Published March 1956. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
A computer model is developed to estimate the initial investment and annual operating costs of feedlot runoff control systems. Costs are estimated for complete control systems consisting of a retention pond, settling basin, clean water diversion-runoff collection structures, disposal site, and an irrigation system. The model requires design inputs and...
An integration procedure for estimating cost functions from cross-sectional firm data is developed. The procedure is based upon the hypothesis that firms equate expected marginal revenue to marginal costs in deciding how much output to produce. Since the total cost function is the integral of the marginal cost function plus...
The purpose of this study is to show costs and returns that might have prevailed from 1956 through 1963 for commercial beef cattle fattening operations in Wasco and Sherman Counties in particular and in Oregon in general. This information is designed to show probable net returns and how they varied...
Feedlot finishing of beef cattle in Southern Alberta involves
income risk due to the variability of prices of feeders, feed and
finished cattle. Several strategies are available to reduce this
risk, including hedging of cattle on feed, participation in a Federal-
Provincial government and producer established income stabilization
program for...
