Stocking rate risk for pasture-fed steers under weather uncertainty

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 541-549

  Parsch, Lucas D ^a   Popp, Michael P ^a   Loewer, Otto J ^b  

^a Department of Agricultural Economics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Economies; Grazing management; Risk; Simulation; Stochastic dominance; Stocker steers; Stocking cote

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CYNODON DACTYLON;

EID: 0030881380     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003711     Document Type: Article

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