Farm-level Economic Evaluation of Net Feed Efficiency in Australia’s Southern Beef Cattle Production System: A Multi-period Linear Programming Approach
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Selection of beef cattle for increased net feed efficiency is a current major focus for research. At
present the trait seems to be more apparent in Australia’s southern beef production system which is
dominated by mixed farming enterprises. Farm-level evaluation of net feed efficiency should take
account of the farming system for which it is proposed along with the dynamic nature of genetic
selection. Gross margin, linear programming and multi-period linear programming approaches to
evaluation of the trait at the farm-level using a representative farm are compared. Implications of
the trait for researchers and beef producers are identified