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    Feasibility analysis for development of northern China's beef industry and grazing lands

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    Author
    Simpson, J. R.
    Li, O.
    Issue Date
    1996-11-01
    Keywords
    profitability
    metabolizable energy
    beef production
    finishing
    feedlots
    China
    protein intake
    energy intake
    feeds
    crude protein
    cattle feeding
    grazing
    beef cattle
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    Simpson, J. R., & Li, O. (1996). Feasibility analysis for development of northern China's beef industry and grazing lands. Journal of Range Management, 49(6), 560-564.
    Publisher
    Society for Range Management
    Journal
    Journal of Range Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10150/644253
    DOI
    10.2307/4002300
    Additional Links
    https://rangelands.org/
    Abstract
    China, with one of the largest grassland and pastoral areas of the world, is placing major effort on sustainable modernization of its rangeland livestock industry. One widely discussed structural change involves development of a cattle feedlot industry with grazing lands oriented to a cow/calf system. However, economic analyses of alternatives have not been carried out. The objective in this article is to evaluate the economic feasibility and benefits to sustainability from shifting from fattening cattle on rangelands in Inner Mongolia to fattening in feedlots in the Beijing area. The method is economic budgeting of costs and returns for both systems combined with comparison of protein and energy requirements for each of them. It is concluded that grazing land producers would obtain more net income from selling weaned calves rather than fattened animals. Furthermore although 14,230 Mcal of metabolizable energy and 738 kg of crude protein are required per 4-year old male sold at slaughter weight by grazing land fattening, a feedlot fattened male would require only 5,670 Mcal of energy and 371 kg of protein Additional evaluations of improved cow/calf systems indicate that considerable advances can be made by improving the efficiency of China's cattle industry.
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    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0022-409X
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.2307/4002300
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