Alternative Retention and Marketing Strategies for Cull Beef Cows

Kellie Raper, Zakou Amadou, Jon T. Biermacher, Billy Cook, Devlon Ford and Clement Ward

Journal of the ASFMRA, 2013, vol. 2013, 20

Abstract: Cull cows are a revenue source that gets relatively little attention for cow-calf producers with respect to marketing strategy. This three-year study compares alternative marketing strategies with the traditional practice of marketing spring-calving cull cows in the fall immediately after weaning. Cull cows were randomly assigned to either a pasture or low-cost dry-lot feeding program. Results favor the lower cost, pasture-based feeding program with spring marketing over fall marketing. Low-cost maintenance coupled with seasonal increases in slaughter cow prices beyond culling combined to increase net returns for retaining and feeding cows on native pasture for about a three-month period.

Keywords: Productivity; Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.161500

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