Journal article
Economic effects of alternate growth path, time of calving and breed type combinations across southern Australian beef cattle environments: Industry-wide effects
GR Griffith
Animal Production Science | CSIRO PUBLISHING | Published : 2009
DOI: 10.1071/EA08264
Abstract
The 'Regional Combinations' project and its biophysical outcomes, and the subsequent identification of the most profitable beef cattle production systems across different environments in southern Australia, have been described in several other papers in this special edition. In this paper, the economic calculations reported for each of the individual beef enterprises representative of the various state sites are aggregated up to the level of the Australian cattle and beef industry and then projected forward over several years into the future. To do this, an existing model of the world beef market is used. The analyses suggest that both the fast-growth-rate technology and the time-of-calving ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The financial and in-kind support of the Cooperative Research Centre for Cattle and Beef Quality and its partner agencies is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks also to the many staff of these agencies that assisted in field operations, data collection and processing, biometrics and administrative support. The economics team pays a special tribute to the overall project management team of Bill McKiernan and Jim Walkley who provided support, data and other assistance whenever asked. Stuart Mounter and Kirrily Pollock provided valuable comments on an earlier draft of this paper.