Extension faculty have been educating cow-calf producers about value-added calf management programs and the premiums … available at auction from these management practices for years. Despite these efforts, producers express doubt regarding the … likelihood of premiums and the profitability of value-added management practices. We use matching pairs to calculate the …

The paper presents the existing situation on the beef market in Romania, compared to the situation encountered in the … 2015-2020 and reflects the fact that Romania is not among the main cattle breeders and beef producers in the European Union … the decrease was 8.67%, slaughtered cattle - 36.64%, beef production - 27.61%, and in the category of cattle meat value …