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<blockquote data-quote="Running Arrow Bill" data-source="post: 641619" data-attributes="member: 9"><p>IMHO, several issues here:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1. Are you wanting a "Business Plan" or a "Cattle Feeding Plan"? <br /> 2. If a "Cattle Feeding Plan" then unless you are planning to operate a computerized beef or dairy operation then "in the mouth, process food, excrete waste products" is a crap shoot at best. Too many variables to predict statistically.<br /> 3. If you are talking about a "Business Plan", then your program plan, goals/objectives, advertising and marketing plan, infrastructure issues, overhead, operating costs, etc., would be self-evident from your "Chart of Accounts" (if you don't know what a C of A is, contact an accountant).<br /> 4. One cannot accurately use cost of feed, etc., X time to = finish weight & quality & return on investment. However, if you have a sophisticated and computerized "feedlot type operation" then you may be able to calculate all this with maybe ~ 90% probability. Otherwise, there are many statistical variables that one probably cannot control in a feeding experiment.<br /> 5. One cannot ever accurately control or predict future market conditions and/or prices of any commodity.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Bottomline: One cannot take X amount of starting weight times X amount of food times "time" and safely and accurately "predict" the outcome in weight and/or costs and/or profits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running Arrow Bill, post: 641619, member: 9"] IMHO, several issues here: [list]1. Are you wanting a "Business Plan" or a "Cattle Feeding Plan"? 2. If a "Cattle Feeding Plan" then unless you are planning to operate a computerized beef or dairy operation then "in the mouth, process food, excrete waste products" is a crap shoot at best. Too many variables to predict statistically. 3. If you are talking about a "Business Plan", then your program plan, goals/objectives, advertising and marketing plan, infrastructure issues, overhead, operating costs, etc., would be self-evident from your "Chart of Accounts" (if you don't know what a C of A is, contact an accountant). 4. One cannot accurately use cost of feed, etc., X time to = finish weight & quality & return on investment. However, if you have a sophisticated and computerized "feedlot type operation" then you may be able to calculate all this with maybe ~ 90% probability. Otherwise, there are many statistical variables that one probably cannot control in a feeding experiment. 5. One cannot ever accurately control or predict future market conditions and/or prices of any commodity.[/list] Bottomline: One cannot take X amount of starting weight times X amount of food times "time" and safely and accurately "predict" the outcome in weight and/or costs and/or profits. [/QUOTE]
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