Individual purchase weight and price were recorded, and steers were assigned USDA feeder cattle grades of Large (LG), Medium (MED), or Small (SM) frame size and Number 1 or Number 2 muscle thickness by the same official USDA market graders. Steers were grazed on rye pasture and were then...
Feeder cattle characteristics; Relationship of feeder cattle frame size to live weight at a choice grade end point; Relationship of feeder cattle flesh condition to final live weight and carcass grade traits.GronaA.D.TatumJ.D.BelkK.E.Smith...
Explanatory feeder cattle basis models were developed for 16 different Virginia markets byseason, futures contract month, weight, lot size, sex, breed and USDA grade differentials. Themodels are more disaggregated and explain up to 80 percent more of feeder cattle basisvariation than any previous re...
The Effect of USDA Cattle on Feed Reports on Feeder Cattle Futures Prices. Paper presented at Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting - Dhuyvetter, Schroeder, et al. - 1997Dhuyvetter, Kevin C., Ted C. Schroeder, and Joseph L. Parcell, "The Effect ofUSDA Cattle on Feed ...