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| Title: | Towards Optimum Fat Lamb Mating Strategies on the Northern Tablelands |
| Authors: | Johns, Murray A.
Pearse, Robert A. |
| Issue Date: | 1970-12 |
| Abstract: | An attempt was made to quantify some of the variables which affect mating strategies on the Northern Tablelands in the high rainfall zone of New South Wales. A single year linear programming model was developed which permitted the determination of the optimum date of lambing of a Merino X Border Leicester ewe flock (composed of four tooth, six tooth, and full mouth ewes and mated to Dorset Horn rams) for a range of prices and seasonal conditions. It was found first, that generally a staggered lambing is most profitable; secondly, that it pays to lamb early for the Christmas-New Year market if premiums are adequate; and thirdly, that it pays to buy considerable quantities of oaten grain for winter feeding. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/9600 |
| Institution/Association: | Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics>Volume 38, Number 04, December 1970 |
| Total Pages: | 21 |
| Language: | English |
| From Page: | 194 |
| To Page: | 214 |
| Collections: | Volume 38, Number 04, December 1970
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