Factors Affecting Beef Cattle Performance and Profitability

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 286-296

  Koknaroglu, H ^a,c   Loy, D D ^a   Wilson, D E ^a   Hoffman, M P ^a   Lawrence, J D ^b  

^a Department of Animal Science ^*  (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beef Cattle; Feedlot Performance; Production Economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008214547     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15232/S1080-7446(15)31220-1     Document Type: Article

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