Defining Biological Efficiency of Beef Production
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“Efficiency” is a poorly defined and generally overused term in livestock production. The segmentation present in the beef industry provides wide latitude for limited, and potentially conflicting, definitions and makes achievement of an industry-wide consensus on the definition of efficiency difficult. Much of what we believe today about efficiency of animal production was introduced by Dickerson (1970) in a paper by the same name and was further developed by him and his students in an array of papers on biological and economic efficiency in beef cattle and other species that followed over the next 30+ years.
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