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| Hennessy, David A.. |
| Feeder animal prices depend on fed animal prices, the biological growth technology, and feed costs. In addition, daily maintenance costs can be avoided through accelerated feeding. These observations allow us to model optimal feeding under equilibrium feeder animal pricing. Our model enables a better understanding of regulation in feedstuff markets. The feeder animal price-weight schedule is likely decreasing and convex in weight. Prices for animals with better growth potential should be less sensitive to feed and fed animal prices. Prices for lighter animals should be more sensitive to these prices. Regression analyses on Southern Great Plains cattle prices provide support for this model. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Days on feed; Energy use; Feed ban; Growth hormones; Kleiber's law; Ration density; Veal market; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8609 |
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| Canning, Patrick N.; Charles, Ainsley; Huang, Sonja; Polenske, Karen R.; Waters, Arnold. |
| Energy is an important input in growing, processing, packaging, distributing, storing, preparing, serving, and disposing of food. Analysis using the two most recent U.S. benchmark input-output accounts and a national energy data system shows that in the United States, use of energy along the food chain for food purchases by or for U.S. households increased between 1997 and 2002 at more than six times the rate of increase in total domestic energy use. This increase in food-related energy flows is over 80 percent of energy flow increases nationwide over the period. The use of more energy-intensive technologies throughout the U.S. food system accounted for half of this increase, with the remainder attributed to population growth and higher real... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Energy use; Energy technologies; Food expenditures; Input-output analysis; Population change; Structural decomposition analysis; Supply chain analysis; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59381 |
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