Ecological total merit index for an Austrian dual purpose cattle breed

Total merit indices in dual purpose cattle

The economic efficiency of dual purpose cattle is influenced by a large number of traits which may be classified in groups of dairy, beef and functional traits. The combination of estimated breeding values for single traits in a total merit index, as long practised in some Scandinavian countries, is currently being implemented in a number of Central European states. Economic values for populati...

Report on Economic Basis for a Nordic Total Merit Index

Low Cost Feeding Strategies for Dual Purpose Cattle in Venezuela

This simulation study was to evaluate low cost feeding strategies in response to higher cost of commercial concentrates to maintain current milk sales from dual purpose cattle herds in the humid lowlands of western Venezuela. Data were from farm surveys in 1987 and 1988. Baseline net margins from milk and beef per cow per year were $132 and $99 for two farm cases with average dally milk of 10 a...

Minhota breed cattle: Carcass characterization

Non-market coordination: towards an ecological response to Austrian economics

Although the ecological tradition tends to favour a substantive role for non-market institutions in securing objectives such as environmental sustainability, Green theorists have paid relatively little attention to the important challenge posed to such proposals by the promarket arguments of Austrian Economics. The methods of Ecological Economics, such as multiple criteria evaluation, offer imp...