Economic assessments from experimental research trials of feedlot cattle health and performance: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Animal husbandry decisions for feedlot cattle may be based on economic or financial impacts reported from livestock research trials comparing interventions such as health practices or performance technologies. Despite the importance of economic assessments to production management decisions, there are no consensus guidelines for their methods or reporting. Thus, we hypothesized that methods and reporting of economic assessments in the scientific literature are inconsistent. This scoping review describes the types of economic assessments used to evaluate the costs and benefits of interventions in feedlot trials, how measured health and performance outcomes are utilized in economic evaluations, and the completeness of reporting. A structured search was used to retrieve peer-reviewed articles

SUBMITTER: Dixon AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9280984 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature