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 | The cost of feed is second only to fixed costs in importance to the profitability of commercial beef operations. The main purpose of this three-year trial is to showcase the net feed efficiency technology to Alberta's beef industry and to identify feed efficient breeding bulls. Ultimately we hope to improve the efficiency of the cowherd and feeder cattle in order to reduce unit costs of production. The trial is taking place at the newly renovated cattle facilities at the Beef Centre at Olds College. |
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| Patrick Ramsey,
Beef Specialist - New Technologies,
Alberta Agriculture Food & Rural Development,
High River, 403-652-8303 | Neil French,
Instructor - Agriculture Production,
Ag. Production, Business and Animal Science,
Olds College, Olds,
403-556-4722 |
Information regarding the Animal Behaviour and Feed Efficiency Network is available on-line. In addition the proceedings for New Technologies to Improve Feed Efficiency, Disease Detection and Traceability Conference Proceedings and the proceedings for Tools for Building Better Cows are also available on-line.
Cattleland Feedyards Ltd. Research Centre offers commercial testing for NFE. For more information, visit their website. .
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Other Documents in the Series |
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Commercialization of Net Feed Efficiency Beef Cattle - Current Document
Commercialization of Net Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle - Project
Commercialization of Net Feed Efficiency Beef Cattle - Results
Commercialization of Net Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle - Photo Gallery
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For more information about the content of this document, contact Pat Ramsey.
This document is maintained by Mary Ann Nelson.
This information published to the web on May 5, 2003.
Last Reviewed/Revised on March 6, 2006.
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