Managing the Cow-Calf Business Lectureship

• Summary

  Presentations will be simultaneously delivered in-person and online via a Zoom Webinar.
  
  Having the right tools and correctly handling important decisions is critical to managing a cow-calf business. Managerial decisions that involve number gathering and crunching can be overwhelming. This lectureship provides fundamental skills used by successful ranch managers. You will learn by working through scenarios that include budgeting, determining stocking rate, and marketing calves to managing labor, depreciation, and purchased feed cost. The workshop concludes with a look at sorting good business opportunities from potentially bad deals. Let us help you make sense of the most important managerial decisions in the cow-calf business.

  This lectureship is sponsored by Merck Animal Health.

• Learning Objectives

  • Understand the mission and goals held by ranch ownership
  • Find profit drivers and leverage for making production changes
  • Determine the value of production and marketing decisions
  • Recognize the significance of spreading fixed costs
  • Sort the information needed to make critical decisions and achieve goals

• Instructors

  Clay Mathis, Ph.D. • Director and Endowed Chair • King Ranch^® Institute for Ranch Management
  Rick Machen, Ph.D. • Paul C. Genho Endowed Chair in Ranch Management • King Ranch^® Institute for Ranch Management
  Jason Sawyer, Ph.D. • Associate Professor and Research Scientist • King Ranch^® Institute for Ranch Management
  Tylor Braden • Area Manager-Cattle Operations • King Ranch, Inc.