Assessing the Cost of Beef Quality Revisited
Maro A. Ibarburu-Blanc, John D. Lawrence, Darrell Busby and Daryl Strohbehn, Iowa Beef Center at Iowa State University
Beef producers manage their resources and cattle characteristics in the context of market incentives to maximize their economic returns. This task becomes more difficult as market signals often change faster than cattle producers can adjust genetics and production systems.