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Dayton, IA | 16c per head per day seems high for just depreciation and interest. Hard to compare numbers unless you get down to lots of details but I figure 10c for machinery including maintenance and fuel, 10 c for facilities, 10c for labor, 10c for bedding, bedded barns. Paid for outdoor lots you could have less in facility cost and more in machinery. You could cut your labor and machinery cost moving to one location but probably increase your facility cost to build new at one location. I consider manure spreader a row crop cost of fertilizer. You have no tractor cost included anywhere. Do you use a bale processor or box scraper for cleaning pens? Number of cattle makes a difference too. 700 spaces selling maybe 1100 per year or 700 total head sold for the year. I would say wear is not linear with head. An extra load per day to me seems like more wear than more lbs in one load. 2 full loads maybe less wear than 4 partials. Just depends on load size vs cattle numbers and how to be efficient. Having a shop with tools, repair skills, time to make repairs let’s you run cheaper equipment but costs more in overhead and labor. | |
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Equipment cost for feeding fat cattle
