Lower Amazon an acceptable means through which to surmount the high investment hurdle of starting a cattle herd. These … contracts – called sociedades – allow small ranchers to raise an outside investor's cattle in return for a portion of the … offspring and are commonplace in the cattle production systems of the Amazon. But, notwithstanding a vast literature on cattle …

This study was an attempt to devise productive orientations of cattle herds in eastern high plains of Algeria. In this … regard, 165 farms randomly identified were investigated. The selection of breeders was based to existence of cattle on the … adopted by farmers in a region through the analysis of the relationship between the maintenance of different types of cattle …

percent) in the proportion of crossbred dairy cows in the national herd (estimated to be 11 million cattle). At farm level … breeding programs negatively affect numbers of dairy cattle stocks especially in Northern Uganda. Furthermore, the perpetually …

Recent droughts have demonstrated the sensitivity of cattle inventories to adverse weather. Statelevel first … provide insights into the recovery time associated with and degree of rebuilding cattle herds following a drought. Regional … cattle inventory responses to weather are shown to be asymmetric as drought conditions have substantial short-run impacts on …