Beef Production and Management Decisions - Hardcover

Field, Thomas G.; Taylor, Robert E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130888796 ISBN 13: 9780130888792

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2002

Synopsis

The most comprehensive beef cattle book available today, Beef Production and Management Decisions is written to allow readers to understand the structural, regional, economic, and management changes and issues confronting the current beef industry. Emphasizing management principles for the industry and each of the segments of production and the processing chain, this book covers the structural changes in the industry, the creation of profitable marketing systems, and the impacts of international trade of beef and beef products. It also deals with the biological and economic principles needed to understand beef cattle productivity, providing an approach to management of information, an understanding of the past, and preparation for the the future of the beef cattle industry. This book is appropriate reading for beef cattle producers (seedstock, cow-calf, stocker, and feedyard), agri-business professionals that sell goods and services to the industry, and government agency personnel whom affect agriculture.

About this title

From the Publisher

The text examines the primary biological principles that contribute to raising productive beef cattle end discusses the biological and economic principles that serve as the foundation for effective management decisions. The text's integrated approach to the various sectors of the beef industry gives students a more unified perspective. The second edition continues to examine management issues in great depth. Chapters are devoted to topics such as commercial cow-calf management decisions, yearling-stocker management decisions, feedlot management, and retail beef products and consumers.

From the Back Cover

Beef Production and Management Decisions, fourth edition, is the most comprehensive beef cattle management text available on the market today. Taking a management-systems approach, the new edition identifies the primary biological principles that contribute to raising productive beef cattle. It then integrates these principles with the economic considerations involved in producing profitable, preferred consumer products, thus enhancing understanding and communication among all segments of the beef industry.

Some features of this edition include:

• Takes an updated look at the cattle cycle and the factors that influence it
• Adopts a more ecologically-based viewpoint toward U.S. geography
• Focuses on how Integrated Resource Management principles apply to the beef industry
• Provides in-depth coverage of how beef producers can lower production costs and increase profitability

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0130888796
• ISBN 13: 9780130888792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 747