis, several labor challenges within the cattle feeding industry are identified and investigated. As immigration policy floats back and forth in the political spectrum, feedyards continue to increase their reliance on immigrant and minority labor because of the decline of the native born …
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Economic Conditions Necessary for the Installation of Fixed Assets in Mechanized Cattle Feeding Systems
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:37:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6901424.pdf: 7239696 bytes, checksum: a35a2803d087e40114292e6da6f6d733 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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Why do I want to work for you? An Analysis of Job Satisfaction, Laborer Retention, and Recruitment in the Cattle Feeding Industry
The Texas Cattle Feeders Association (TCFA) region is the most productive beef cattle region in the United States (TCFA, 2023). Productivity and efficiency are two areas that work hand in hand and employees drive both. To identify areas of growth for the beef cattle industry, assessing concerns of …
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Interaction between the cattle feeding sector and the live cattle futures market: implications to the stability of short-run cash slaughter cattle prices
The short-run interaction between the cattle feeding sector, as represented by <u>Cattle Fax</u> member feedlots, and the live cattle futures market is examined. The purpose of this research is to explore the simultaneity between placement decisions made in the cattle feeding sector and the price …
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The effect of tylosin exposure or exclusion on liver abscess prevalence, fecal pathogen populations, and the microflora of finished beef products from feedlot cattle
… in animal production. More than 70% of feedlot cattle in 1000+ head lots are currently exposed to tylosin phosphate, a macrolide antibiotic used for the reduction and prevention of liver abscesses. As such, its potential removal from cattle feeding strategies could have a marked impact on both …
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An Investigation to Determine the Relative Feeding Value of Stacked Green Corn Compared to Corn Fodder; Corn Silage Plus Alfalfa Hay; and Alfalfa Hay Alone As A Preliminary Feed for Fattening Cattle
Although a number of feeding experiences have been conducted during the past few years to determine the feeding value of corn fodder, corn silage, and alfalfa hay as preliminary feeds for fattening cattle, and results of same have been published, there seems however, to be no available information …
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The Feeding Value of High Dry Matter Corn Silage
<p>The important of corn in dairy cattle feeding is generally acknowledged. A popular way of preserving the crop is to make corn silage, thus using the whole plant for feed and preserving maximum feed per acre. The increased utilization of corn silage by dairymen may be due to its high energy …
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The Effect of Harvesting and Storage Methods on Chemical Composition and in Vitro Digestibility of First Cutting Alfalfa Hay
<p>The importance of alfalfa hay in dairy cattle feeding is generally acknowledged. The reasons why alfalfa is used so extensively in dairy cattle rations are due to its high protein content, high acceptability by cattle, its wide ·area of adaptation, and high yields. A popular way of handling the …
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Lung auscultation as a predictor of lung lesions and bovine respiratory disease outcome in feed yard cattle
… most common, and costly, disease in feed yard cattle. A review of the literature shows a correlation between the diagnosis of BRDC ante-mortem and respiratory lesions at slaughter. The objectives of the studies reported here were to: 1) validate a thoracic auscultation scoring system by …
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Survival and Overland Transport of Fecal Coliform under Canadian Prairie Conditions
In-field winter feeding of cattle is becoming a common practice in the Canadian Prairie. Cattle feeding in-field during winter provides economic advantages to agricultural producers over feeding the cattle in confined corrals by eliminating the extra work and cost associated with feed transport and …
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Shelf-Life Improvement of Distillers Wet Grains with Solubles
… supplemental protein source in North American cattle rations. However due to its short shelf-life, 3-4 days in the summer and 7-10 days in the winter, its use is limited to cattle feeding facilities within close proximity to an ethanol production plant. It is known that the shelf-life of DWGS …
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Tax treatment of trade in cattle futures: possible implications to market efficiency and price stability
Prolonged imbalances between feeder cattle costs and the pricing opportunities being offered cause highly variable placements of cattle into feedlots and variability in fed cattle prices. Such variability imposes costs on everyone in the system, from producer to consumer. Cattle feeders are in a …
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The influence of forage conservation methods on the development of feed lot systems for beef and dairy cattle
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, 1963
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Ammonium propionate and ammonium lactate as nitrogen sources for lactating dairy cows
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Dairy, 1973
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Tax treatment of trade in live cattle futures using a mean variance approach: implications to market efficiency and welfare changes
Cattle feeders are in a position to incorporate the influence of current and highly specific information into price discovery processes for live cattle and feeder cattle futures. The tax treatment of speculative trades in the cattle futures markets has the potential to effective block participation …
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The utilization of banana meal as a substitute for traditional high energy feeds for lactating dairy cattle in Ecuador
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Dairy Science, 1976
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Modeling nutrient requirements and measuring nutrient outputs of feedlot cattle
… predict the requirements of modern, heavy cattle based on historic data has not been explored. A dataset derived from 19 studies containing 289 means for treatments testing ractopamine during the final 14 to 42 days of finishing was subjected to a meta-analysis to develop a regression …
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