Dos Santos, Alecsandro; Anderson, John D.; Vann, Rhonda C. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 40 (2008) 01
Real-time ultrasound information taken on beef heifers prior to backgrounding is used to develop a logit model to aid heifer retention decisions. The value of ultrasound data is calculated as the difference in certainty equivalents between a decision rule incorporating ultrasound information and...