Cattle adapted to tropical and subtropical environments: social, nutritional, and carcass quality considerations

RF Cooke, CL Daigle, P Moriel, SB Smith… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Beef production needs to increase from 60 million to 130 million tons by 2050 to feed a
growing world population, and 70% of this production increase is expected from beef …

Improving beef progeny performance through developmental programming

P Moriel, EA Palmer, KM Harvey… - Frontiers in Animal …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Maternal nutritional management during gestation appears to modulate fetal development
and imprint offspring postnatal health and performance, via altered organ and tissue …

Impacts of nutritional management during early postnatal life on long-term physiological and productive responses of beef cattle

KM Harvey, RF Cooke, P Moriel - Frontiers in Animal Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Effective early postnatal nutritional management is a crucial component of livestock
production systems, and nutrient manipulation during this period has been shown to exert …

Maternal supplementation of energy and protein, but not methionine hydroxy analog, enhanced postnatal growth and response to vaccination in Bos indicus …

P Moriel, M Vedovatto, EA Palmer… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
A 2-yr study evaluated the growth and postvaccination immune response of beef calves born
from heifers offered no supplementation or pre-and postpartum supplementation of …

Effect of sires' expected progeny difference for scrotal circumference and juvenile ADG on the puberty of crossbred beef heifers

JPR Barroso, MV de Castro Ferraz Junior… - Tropical Animal Health …, 2023 - Springer
The early attainment of puberty in heifers is essential for the profitability of the cow-calf farm.
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of juvenile average daily gain (ADG) and sire's …