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<blockquote data-quote="HerefordSire" data-source="post: 690909" data-attributes="member: 4437"><p><em>Ethics aside temporarily, our principal objective should be to make profit. Making money depends on health of the herd. Health is probably our highest priority of all. The more money we make, the more money a vet will make. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>If we are running 500 head and the bill is only $2K for a visit, and you have ten visits over a couple of years, there should be some type of economic justification just for sanity checks in return for the $20K. If the sale prices of cattle are fixed by the market, many of us have to accept a ceiling price. If drought conditions or a recession hits us, then it could throw many other line items out of whack which we have to be compensated for. On the other hand, if we owned 10 head, and the vet bill was $100 for ten visits over a couple of year period, many of us could handlle $1K in a dought and recession in a price ceiling environment. Therefore, if the percentages of vet payment are the same regardless of herd size and quality, a drought or price ceilings or recession, magnify issues much more when managing more head. </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HerefordSire, post: 690909, member: 4437"] [i]Ethics aside temporarily, our principal objective should be to make profit. Making money depends on health of the herd. Health is probably our highest priority of all. The more money we make, the more money a vet will make. If we are running 500 head and the bill is only $2K for a visit, and you have ten visits over a couple of years, there should be some type of economic justification just for sanity checks in return for the $20K. If the sale prices of cattle are fixed by the market, many of us have to accept a ceiling price. If drought conditions or a recession hits us, then it could throw many other line items out of whack which we have to be compensated for. On the other hand, if we owned 10 head, and the vet bill was $100 for ten visits over a couple of year period, many of us could handlle $1K in a dought and recession in a price ceiling environment. Therefore, if the percentages of vet payment are the same regardless of herd size and quality, a drought or price ceilings or recession, magnify issues much more when managing more head. [/i] [/QUOTE]
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