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cost of raising heifer to be bred vs buying bred cow
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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 742074" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>The economists will tell you it depends on the cattle cycle - - sell high priced heifers and retain cheap ones. :shock: Hard to argue with that, except that we don't seem to have a cattle cycle any more.</p><p></p><p>The analyst will tell you it depends on cash flow, net present value, and bonus deprecation. Easy to get confused on all the calculations and assumptions required. :???: </p><p></p><p>Harlan Hughes likes to do cost budgets. His February 2010 Beef magazine cost projection was exactly $1,012 for a bred heifer in fall of 2010. Factor in some more culling or opens, and the cost of a second calver gets ugly.</p><p></p><p>I can do it for less than Harlon, but bred heifers are also worth less in Minnesota. Commercial blacks in groups of 10 to 20 head were going for $865 each here last November, and have gone up some since. I am told they are about to $1 a pound in the Dakotas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 742074, member: 1715"] The economists will tell you it depends on the cattle cycle - - sell high priced heifers and retain cheap ones. :shock: Hard to argue with that, except that we don't seem to have a cattle cycle any more. The analyst will tell you it depends on cash flow, net present value, and bonus deprecation. Easy to get confused on all the calculations and assumptions required. :???: Harlan Hughes likes to do cost budgets. His February 2010 Beef magazine cost projection was exactly $1,012 for a bred heifer in fall of 2010. Factor in some more culling or opens, and the cost of a second calver gets ugly. I can do it for less than Harlon, but bred heifers are also worth less in Minnesota. Commercial blacks in groups of 10 to 20 head were going for $865 each here last November, and have gone up some since. I am told they are about to $1 a pound in the Dakotas. [/QUOTE]
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