Taking Profits

摘要

"Management isn't just about production; it's about marketing and analyzing the markets," says Dave Delaney, vice president and general manager of ranching operations for King Ranch at Kingsville, TX. "The lesson is that a good manager retains marketing flexibility and options, and looks for buying and selling opportunities." He's referring to the startling results of a study recently completed by the King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management (KRIRM), It reveals that over the past eight years King Ranch has made the equivalent average profit of 300/calf dollar raised by selling those calves and then buying back others to background, stocker and feed. If King Ranch had simply retained ownership in its own calves through its own feedyard, the averageprofit for those eight years would have been 8/head dollar.