CASE STUDY: Preconditioning Beef Calves: Are Expected Premiums Sufficient to Justify the Practice?

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 502-514

  Dhuyvetter, K C ^a   Bryant, A M ^b   Blasi, D A ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Feeder Cattle; Hedonic Model; Preconditioning; Profitability; Vaccinations

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008199827     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15232/S1080-7446(15)31256-0     Document Type: Article

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