Beef Cattle Production and Management
A special issue of Ruminants (ISSN 2673-933X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2024) | Viewed by 15734
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutrition; health and welfare; production management; precision technology
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Interests: bovine physiology; ruminant nutrition; health and welfare; reproductive management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce “Beef Cattle Production and Management” a Special Issue of Ruminants journal.
Beef production is a major component of agricultural systems worldwide, present every single continent except for Antarctica. Beef cattle production plays an essential and direct role in human nutrition, growth, and health, while being a major component of economic, political, and social aspects of societies. Globally, the ultimate goal of beef cattle production is to produce highly nutritious food for human consumption. Beef cattle can easily convert low-quality feedstuffs into high-quality protein and highly bioavailable essential minerals and vitamins in diets of humans. Due to the wide geography distribution of beef cattle production, different production and management practices have been adopted worldwide over the years to better serve different production environments. Accordingly, efficiency, sustainability, and the environmental impacts of production are also vastly different due to geographical regions and the adoption of different management practices in each operation.
This Special Issue “Beef Cattle Production and Management” aims to present state of the art information on beef cattle production and management across the globe, highlighting the differences in global beef cattle production and management practices while highlighting the strengths and values of different production systems.
In this Special Issue, “Beef Cattle Production and Management” original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Alternative feeding;
- Behavior and cognition;
- Breeding, selection, genetics;
- Confined production systems;
- Disease prevention and management;
- Economics and enterprise budget;
- Environmental impact and mitigation strategies;
- Extensive production systems;
- Forage systems;
- Feeds and feeding;
- Feeding strategies;
- Fetal programing;
- Genomics;
- Health and welfare;
- Nutrient requirements and management;
- Precision technology;
- Product quality;
- Reproduction technology and management;
- Water requirements and management.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Animals.
Dr. Juliana Ranches
Dr. Alice P. Brandao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- beef cattle
- efficiency
- environment
- global
- practices
- production
- management
- sustainability
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