Systems Approach to the Determination of Optimal Beef Herd Culling and Replacement Rate Strategies
Abstract
The study is concerned with the analysis of different replacement and culling rate strategies for a typical cow-calf operation. The primary objective is to provide appropriate herd management criteria at the firm level that will enable producers to optimize their returns under conditions of highly variable prices and rapidly rising costs. A system model is used in this study to incorporate all factors which are necessary to provide a 11 good 11 solution to the above problem.
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