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• Beef Production System


  • Adds body weight to recently weaned calves
  • Cattle are fed until they reach market weight
  • Produces feeder calves for further feeding
• A cow will calve either a female or male calf
• Cow-calf Operation


  • To produce stockers, feeders and replacement stocks
  • Uses grade of Philippine cows and pure bred or high-grade bulls
  • Extensive use of native pastures and minimum outlay for supplemental feed/concentrates
  • May be integrated with orchard or coconut plantation
  • Involves selling calves that are weaned, usually seven to eight months of age
• Cow-calf Operation


  • Jadeco Farms (Masbate Cattle Ranch)
• Breeder Farm Operation


  • To produce large number of quality breeder stocks
  • Requires large amount of capital for buying purebred animals and equipment
  • Skills and sound judgment is necessary for the success of the operation
• Breeder Farm Operation


  • Juliana's Cattle Farm (JCF), Brgy. Anus, San Jose, Batangas
  • Rancho Consuelo Farm, Brgy. Canlubang, Laguna
• Growing Fattening Operation


  • To provide the market with fattened cattle for meat consumption
  • Requires very little land area (uses cut and carry system/zero grazing)
  • Turn over of capital is faster
  • Uses high-energy feeds to give the cattle a better "finish"
• Classification of Beef Production Systems


  • Extensive System
  • Intensive System
  • Integration into Crop
  • Backyard Cattle Raising
• Backyard/Small holder


  • Constitutes 93-94% of the total cattle population in the country
  • Force feeding (supa or supak) of feed mixture is a common practice among backyard cattle raisers
• Force Feeding (Supa/Supak Method)


  1. Proper animal position and application

  2. Ingredients: 15-25 kgs fresh "ipil-ipil", 15-19 liters of water, 1 kg rice bran, 100 grams salt or molasses

  3. Materials: Basin, Bamboo (30 cm long & 6 cm wide)
• Extensive System


  • Popularly known as ranching
  • Animals in this system are maintained in a vast tract open lands
• Extensive System

  • Siquijor Native Cattle (DA-Ubay Stock Farm)
• Intensive System


  • Animals are confined and are fed on a cut and carry basis
• Integration into Crop


  • Animals are maintained by feeding them by-products of agricultural crops or industrial wastes
  • A cow-calf project may also be done in combination with crop or plantation agriculture