Weston Joseph Peschel

Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Steroidal Implants in Beef Cattle: A Review from the U.S. Production Perspective

For decades, beef cattle producers have safely used steroidal implants as a low-cost, highly effective growth technology, delivering improvements in average daily gain (10 to 30%) and feed efficiency (5 to 15%) compared with non-implanted cattle. These improvements stem from incr...