Ag Alternatives - Beef Cow-Calf Production
Joan Sinclair Petzen, Farm Business Management
Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops
July 5, 2013
The first summarizes the costs and returns of a cow-calf enterprise using a feeding program of hay and pasture, and the second summarizes the costs and returns of a cow-calf enterprise using a feeding program of silage and pasture. There are several different ways of starting a commercial beef cow-calf herd:
- buying heifers of either weaning or breeding age
- purchasing an entire cow herd
- purchasing individual cows from established herds.
From Penn State Extension's Ag Alternatives Fact Sheets: Beef Cow - Calf Production
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