Excerpt from Marketing Aids for the Cattle Feeder Primary market decisions are when to place cattle on feed, how many to place on feed, and what weight and sex of cattle to place on feed. These decisions, combined with the feeding program, to a large extent determine the time and average weight of subsequent feedlot marketings. Depending on current conditions, feeders have some latitude in the time and weight of marketing fed cattle, but this flexibility is limited to a rather short time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Feeder Cattle Pooling: Improved Marketing Through Grading and Commingling Pooling is a procedure in which stock men bring their cattle or calves to a central location where they are individu ally graded, weighed, and penned in lots with similar animals of other stockmen.1 They are then sold in these uniform lots. Farmer Cooperative Service has been making a study to determine if pooling would help livestock producers solve some of their marketing problems. This is one of a series of publications based on that study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.