Calculate Cost to Carry

[MO-Ruminants]

I want to preface this with "I could be wrong".

Assigned costs per acre / number of head * stocking rate / 365 = daily pasture charge.

How would one who has fluctuating number of head instead of a resident cow herd figure this equation?

 

[gcreekrch]

I want to preface this with "I could be wrong".

Assigned costs per acre / number of head * stocking rate / 365 = daily pasture charge.

How would one who has fluctuating number of head instead of a resident cow herd figure this equation?

Only real way is to determine cow days at year end then do some calculations back to acres.

 

[JParrott]

I want to preface this with "I could be wrong".

Assigned costs per acre / number of head * stocking rate / 365 = daily pasture charge.

How would one who has fluctuating number of head instead of a resident cow herd figure this equation?

Change the fixed costs, number of head, and the number of days from 365 to the amount of days that you had the specific number of head in question. For example - if you ran 65 head for 120 days - figure out your fixed costs for those 120 days and put those numbers into the equation and it'll give you your answer.