Many cow/calf producers struggle with what is a fair price to pay for cows or heifers in an up cattle market. This article is designed to demonstrate the important relationship between profitability and debt serving capacity. With high calf prices, it is important for each producer to analyze...

Data are pooled and analyzed to differentiate the value between "packer" and "feeder" type cattle. Results indicate that the value of animals entering the stocker and feeding stages of the industry are sensitive to gender, color, breedtype, body condition, and the presence or absence of brands...

The stocker cattle grazing enterprise in the Southern Plains regions of the United States is an important economic activity. The objective of the study was to determine the difference in the expected net return of a no-till forage establishment system relative to the intensive clean-till...

Portions of the U. S. have recently or are currently experiencing extended periods of drought. Producers considering the purchase of breeding stock to rebuild herds while forage supplies recover could be doing so at or near the top of the current cattle price cycle. This research investigates...

A case study is presented about the financing arrangements, contract terms, and business relationships of a set of contract hog producers whose loans from community banks have been guaranteed by the Illinois Farm Development Authority. The results reflect the maturity and stability of contract...

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The importance of the livestock sector to the economy of Uruguay can hardly be overstated. Livestock related exports averaged 83.7 percent of the country's total exports in the period 1967-1973 (Munoz Duran). In recent years, however, the country has faced a problem of a relatively slow rate of...

The objective of this paper is to disentangle the question of the influence of R&D investment on resource allocation efficiency and income distribution in Japanese agriculture during 1960-87. The average marginal product of R&D stock as estimated by the cost function approach is calculated to be...

The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. www.ifama.org