Boaitey, Albert; Goddard, Ellen; Mohapatra, Sandeep; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
In this paper the issue of nonlinearity and heterogeneity in the derivation of feed efficiency estimates for beef cattle based on performance data for 6253 animals is examined. Using parametric, non-parametric and integer programming approaches, we find evidence of nonlinearity between feed...
