ABSTRACT
The 1983 International Stockinen's School Handbooks include more than 200 technical papers presented at this year's Stockmen's School-sponsored by Wlnrock International-by outstanding animal scientists, agribusiness leaders, and livestock producers expert in animal technology, animal management, and general fields relevant to animal agriculture. The Handbooks represent advanced technology in a problem-oriented form readily accessible to livestock producers, operators of family farms, managers of agri-buslnesses, scholars, and students of animal agriculture. The Beef Cattle Science Handbook, the Dairy Science Handbook, the Sheep and Goat Handbook, and the Stud Managers' Handbook each include papers on such general topics as genetics and selection; general anatomy and physiology; reproduction; behavior and animal welfare; feeds and nutrition; pastures, ranges, and forests; health, diseases, and parasites; buildings, equipment, and environment; animal management; marketing and economics (including product processing, when relevant}; farm and ranch business management and economics; computer use in animal enterprises; and production systems. The four Handbooks also contain papers specifically related to the type of animal considered
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|46 pages
THE BEEF INDUSTRY AND ITS HERITAGE
part 2|56 pages
A GLOBAL VIEW OF ANIMAL AGRICULTURE
part 3|70 pages
GENERAL CONCEPTS AFFECTING AGRICULTURE AND THE INDUSTRY
part 4|44 pages
WATER, WEATHER, AND CLIMATE
part 5|80 pages
GENETICS AND SELECTION: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
part 6|76 pages
GENETICS AND SELECTION: U.S. PERSPECTIVES
part 7|56 pages
PHYSIOLOGY AND REPRODUCTION
part 8|68 pages
ANIMAL MANAGEMENT
part 9|98 pages
FEEDS AND NUTRITION
part 10|82 pages
HEALTH, DISEASE, AND PARASITES
part 11|34 pages
MEAT AND MEAT PROCESSING
part 12|82 pages
MARKETING, ECONOMICS, AND FARM BUSINESS
part 13|70 pages
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND USE
part 14|50 pages
FEEDLOT AND RANCH MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
part 15|62 pages
BEEF PRODUCTION IN THE TROPICS
part 16|82 pages
PASTURE, FORAGE, RANGE, AND AGROFORESTRY
part 17|34 pages
ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
part 18|110 pages
ENVIRONMENT, FACILITIES, AND ANIMAL WELFARE