Factors Affecting Beef Cow-Herd Costs, Production, and Profits

Ruslyn Ramsey, Damona Doye (damona.doye@okstate.edu), Clement Ward, James M. McGrann, Lawrence L. Falconer and Stanley J. Bevers

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2005, vol. 37, issue 01, 9

Abstract: Cow-herd standardized performance analysis (SPA) data for Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico were used to determine economic factors affecting cow-herd costs, production, and profitability. Total cost was defined as the financial cost associated with raising a calf through the weaning stage; production, as pounds weaned per exposed female; and profits, as a rate of return on assets. Variable affecting one of more performance measures included herd size; pounds of feed fed; real estate, machinery, and breeding-stock investments; calving percentage; death loss; and breeding-season length. Management variables were especially important for financial costs and profitability of the cow-herd operation.

Keywords: Production; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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