Can you make cull cows a better profit center?

摘要

COW CULLING TYPICALLY produces poor returns for many ranches, but it could be made more profitable. It's a matter of weighing your costs versus potential returns, combined with better market timing.First, it's generally accepted that cow sales make up only 10% to 20% of ranch income on most cow-calf operations, despite the fact that cows typically make up more than half the livestock inventory. We recently addressed one remedy for this with the story "Consider the no-depreciation cow-calf operation," which is still available online at BeefProducer. com.