The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-06-14
HOW 10 AVOID LOSS IN
BEEF CATTLE PRODUCTION


, D. Duke q prominent stockman q
d Northern California. The estimate
Q used in the article have been ap
. dent OF the National Live Stock As
2 ISOLATION. and referred by him to tn
2 Secretary of Agriculture. The fls
! ures given on cattle production
should be of interest to the stock
men of the county.
/? Estimated Cost Of Raising
i Beef Cattle
3 Cost of running q Cow one year
from October to October:
Replacement cost on old cows. de
- probation. $3.50; interest ON $3t
: at s per cent, $40; death loss,
? per cent on $50, 80 cents; taxes. 2s
mills on $50. Is cents; riding and
salt. $500; grazing four months or
} National Forest. ~ cents; grazing
: three months under fence, $500;
u hay for winter. 1 " tons at Sc. $500;
: cost of feeding hay at 81 per ton.
$3.50: bull charges, $3.50; total,
! 1927; estimated value of calf, $50
} pounds at cents. $3.50.
! Cost per calf with a IS per cent
calf crop. $3.50; cost of running q
calf from weaving until to IS
months; interest on cald at per
cent on $3.50, actual value, $40;
death losses, 3 per cent on $3.50.
So cents; taxes, rs mills on $40, SO
cents; riding and salt, $3.50; hay
for winter, three-quarters ton at So.
$3.50; feeding cost at 81 per ton.
rs cents; grazing four months on
National Forest, II cents; grazing
three months on fenced pasture,
$500; total, $3.50; estimated value
at end of year, 900 pounds at 5 cents,
$4,000; increase in value for year,
$3.50.
Cost of running a steer from Is
to 80 months of age:
! Taxes, rs mills on $25, "a cents;
interest on steer, per cent on $50,
$40; death losses, per cent on
$50, 80 cents; riding and salt, $3.50;
hay for winter, 1 ton at IS, $500;
cost of feeding at $1.0O per ton,
$1.00; grazing two months on Ma
tional Forest. u cents; grazing four
months on fenced pasture at $1.00,
$500; total, $17.16; estimated value
of a 950-pound steer at 6 cents,
$500; increase in value for year, j
$27OO. |
Cost of producing two-year-old
steer:
Calf cost, $3.50; yearling cost,
to be added to calf cost, $12.89; T.
two-year-old cost, to be added to
yearling cost, $17.16; total $685.;
average price received for steers in
dist, $50 pounds at cents, $500;
loss, $685..
Better Breeding and Selling Methods
Are Recommended
The above cost of production data .
was compiled recently by the joint
work of three livestock associations I
Of Lake County, Oregon. In my
judgment their estimates are con- ,
and correct as far as car
ried, but their sale estimate is based
only on selling steers and to COM
1lete the estimate accurately, l think
he selling prices of both steers and 7
lows are necessary. In thus carry
ng out the estimate on a basis of
So per cent calf crop and selling the Z
entire increase, at 80 months old,
)ne-half of the number sold each Il
,eing steers and cows, my figures a
how net loss on production of
'14.85 per head as follows: b
Lake county cattlemen's estimate II
ost to raise a 30-months-old COW s.
r steer, $685.; sale price of steer, b
5eight $50 pounds at 6 cents, $57; y
ale price of cow, weight 1000 lbs, c.
t IL cents, $45; total, $4,000; b
verage price per head for COW or b.
teer, $51.00; average loss per head 81
n raising COW or steer, $14.85.
Loss Can Be Stopped.
Although the Lake county cattle
iisers' estimate cost of producing az
30months-old COW or steer shows OF
pproximately a loss of SASS per 10
cad on such production, am con- sc
dent those men can arrange their U.
title raising in way that will stop OF
IS on production and show a posi- '"
lily of a margin of profit. The pc
'nditions necessary to stop loss Sc
ould be to raise an IS per cent %
If crop and well-bred beef steer pr
at will weigh 1850 pounds when co
at 80 months old, and sell
ock cow with calf at side to bring ne
much money as possible, though III
course all barren cows would be pu
and should be sold for beef. ye
My estimate for correction of loss
as follows: pr
Cost, care of COW 1 year, October re'
October, $23.27; cost, care of 100
VS., 1 year, October to October, ou
,327.00; cost per calf, If raised
per cent calf crop, $27.37; cost, POI
re of calf until one year old, pei
2.89; cost, care yearling until 80
,nths old, $17.16; total cost to au
Sc steer or COW to 80 months old, ma
7.42; sale, 30-months-old steer, we
light 1850 pounds at 6 cents, pu,
3 .00 sale, COW with calf at side,
$50; total, $118.50; average SELL pul
price for steer or COW and calf, nay
).25; average cost to raise steer at
cow and calf, $57.42; margin for NO
fit, $1.S3. nev
Savings is Pointed as
Adding the estimated SASS per selV
ID loss on production to the $1.8S the
rgin for profit shows a saving of the
'.68 per head each year for the wit
tie raiser carrying out the cor hav
tons l suggest viii