Cost-Cutting Consultants

摘要

Experts, like the Noble Foundation's Steve Swigert and Missouri beef specialist Jack Whittier, teach ranchers how best to use their range resources. Cutting costs will probably be the single most important factor in whether you'll be able to stay in business during this down cattle cycle. It sounds so simple. Yet, less than 10% of producers at cattle meetings ag economist Steve Swigert attends can tell you their unit cost of production. "People have records, but often they're in shoeboxes. And I don't call that recordkeeping," says Swigert, who actively works with the Standardized Performance Analysis (SPA) program through Oklahoma's Noble Foundation at Ardmore.