Identification of productive systems of beef cattle in the northwest Region of Paraná, Brazil

The purpose of this paper is to identify beef cattle production systems in the northwestern part of the state of Paraná, Brazil. To achieve this, interviews with 42 randomly selected cattle breeders were conducted between the months of November and December 2016 to describe the reality of the farms of this region. These interviews were carried out through a semi-structured questionnaire containing 49 questions pertaining to the reality of farms regarding herd management and property (nutrition, health, reproduction, and animal welfare), environment care, property area, and realized activities. Additionally, this questionnaire described the requirements of slaughterhouse for animal housing and the values obtained by the animals marketed according to the producers. After the interviews were carried out, a data bank was created using the software Microsoft Excel (ver. 2010). The data was later transferred to the software PASW 18 for Windows to perform multivariate statistical analyses. Defining the most representative variables was realizedwith multivariate statistical analysis, and these were represented by factor analysis, cluster analysis, and discriminant analysis to define the production systems. Through statistical analysis, three different systems were defined: the first production system has 18, the second production system five, and the third production system has 18 cattle breeders. The three systems found in the northwest region of the state of Paraná have different production and marketing characteristics, with the second system being superior to the other systems.

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Quantitative analysis of the beef cattle industry in the state of Pará, Brazil

Semina Ciências Agrárias ◽

10.5433/1679-0359.2018v39n2p747 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 747

Author(s):

Marcos Antônio Souza dos Santos ◽

José De Brito Lourenço Júnior ◽

Antônio Cordeiro de Santana ◽

Alfredo Kingo Oyama Homma ◽

Cyntia Meireles Martins ◽

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Keyword(s):

Beef Cattle ◽

Production Systems ◽

Supply And Demand ◽

Generalized Method Of Moments ◽

The State ◽

Economic Surplus ◽

Cattle Industry ◽

Rural Credit ◽

Production Value ◽

Productivity Gains

The state of Pará has the fifth largest cattle herd in Brazil at 20.3 million heads, and beef cattle breeding accounts for 44.32% of the agricultural production value. Using a recursive econometric model estimated by the generalized method of moments, we evaluated the effects of variables that define the supply and demand of slaughtered beef cattle from 1990 to 2015. The results showed that supply and demand were inelastic to prices. Increases in rural salary and calf prices negatively affected supply, and the response to rural credit applications occurred with a four-year lag due to the biological and technological characteristics of production systems. Deforestation tended to increase the supply of cattle and slaughterhouses appropriated the largest share of the economic surplus generated. There were productivity gains since the early 1990s, with the yield of slaughtered animals was 230.55 kg for cattle and 182.25 kg for cows, while currently, it is 276 and 202.5 kg, respectively. The creation of the Agriculture and Livestock Defense Agency of the State of Pará had a positive effect on the supply of cattle and the expansion of agroindustry structure, contributing to the supply of large markets with higher quality beef.

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Inhibited development of Ostertagia ostertagi in relation to production systems for cattle

Parasitology ◽

10.1017/s003118200005410x ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 85 (1) ◽

pp. 21-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

M. G. Smeal ◽

A. D. Donald

Keyword(s):

Beef Cattle ◽

Dairy Cattle ◽

Production System ◽

Production Systems ◽

New South ◽

New South Wales ◽

Cattle Production ◽

Ostertagia Ostertagi ◽

South Wales

SUMMARYOn a coastal farm in New South Wales where beef and dairy cattle production was carried on side-by-side, separate pasture plots were contaminated with eggs of Ostertagia ostertagi by calves from each production system in autumn, winter or spring. Successive groups of parasite-free tracer calves grazed on the plots for 14 days at 4-week intervals and were then killed for worm counts 14 days after removal from pasture. On all plots, the proportion of inhibited early 4th-stage larvae in tracer calves reached a maximum in spring, and was consistently and very significantly higher in calves which grazed plots contaminated with O. ostertagi of beef cattle origin. Factors which may be responsible for this difference between beef and dairy cattle populations of O. ostertagi are discussed.

