Does Lee advocate using RFID tags and working with feedyards and packers that can supple individual feedyard performance and same at packing plant. If fyd captures and individual weight at initial processing that weight can be converted to an estimated carcass weight by equations that meat scientists use… then the individual carcass weight can be used to find the individual fyd carcass gain. Thus both a fyd and plant report card is tied to the individual’s parentage. I would assume Lee would agree the UHF RFID tags would be preferable.
Does Lee advocate using RFID tags and working with feedyards and packers that can supple individual feedyard performance and same at packing plant. If fyd captures and individual weight at initial processing that weight can be converted to an estimated carcass weight by equations that meat scientists use… then the individual carcass weight can be used to find the individual fyd carcass gain. Thus both a fyd and plant report card is tied to the individual’s parentage. I would assume Lee would agree the UHF RFID tags would be preferable.
Big report to digest - but found this helpful all things considered - https://www.afpc.tamu.edu/research/publications/710/cattle.pdf
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