Input costs in NE Texas

[rynophiliac]

Hey guys I'm wondering about what the input costs are in NE Texas area? I've had my eye on the area for awhile and coming from AZ I'm sure my numbers are going to be way different. Here in AZ I make about $45,000 profit per 100 head or $450/head. I would imagine this is way different in NE Texas?

 

[Caustic Burno]

Hey guys I'm wondering about what the input costs are in NE Texas area? I've had my eye on the area for awhile and coming from AZ I'm sure my numbers are going to be way different. Here in AZ I make about $45,000 profit per 100 head or $450/head. I would imagine this is way different in NE Texas?

My records have averaged a 1.50 a day to keep a cow standing in the pasture over the last few years. Roughly 550 bucks a year if your truthful with your book keeping.

 

[rynophiliac]

Hey guys I'm wondering about what the input costs are in NE Texas area? I've had my eye on the area for awhile and coming from AZ I'm sure my numbers are going to be way different. Here in AZ I make about $45,000 profit per 100 head or $450/head. I would imagine this is way different in NE Texas?

My records have averaged a 1.50 a day to keep a cow standing in the pasture over the last few years. Roughly 550 bucks a year if your truthful with your book keeping.

Caustic Burno,

What are you spending most of your money on? My biggest expenses out here in AZ are day labor, fuel, equipment repair and hay.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Just a sharp pencil if it goes to the operation its charged to the cow if not you are just BSing yourself. Before this crazy bump in prices that is now correcting the national average according to article in Beef was 100 dollars head profit I believe that.
With calves averaging 800 bucks you are looking at 250 a head that is pretty darn good and a heck of a lot more than historically.
If you are not charging the cattle for everything taxes, fuel,hay, fertilizer,etc you have welfare cattle.
Hay alone will be a chunk with all the fertilize inputs lucky if can get it for under 50 a roll. When I rolled my own I had 40 a roll in fertilize and fuel alone.

 

[rynophiliac]

Out here in the west it is a totally different world, the cows take care of themselves for the most part. My cost is mostly labor, fuel and equipment. We use only a little hay for weaning. I don't count my own labor though I should. Have yet to fertilize my desert! lol. I have mostly old equipment but do have some repair costs. I'd love to see a breakdown though of where all that money is going I wonder if the article mentioned that, I'm gonna try to look that up. Are you feeding hay in the winter? I figured Texas was far enough south that you wouldn't need to.

 

[Caustic Burno]

You need to figure four 4x5 round bales per cow to winter.
That is 200 bucks right there
Our winters are harder than most realize on cattle with almost constant rain.
Dun posted a chart on here one time with our temps and rain it was like the requirements for cows in much colder climates.
Your cows would fall apart and almost starve to death before acclimated to our grass.
You said east Texas, we have a rule you can move cows west of IH45
you can't move east.

 

[rynophiliac]

I couldn't find that article you mentioned but I did find a per cow breakdown from 2012: http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/ ... operation/