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Reduced age at slaughter in youthful beef cattle: Effects on carcass merit traits

Canadian Journal of Animal Science ◽

10.4141/cjas2012-014 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 92 (4) ◽

pp. 449-463 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Ó. López-Campos ◽

J. A. Basarab ◽

V. S. Baron ◽

J. L. Aalhus ◽

M. Juárez

Keyword(s):

Beef Cattle ◽

Production System ◽

Production Systems ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Carcass Traits ◽

Carcass Composition ◽

System Effect ◽

Quality Grade ◽

Main Production ◽

Carcass Merit

López-Campos, Ó., Basarab, J. A., Baron, V. S., Aalhus, J. L. and Juárez, M. 2012. Reduced age at slaughter in youthful beef cattle: Effects on carcass merit traits. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 92: 449–463. Two-hundred and twenty-four spring-born British×Continental crossbred steers were used in a 2-yr project to evaluate the effect of production system (calf-fed vs. yearling-fed) and its interaction with breed cross and hormone implant strategies, with and without β-adrenergic agonist on carcass characteristics. Carcasses from yearling-fed steers were 32% heavier (P<0.001), resulting in higher (P<0.05) dressing percentages, grade fat and rib-eye (longissimus thoracis) area (REA) (1.1, 32 and 10%, respectively). However, despite being lighter, the estimated lean yield percentage was 3% greater (P=0.010) in carcasses from calf-fed steers. No difference (P>0.05) was observed for marbling scores between production systems. Use of hormonal implants increased (P<0.001) weights of live animals and carcasses (7 and 9%, respectively). However, non-implanted yearling-fed steers had the lowest proportion of Canada Quality Grade A and the highest proportion of Canada Quality Grade AAA carcasses (P<0.001). Moreover, the observed increase (P=0.016) in marbling scores (up to 37%) from British cross-bred steers disappeared with the use of implants. The only effect observed on carcass traits from the use of β-adrenergic agonists was an increase of 6% in REA (P=0.032). The main production system effect observed for carcass composition was a lower (P=0.008) proportion of bone in carcasses from yearling-fed steers. The use of hormonal implants increased (P<0.001) the proportion of lean and decreased (P=0.019) the proportion of fat (P<0.05). Overall carcass composition of steers with large Continental influence (>50%) had a higher proportion of lean and bone and a lower proportion of fat than carcasses from 50–75% British steers (P<0.001), which was also reflected in the composition of several individual primal cuts (e.g., rib, short-loin, flank, chuck and plate). The interactions amongst production systems and the other production factors studied were minimal. Therefore, despite expected differences in carcass size, reducing age at slaughter did not have a negative impact on Canadian beef carcass traits.

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198 Beef cattle support system modeling

Journal of Animal Science ◽

10.1093/jas/skz397.160 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 98 (Supplement_2) ◽

pp. 68-69

Author(s):

Robin R White

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Beef Cattle ◽

Production System ◽

Production Systems ◽

Mechanistic Models ◽

Cattle Production ◽

Life Cycle Assessments ◽

System Models ◽

Beef Cattle Production ◽

Farm System

Abstract A model is a tool used to study the dynamics of a system when investigations on the system itself are difficult because of scope, scale, sensitivity, or other complexities. Beef cattle production in the United States is at least a 2- to 4-phase process, consisting of economic, social, environmental, and biological relationships. As such, modeling is a logical strategy to handle many research questions focused on systems responses of beef cattle production systems. There are a number of modeling tools that can be used to research beef cattle production settings, including but not limited to: nutrient requirement models, pasture models, farm system models, and life cycle assessments. Life cycle assessments are the broadest category of models and typically fall under the umbrella of static, deterministic, empirical models that encompass the entirety of the beef production system from manufacture of the inputs through production of the outputs. There are a number of life cycle assessments of beef cattle production systems and comparison of the outcome of these models is a strategy to discern how changes in one aspect of the production system affect all downstream processes. Farm system models can assess an individual economic enterprise or an entirety of a beef production system and typically are dynamic, mechanistic models of the interactions between cattle and their external environments. Several researchers have also established deterministic, empirical farm system models, or hybrids of these two model types. Pasture models can be independent of or tightly linked with farm system models. Most pasture models are dynamic, mechanistic models; however, deterministic, empirical models also exist. Pasture models typically seek to model plant/soil/water interactions. Finally, animal response models and nutrient requirement models can be used to represent animal/feed/management interactions. These models can be dynamic or static, deterministic or mechanistic.

