Beef cattle

journal articles

7

conference papers

19

research projects

14

graduate theses

5

partner organizations

5

years of published work

2000–2026

• At a farm visit (Open photo)
• A red beef bull in a pen at the beef cattle seminar (Open photo)

• Which crosses suit tropical beef production?

  Heterosis and breed effects in Thai Native × Brahman crosses, pre-weaning growth and fertility of Angus × Brahman and Angus × Red Sindhi crossbreds, and direct and maternal genetic effects in a multibreed beef population.

• What drives carcass value and price?

  Carcass traits and pricing under a cooperative system, carcass weight, dressing percentage and marbling score, beef cuts of fattened Charolais crossbreds, protein and collagen in dry-aged beef, and non-carcass components.

• Can a phone camera estimate a steer's weight?

  Deep learning with mobile imaging for automated conformation indices and weight prediction, compared with traditional regression and other machine-learning methods.

• What is the genetic potential of Thai indigenous cattle?

  Genetic parameters and trends for birth and weaning weight in a Northeastern Thai indigenous line, and growth hormone gene polymorphism and pre-weaning growth.

Methods named in this theme's titles: Crossbreeding & heterosis (10) · Carcass & meat quality (6) · Farm economics & indices (4) · Multibreed evaluation (2) · Genetic parameters & animal models (2) · Deep learning & computer vision (2) · Genomic-polygenic evaluation (1) · Candidate genes & markers (1)

• 2023M.S.

  การจำแนกความผันแปรและความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างซากชิ้นส่วนย่อยของโคเนื้อลูกผสมที่ถูกเลี้ยงดูแบบประณีตภายใต้สภาพร้อนชื้นในประเทศไทย

  Rapeepan Soontran

• 2019M.S.

  Carcass and non-carcass components of fattened beef cattle

  Supparat Bunsuk

• 2018M.S.

  Carcass quality of fattening charolais crossbred steers and holstein crossbred steers

  Chaowalit Pluemjai

• 2016M.S.

  Cost and benefit from cow-calf production in commercial beef production

  Jirayut Khemsawat

• 2008M.S.

  Comparison of models for estimating genetic effects for birth and weaning weights in crossbred cattle among Thai native, Brahman and Charolais

  Arraya Jeanmas

• Beef Cluster Cooperative (Max Beef) (opens in a new tab)

  Thailand

  Carcass and pricing data on 5,531 cattle from 217 farms for joint research (2026).

• Loong Chow Farm

  Thailand · 2004

  Adviser on Brahman and crossbred beef genetics and production, Suphanburi.

• Smile Beef Co., Ltd.

  Thailand

  Beef field partner; its manager joined the buffalo and beef panel at the 63rd KU Annual Conference (2025).

• Farmeral Technology Co., Ltd. (opens in a new tab)

  Thailand

  Farm data company: Farmeter apps for buffalo and beef farms and cooperatives, and a farm assistant on LINE.

• University of Florida (opens in a new tab)

  USA · 1996

  Since 1996: 52 papers with University of Florida co-authors, many with Prof. Mauricio Elzo; a KU–UF cooperative agreement (2007–2021); courtesy faculty 2005–2023.