Sale Price Relationships to Performance Characteristics and Genetic Merit in Beef Bulls Sold in Beef Cattle Improvement Sales and Tests in the Southeast USA From 1974 To 2011

Author

Marty Landon Marks

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Parish, Jane

Committee Member

Smith, Trent

Committee Member

Riley, John Michael

Committee Member

Vann, Rhonda

Date of Degree

1-1-2012

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Animal and Dairy Sciences

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Department

Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences

Abstract

Herd sires are an important investment for beef cattle producers in the Southeast United States of America (USA). For producers, bull selection decisions are critical to introduce new and compatible genetics into their cow herd. The impact of bull selection affects the cow herd and many calf crops when heifers by these herd sires are retained for breeding replacements. The objective of this study was to determine the relationships over time between bull sale prices and individual performance and measures of genetic merit for bulls sold in the state of Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina. The study was conducted using data from Beef Cattle Improvement Association (BCIA) and Beef Cattle Improvement Program (BCIP) bull sales from 1974 to 2011. All sales maintained a core set of qualifications. These were used in a hedonic pricing model to analyze their impact on the actual sale price for each bull.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/20525

Comments

Beef Cattle Improvement Association Sales||Hedonic Price Analysis||Beef Bull Sales

Recommended Citation

Marks, Marty Landon, "Sale Price Relationships to Performance Characteristics and Genetic Merit in Beef Bulls Sold in Beef Cattle Improvement Sales and Tests in the Southeast USA From 1974 To 2011" (2012). Theses and Dissertations. 3850.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/3850