Sorting Strategies for Long Yearling Cattle Grown in an Extensive Forage Utilization Beef Production System

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 225-235

  Macdonald, J C ^a   Klopfenstein, T J ^a   Erickson, G E ^a   Macken, C N ^a   Folmer, J D ^a   Blackford, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Beef production; Extensive forage utilization; Profitability; Sorting; Yearlings

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348955600     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15232/S1080-7446(15)31098-6     Document Type: Article

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