The Effects of the Geneotype of Beef Cows and Terminal Crossing Sires on the Quality of Their Progeny and Their Suitability for Different Market Outlets B-03-98
Duration 3 years commencing April 1999
Team and Leader R W J Steen
Organisations Involved Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland
Background and Summary
The Northern Ireland beef industry produces a very varied product in terms of carcass weight, fatness, and conformation from animals with a wide range of genotypes.
Increasing the lifetime growth rate of beef cattle - B-05-01
Duration
March 2001 to April 2005
Team and Leader R.W.J. Steen and B.W. Moss
Organisations involved Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough, Co. Down and Food Science Division, DARD
Background and Summary
The overall efficiency of beef production in Northern Ireland is currently limited by low lifetime growth rates in a major proportion of cattle. Higher growth rates would improve efficiency in terms of beef output per unit of food consumed, but this must be achieved at minimal extra cost per unit of food input, if the improvement in efficiency is to be translated into extra profit.
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