1986 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Technological and Economic Research on the Cow-calf Slaughter System
| Project/Area Number |
60560232
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Agro-economics
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHIDA Tadashi Assoc. Prof., Kyoto Univ., 教養学部, 助教授 (10026586)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NIYAMA Yoko Res. Assoc., Kyoto Univ., 農学部, 助手 (10172610)
MIYAZAKI Akira Assoc. Prof., Kyoto Univ., 農学部, 助教授 (80026608)
菊地 泰次 近畿大学, 農学部, 教授 (00026527)
KIKUCHI Taiji Prof., Kinki Univ.
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| Project Period (FY) |
1985 – 1986
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| Keywords | Cow-calf Slaughter System / Production Cost / Cow-calf system / 繁殖 / 肥育 |
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| Research Abstract |
To be successful in beef cattle production, some cow-calf operators begen to keep their young steer in their own operation and finish them for slaughter. On the other hand, some finishing operators began to introduce heifers and cows into their operations to get feeder calves for themselves. This is cow-calf slaughter system. When herd size of cows is small, operators want to improve marketability of feeder calves by feeding a lot of concentrate ration. However, these calves are not always profitable in finishing system because over-feeding of calves frequently results in depressed daily gain in the latter part of fattening. His contradiction should be improved in cow-calf slaughter system. Recently, there are tendencies to develop cow-calf slaughter system in Kyushu, Hokkaido and Tohoku districts. We studied and found that cow-calf slaughter system in Kagoshima prefecture was more profitable than cow-calf or finishing systems when whole crop corn silage for fattening cattle could be produced in their own land. In Hokkaido, we found a good example where dairy operation adopted fattening section by using calf hatch for rearing new-born calves, by grazing feeder cattle on good pasture and by feeding whole crop corn silage to finish cattle. To establish cow-calf slaughter system efficiently, it is important to understand nutrient requirements for cow, calf and fattening cattle respectively and to prepare much domestic feed of good quality for these animals.
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Research Products
(6 results)
