Beef Cattle Production and Trade.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 Beef consumption: historical overview, recent trends and contemporary attitudes (B.J. Santich) -- 2 Beef processing and carcass and meat quality (D.L. Hopkins) -- 3 Market preparation (R. Mulley, I. Lean and V.E. Wright) -- 4 World beef production (A.E.O. Malau-Aduli and B.W.B. Holman) -- 5 North American beef production (A.D. Herring) -- 6 Brazilian beef production (P.V.R. Paulino and M.S. Duarte) -- 7 Chinese and South-East Asian cattle production (S.A. Waldron and C.G. Brown) -- 8 Japanese beef production (M. Komatsu and A.E.O. Malau-Aduli) -- 9 Northern Australian beef production (H.M. Burrow) -- 10 The southern Australian beef industry (M.A. Campbell, B.J. King and M.B. Allworth) -- 11 Australian feedlot industry (J.B. Gaughan and M.L. Sullivan) -- 12 Live cattle export industry (D.P. Poppi) -- 13 Biosecurity and beef cattle health, husbandry and welfare (M. Laurence) -- 14 Reproductive management of beef cattle (R.G. Holroyd and M.R. McGowan) -- 15 Grazing and pasture management and utilisation in Australia (J. Earl) -- 16 Growing and finishing beef cattle at pasture and in feedlots (P.I. Hynd) -- 17 Genetics and breeding (W.S. Pitchford) -- 18 Production efficiency (D.J. Cottle and W.S. Pitchford) -- 19 Environmental management (N. Reid, D.A. Norton and M. Stafford Smith) -- 20 Beef business management (K. Behrendt, B. Malcolm and T. Jackson) -- 21 Australian beef cattle: case studies (P.E. Schuster and C.E. Bagshaw) -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Index.