This study evaluates both the profitability and risk efficiency of grazing stocker steers on conservation tillage …. Stocker steer net return distributions by tillage treatment are constructed and ranked for risk efficiency using SERF. The … results indicate the NT system is the most profitable and most risk efficient of the three tillage systems, followed by the RT …

and increased dark cutter incidence associated with heifers relative to steers creates additional financial risk when …

cumulative distribution functions of whole-farm returns according to specified risk preferences. The results indicate NT farms …