AgGuide – Managing and marketing beef

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A Practical Handbook
By Jennifer Laffan Dept of Primary Industries
This publication is a companion to Ag Guide – Getting started in beef. It is a revision and modification of a previous series, The Beef Business. Contents include: Cattle industry overview, Manage the breeding herd, Pastures for the herd, Selling methods and costs, Other aspects of marketing, Muscle and muscle score, Fat assessment and fat score, Frame size, Growth, maturity and carcase suitability, Understand your product, The killsheet, Get the best return and Some terms explained. Also included are two appendix: Ruminants and rumination and Calculating and using DSE ratings for beef cattle.
(110 pages, Paperback, Australia)

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