Beef cattle production in established integrated systems

Sheep and Beef Cattle Production Systems

Stephen T. Morris Institute Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand ABSTRACT: The New Zealand climate favours pasture growth, and it is the key to sheep and beef cattle production as pasture provides over 95% of the diet of sheep and beef cattle. Production systems range from intensive sheep and beef cattle farms on th...

Beef-cattle production functions in forage utilization

Fetal Programming: Implications for Beef Cattle Production

The concept of fetal programming, also known as developmental programming, was first hypothesized using human epidemiological data in which environmental stimulus in utero resulted in altered long term development, growth, and disease susceptibility in children from undernourished mothers during the Dutch famine (Barker et al., 1993). Recently, literature regarding the effects of fetal programm...

Eating beef: cattle, methane and food production.

A number of prominent people have advocated eating less meat or becoming a vegetarian to reduce global warming, because cattle produce the greenhouse gas methane. This raises a number of questions including: what will happen to the grasslands that much of the world's cattle currently graze; how will alternate protein be produced, and what will the greenhouse consequences of that production be? ...

Early weaning in Northern Great Plains beef cattle production systems: I. Performance and reproductive response in range beef cows

A study was conducted to determine if early weaning spring born calves can be an alternative management strategy during drought and if early weaning facilitates rebreeding of young cows. Our objectives were to determine effects of early weaning at the start of breeding on cow body weight, body condition score, and reproductive performance with or without estrous synchronization and AI in two he...