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Reproductive Performance of Beef Cattle Raised Under SPR Program in Tegal Regency

Buletin Peternakan ◽

10.21059/buletinpeternak.v44i1.46127 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Aji Gunawan ◽

Akhmad Sodiq ◽

Krismiwati Muatip ◽

Novie Andri Setianto

Keyword(s):

Beef Cattle ◽

Reproductive Performance ◽

Production System ◽

Production Systems ◽

Nutrition Management ◽

Central Java ◽

Quantitative Design ◽

Farmer Groups ◽

Spss Software ◽

Analyze Data

The purpose of this research was to assess the reproductive performance of beef cattle based on different production systems. Survey research was carried out in Margasari Subdistrict, Tegal Regency, Central Java Province, in 13 farmer groups (a total of 188 breeders and 557 beef cattle) who took shelter in the SPR Program The qualitative and quantitative design framework is used to obtain comprehensive data. The questionnaire was used to get data and respondents determined by census method. SPSS software is used to analyze data. The results showed that 38.46% of farmer groups implemented a crop-livestock-system (CLS), 30.77% of farmer groups implemented a livestock-forestry system (LFS), and 30.77% of farmer groups implemented a crop-livestock-forestry-system (CLFS) in producing beef cattle. The results of the present study were significantly (P<0.05) there were differences in each reproductive performance parameter (BCS, S / C, CR, CI, and CC), which was observed in each beef production system (CLFS, CLS, and LFS). The results of this study also provide an overview of the simultaneous effects on the application of the production system to the reproductive performance of beef cattle. Although there has been certain variation between the production systems, the reproductive performance of the observed beef cattle has not been satisfactory. Improving nutrition management in cattle is needed to realize successful reproductive performance.

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Kinerja dan Perbaikan Sistim Produksi Peternakan Sapi Potong Berbasis Kelompok di Pedesaan

Jurnal Agripet ◽

10.17969/agripet.v14i1.1206 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 56-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Akhmad Sodiq ◽

Nur Hidayat

Keyword(s):

Beef Cattle ◽

Group Dynamics ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Production System ◽

Production Systems ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Development Program ◽

Cattle Farm ◽

Cattle Farmer

(Performance and improving beef cattle production system of farmer group based in the rural areas)ABSTRACT. The objectives of this study was to determine the performance of beef cattle farm under improved production systems of farmer group in the rural areas. Data were collected from 20 beef cattle farmer groups located in Cilacap, Banyumas, Banjarnegara and Kebumen regencies. Intervension factors such as improved production system including aspects of institutional, banking access, diversification of business, trading, and development programs. Regular reporting, interviews, field observations, and forum group discussion were implemented. Descriptive analysis was applied in this study. Variables focused on livestock production systems improvement, type and performance of development program, social resource potential and group dynamics, productivity levels, and also proposed program and recommendations of action programs. This study revealed that 10% of beef cattle farmer group implementing fattening cattle, and mostly (90%) applying combination of cow-calf operation and fattening. All of the beef cattle farmer group (100%) had a high score of social resources potential, while the group dynamics tend to stable (60%) and increased (40%). Mean of reproduction performance were 2.4 (S/C), 13.7 month (calving interval), and 76.5% (pregnancy rate). In general, BCS ranging from 4 to 7 with the highest score of 6 (45%) and followed by 7 (40%). Follow-up activities for recommendation of the action program could be the Beef Cattle Cluster Development of Farmer Group Based in the Rural Areas.

