This article is the final article in a three-part series with Progressive Cattle magazine, published in March 2021. Be sure to read part one “Bragging rights require knowing costs” and part two “Unit cost of production expressions“. By: Rick Machen, PhD, and Stan Bevers Stocker cattle operators have been described as the cattle industry’s shock absorber between cow-calf producers and feedlot …
This article is part two in a three-part series with Progressive Cattle magazine, published in February 2021. Be sure to read part one “Bragging rights require knowing costs” and part three “Evaluating stocker cattle cost of production and profitabilty“. By: Rick Machen, PhD, and Stan Bevers In the first article in this series of three, we discussed the difference between unit …
This article is part one in a three-part series with Progressive Cattle magazine, published in January 2021. Be sure to read part two “Unit cost of production expressions” and part three “Evaluating stocker cattle cost of production and profitabilty“. By: Rick Machen, PhD, and Stan Bevers Average calf weaning weight and market price are popular topics for discussions among cattle producers. …