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<blockquote data-quote="Douglas" data-source="post: 690014" data-attributes="member: 8840"><p>"If you have a 10 year old cow making you money, and you are considering to cull her, what do you thing she will bring? Let's be generous, and say $500. All she would have to do is have one more average calf." </p><p></p><p>There is cost to keep that cow another year so obviously to replace the lost cull money would take two or three years of profitable calves or one calf and she holds her value as a cull. That may be a problem for older cows.</p><p></p><p>The problem with this also is that most people have limited pasture. The decision to keep one old cow is a decision not to keep a young replacement which could be more profitable in the future. </p><p></p><p>If you have unlimited pasture and hay they the correct decision is probably to keep the cow until she drops dead as long as she is having a calf every so often. Most are not in this situation.</p><p></p><p>I agree with you that records help us determine the profitability of a cow but the real error in your original analysis is considering the original purchase price as part of your profitability calculations. That price could have been too much or a real deal, but it has nothing to do with when or if to cull a cow. It does measure the profitability of that cow, but is not helpful in the cull or not cull decision.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Douglas, post: 690014, member: 8840"] "If you have a 10 year old cow making you money, and you are considering to cull her, what do you thing she will bring? Let's be generous, and say $500. All she would have to do is have one more average calf." There is cost to keep that cow another year so obviously to replace the lost cull money would take two or three years of profitable calves or one calf and she holds her value as a cull. That may be a problem for older cows. The problem with this also is that most people have limited pasture. The decision to keep one old cow is a decision not to keep a young replacement which could be more profitable in the future. If you have unlimited pasture and hay they the correct decision is probably to keep the cow until she drops dead as long as she is having a calf every so often. Most are not in this situation. I agree with you that records help us determine the profitability of a cow but the real error in your original analysis is considering the original purchase price as part of your profitability calculations. That price could have been too much or a real deal, but it has nothing to do with when or if to cull a cow. It does measure the profitability of that cow, but is not helpful in the cull or not cull decision. [/QUOTE]
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