The purpose of this work is to prove and develop the principal methods of increasing beef production on the basis of application of pasturing technology with subsequent intensive feeding of different breeds of bulls for two months and to calculate the relative economic efficiency of both cycles of summer keeping of the young cattle on the mountain pastures and in the conditions of the complex. During the whole time of grazing the bulls had an access to the water source. As well, they were given feeding concentrates in bad weather, when the animals grazed badly and did not eat till full. Salt in wooden feeders constantly lay in the cattle camp. The cattle received chalk together with the salt. Upon returning from the mountain pastures, those bulls of both breeds which were not intended for intensive feeding have been implemented at the meat in the amount of 40 heads and their average live weight was: the Kalmyk – 416 kg; brown Swiss Breed – 401 kg. The bulls in the amount of 42 heads that might not be sold for slaughtering were put on intensive feeding for two months in the conditions of the complex. It is established that the use of mountain-pasture keeping of young cattle is a very effective activity in cattle breeding. Carrying out the final intensive feeding in a complex or a farm for 2 months after not intensive feeding on mountain pastures is an economically - effective measure.

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