Beef cattle farming is an economic activity aimed at producing beef cattle that involves rearing cattle of different sexes, ages and body weights by applying intensive or less intensive feeding programmes in order to provide income and also a profit for the farmers. The income...

It’s well known that high producing dairy cows can only keep up rapidly increasing milk production and have enough energy for maintenance by losing bodyweight in the post-partum period. The cow is not able to fulfil the energy requirement of steeply increasing milk production at...