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Improving the information resource management strategy in the process of modernizing an industrial enterprise

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202125806059 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 258 ◽

pp. 06059

Author(s):

Aleksandr Borovkov ◽

Svetlana Ovchinnikova ◽

Alla Lyamina ◽

Tatyana Zheludkova

Keyword(s):

Resource Management ◽

Production System ◽

Production Systems ◽

Technological Development ◽

The State ◽

Industrial Enterprises ◽

Economic Decisions ◽

Effective System ◽

Strategic Goals ◽

Goals And Objectives

For a more successful formation of industrial production systems, an effective system for managing intellectual capital, knowledge and information is needed. An indispensable condition for the development of modern industry is the creation and use of information and knowledge. Industrial modernization requires an organizational and economic mechanism for resource management. When solving the problems of improving and technological development of production systems of industrial enterprises or business groups, a method for selecting a strategy for managing corporate information resources was developed. It is based on the consequences of economic monitoring of the state of the production system, which provides for the primary processing and assessment of the reliability of the results, creation of alternative predictive scenarios for changes in the state of the external and internal environment of the production system, expression of strategic goals and objectives of modernization, development of target criteria for achieving the results of modernization, alternative competing strategies for information and knowledge management, checking competing strategies against the target criterion, choosing a strategy to be applied in the improvement process. The transition to promising paths is permissible only under the condition of intensive modernization of industrial enterprises, carried out on the basis of those technical and economic decisions that will lead to the development and use of the latest NBIC technologies.

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Persepsi Peternak Sapi Potong Terhadap Budaya Lokal Suku Bugis Terkait Aksesibilitas Pembiayaan

Jurnal Agripet ◽

10.17969/agripet.v17i2.8070 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 132-138

Author(s):

Aslina Asnawi ◽

A. Amidah Amrawaty ◽

Nirwana Nirwana

Keyword(s):

Statistical Analysis ◽

Beef Cattle ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Local Culture ◽

Formal Institutions ◽

Access To Finance ◽

Descriptive Research ◽

South Sulawesi ◽

Cattle Breeders ◽

Descriptive Statistical Analysis

ABSTRAK. Pembiayaan pada peternak sapi potong masih merupakan determinan berkembangnya usaha peternakan.Cukup banyak penilaian yang ditentukan oleh pemberi pinjaman terutama lembaga formal yang menyulitkan peternak untuk mengaksesnya. Namun salah satu penilaian yang melekat pada diri peternak adalah karakter yang baik.Artikel ini menganalisis persepsi peternak sapi potong terhadap budaya lokal suku Bugis dan dikaitkan dengan dengan aksesibilitas pembiayaannya. Hal ini penting mengingat nilai-nilai budaya yang dianut oleh masyarakat sangat menentukan pembentukan karakter seseorang.Karakter perlu diperkuat karena merupakan salah satu hal yang dipertimbangkan oleh pemberi pinjaman untuk menilai apakah debitur layak diberikan kredit atau tidak termasuk peternak. Sementara persyaratan lainnya agak sulit dipenuhi oleh peternak seperti: collateral, capacity, dan capital.Penelitian ini dilakukan di Kabupaten Bone Sulawesi Selatan yang mayoritas suku Bugis.Jumlah peternak yang diwawancarai sebanyak 70 orang.Penelitian ini termasuk penelitian deskriptif dan menggunakan analisis statistik deskriptif. Persepsi peternak terhadap nilai-nilai budaya seperti: kejujuran (alempureng), kecendekiaan (amaccang), kepatutan (asitinajang), keteguhan (agettengeng), usaha (reso) dan harga diri (siri’) adalah sangat positif dan setuju bahwa keenam hal tersebut dianggap sangat menentukan kemampuannya dalam mengakses pembiayaan. Budaya lokal tersebut perlu dijaga, dibina dan diperkuat untuk meningkatkan kepercayaan pemberi pinjaman baik lembaga formal maupun informal sehingga akses pembiayaan dapat meningkat.Keenam nilai-nilai tersebut saling berinteraksi dan menentukan karakter yang melekat pada diri peternak.(Perception of beef cattle breeders to local culture of buginese tribe related financing accessibility)ABSTRACT. Financing on beef cattle farmers is still a determinant of the development of livestock business. Quite a lot of judgments are determined by lenders, especially formal institutions that make it difficult for farmers to access it. But one of the inherent assessment of the breeder's self is a good character. This article analyzes the perception of beef cattle ranchers to the local culture of the Bugis tribe and associated with the accessibility of its financing. This is important because the cultural values adopted by the community are crucial to the formation of a person's character. The characterneeds to be strengthened because it is one of the things considered by the lender to assess whether the debtor is worthy of credit or not including the breeder. While other requirements are rather difficult to be met by breeders such as collateral, capacity, and capital.This research was conducted in Bone Bugis district of South Sulawesi. The number of farmers interviewed as many as 70 people. Research includes descriptive research and using descriptive statistical analysis. Farmers perception of cultural values such as honesty, intellect, propriety, perseverance, hard workandself-esteem are very positive and agree that these six things are considered determine its ability to access financing. The local culture needs to be maintained, nurtured and strengthened to increase the trust of both formal and informal lenders so that access to finance can increase. These values mutually intersect and determine the inherent character of the breeder.

