Agri 22- Lecture 1 [Beef Cattle Production]

August 15, 2025

Beef

What is the meat from cattle?

-1.8%

What is the average growth rate of the Carabao inventory?

-0.6%

What is the average growth rate of the Cattle inventory?

• Chicken

• Duck

• Swine

• Goat

• Cattle

• Carabao

What is the highest to lowest ranking of poultry and livestock inventory?

6-9 months

How many months to produce a calf?

Beef Cattle

What makes up the 99% of the cattle inventory?

Dairy Cattle

What makes up the 1% of the cattle inventory?

• Backyard

• Commercial

What are the 2 Cattle Population Farm type?

Backyard Farm

What farm type makes up 94.7% of the Cattle Population?

Commercial Farm

What farm type makes up 5.3% of the Cattle Population?

• Uses native or upgraded cattle breeds

• Usually tether their animals in nearby fields

• Practice cut-and-carry method during RAINY season

• Simple barns to protect the animal from the sun

U.U.P.S

What are the 4 characteristics of a Backyard Farm?

• Feedlot/ Fatten up uses Intensive System which relies on external outputs

• Housing and other facilities to confine the herd

• Feedlot uses CORN FODDER as roughage

• Supplement their stocks with concentrate feeds
  
  F.H.F.S

What are the 4 characteristics of a Commercial Farm?

• Smallhold

• Semi-commercial

• Commercial

What are the 3 latest farm type?

• Ilocos Region

• Central Visayas

• CARAGA

(Highest to Lowest)

What are the 3 Smallhold regions?

• CALABARZON

• Central Luzon

• CARAGA

What are the 3 Semi-commercial regions?

• Bicol Regon

• Central Luzon

• Northern Mindanao

What are the 3 Commercial regions?

32.98%

How much percentage does the smallhold farm hold?

45.79%

How much percentage does the semi-commercial farm hold?

57.47%

How much percentage does the commercial farm hold?

• Ilocos Region

• CALABARZON

• SOCCSKSARGEN

• Western Visayas

• Northern MIndanao

The top 5 regions

2.58 million

How much are the heads per year from 2021-2021?

3kg

How much per capita annual consumption for beef?

12kg

How much per capita annual consumption for chicken?

15kg

How much per capita annual consumption for swine?

• Increasing volume of importation

• Fluctuating gross of supply

What is the 2 current condition for supply and demand of beef cattle production?

• Transforming low quality and fibrous feeds to high quality protein

• Abundant supply of crop residues especially in small farms

• Favorable climate for Fodder production

• Availability of technologies for increased productivity

• Increasing demand for beef; income elasticity of demand

T.A.F.A.I

What are the advantages of beef production?

• Low farm gate prices

• High retail prices

What are the constraints of beef cattle production?

• Land Conversion

• Availability of forages to poor nutrition

• Lack of quality breeders

• Peace and order
  
  L.A.L.P

What are the challenges of beef cattle production?

• Build population base through well-defined breeding program

• Increase animal productivity through improved husbandry practices

• Promote appropriate feeding and encourage utilization of non-conventional feedstuffs

• Improve marketing/pricing system

• Review policies on importation and credit system

• Effective strict quarantine procedures & efficient disease control/ eradication programs

B.I.P.I.R.E

What are the interventions for beef cattle production?

84.4%

How much percentage does smallhold farm account of total country’s total cattle inventory?

Imports

Beef supplied in the country is heavily dependent on?

Eyeball estimate

What is the wrong and common method of cattle pricing?

Beef cattle industry

What is one of the least developed among that livestock and poultry industry in the country?