Dairy beef-its economic significance in the dairy profit picture

摘要

With regard to the proportion of his/her income that comes from the sale of surplus/salvage/cull cattle (hereinafter referred to as "market cows/bulls"), it's much easier to get the attention of a beef, cow/calf, producer than of a dairy operator, because sale of market cows/bulls represents 16 percent as opposed to 4 percent of sales revenue, respectively (Roeber et al., 2000a). When the milk check constitutes 96 percent of gross farm receipts, not much attention is likely to be paid by dairy operators to improving, or even maintaining, "qualityll of market cows/bulls. Milk yield is a response variable for which increases require inputs that cost money; harvest value is a response variable for which increases require decision-making and time, butnot much, if any, money (Smith et al., 2002). As a result, net profits can accrue with "right choices" and attention-to-detail, with essentially no capital expenditure, if dairy operators resolve to improve the "quality" of their market cows/bulls.