This edition is a comprehensive beef cattle management text. This text provides a unique perspective on the total industry while incorporating a systems view of management decisions and their impact on both productivity and profitability.--[book cover].

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For Animal Science courses in Beef Production and Management, Cow-Calf Management, Seedstock Management, and Stocker Cattle and Feedyard Management. The most comprehensive beef cattle text available, Beef Production and Management Decisions is written to allow students to understand the structural, regional, economic, and management changes and issues confronting the beef industry. This text serves three primary purposes: 1) to identify the significant biological principles that contribute to profitability and sustainability of the production of beef cattle; 2) to systematically integrate the biological and economic principles required to make effective management decisions; and 3) to enhance understanding, communication, and cooperation among all segments of the beef industry.

Excerpt from Manual of Instruction: Course 10, Increasing Beef Production; Rural War Production Training Program Course 10, Increasing Beef Production, is one of a series of courses which have been prepared in the Food for Victory pro gram. The objective has been to set forth in brief form the phases of the beef industry considered pertinent to the immediate prob lem of Increasing Beef Production in Pennsylvania. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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