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THE INTENSIFICATION OF SINGLE‐SUCKLED CALF REARING FOR BEEF PRODUCTION *
Author(s) -
Flecchia P.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
grass and forage science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1365-2494
pISSN - 0142-5242
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2494.1970.tb00611.x
Subject(s) - acre , herd , gross margin , production (economics) , agriculture , agricultural science , agricultural economics , zoology , economics , biology , ecology , macroeconomics
ABSTRACT Traditionally single suckling is an extensive enterprise which has heen confined largely to the hill‐ and marginal‐areas of the country. In 1965 a single‐suckler herd was estahlished at Henley Manor in an attempt to justify economically the existence of the enterprise on intensively managed lowland grass. Over the four years since then gross margins have increased from ±21 to ±34 per acre, and the indications are that these results can he further improved upon, thus suggesting that the suckler herd could have an increasing role to play in British agriculture.