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PRODUCTION, REPRODUCTION OF ACEH AND PESISIR COWS IN INDONESIA: PAPER

10.31219/osf.io/hwpqa ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Laode Muh. Munadi

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Beef Cattle ◽

Production System ◽

Production Systems ◽

Farm Production ◽

Local Resources ◽

Modern System ◽

Strategic Role ◽

Cattle Farming ◽

Positive Results

Farm production system is divided into two types, namely traditional and modern system. The pattern of livestock production system can be done with agricultural efforts are expected to give positive results with increased production. The development of beef cattle farming sector is felt to be increasingly important and has a strategic role. Acceleration of the strengthening of the scale of beef cattle farming business is required financing scheme as it is known to greatly spur the acceleration of the real sector so that it will increase the population of beef cattle and create economic empowerment of rural communities. Increased productivity of beef cattle requires an assessment of the characteristics of production systems based on local resources.

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Ekstraksi TF-IDF untuk Kansei Word dalam Perancangan Interface E-Kinerja

Journal of Information Technology ◽

10.47292/joint.v3i1.44 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 5-16

Author(s):

Tri Sutrisna Bhayukusuma ◽

Ana Hadiana

Keyword(s):

Statistical Analysis ◽

Multivariate Statistical Analysis ◽

Local Governments ◽

The State ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Engineering Method ◽

Kansei Engineering ◽

Multivariate Statistical ◽

Design Elements

E-performance web-based software is used to manage and assess the performance of employees in local government agencies. In the process, some of the local governments racing to create and develop E-performance applications. But there are still many E-performance applications that fail because they don't get a good response from their users in this case the State Civil Apparatus. Then it should be carried out supporting studies in the implementation process of making E-performance applications. One method to determine what is needed by the application of information systems in accordance with what is desired by users emotionally is the Kansei Engineering method. Because through Kansei Engineering can be investigated from various points of view that encourage users to use the information system application. In this research, an application program was created using the Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) algorithm to select and determine several words from a few sentences in an article that will be used as a kansei word. After the screening and selection finally obtained as many as 20 words used as kansei words. A total of 30 participants were involved in this study, namely the State Civil Apparatus in the Government of Bandung City. Furthermore, the results of the questionnaire were processed using multivariate statistical analysis which includes Correlation Coefficient Analysis (CCA), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Factor Analysis (FA) and Partial Least Square (PLS). After passing through multivariate statistical analysis, the main factor of emotion concept in the design of the E-performance interface is obtained, the optimal factor. But there are other factors supporting the concept of emotion as an alternative design in designing the E-performance interface, the Smart factor. So as to obtain recommendations for designing the E-performance interface produced through the Kansei Engineering method approach in the form of a proposed matrix in which there are several design elements based on the "Optimal" emotional concept

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