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Profit per head all beef set-ups

  • 26-10-2015 8:34am
    #1
    CloughCasey1
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    Seeing the suckler profit thread had a good start I think this thread will get a good few replies. This is really only for beef enterprises. Ye dairy lads already know where every cent goes and the vast majority of ye maximise every last square foot of ground ye have. A lot could be learned from ye by suckler/dry stock farmers and I know by reading yer threads I have learnt a power on getting the most out of grass. Question is simply what is your set up and what does it leave you per head? I know with mine I have to get a certain amount on top of what I paid for an animal to show profit. For example a suck born nov 14 that I paid €250 for. If I sell the following November without a winter I need to get to 380kg €750. If kept for winter and sold in April I need to get to 540kg €1150. Any weanling I buy usually feb/march/April calves in August or September for no more than €750 i will sell the following July and hope to get €1350. The one thing I notice is that the plainer sucks will leave more than the well made weanlings but obviously there is more risk involved. I will nearly always get the set prices for the sucks but on a bad day a store might fall to €1200 if there is a poor crowd in the mart or drop in factory prices. On the above I don't know the exact profit per head as I have spent the last 2&half years getting all reseeding, fencing, 1acre paddocks,4 bay shed (halved with FIL), water in each paddock, machinery, etc etc so costs would be higher. I have 9acres and will max at 30 in winter with two bays full and 10 sucks. The twenty will go to grass early march and 10 go to mart in April to allow new sucks into their rotation. 10 Weanlings will go to mart in late July and buy in more from then on and would usually get 20 or so bales while sucks are growing. From 1st nov I will be keeping a log on all incoming and outgoing so will know more by this time next year. Just interested to see what other lads are doing.


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  • #2
    kevthegaff
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    Cousins have a large beef enterprise and say that rearing calves fresians is the most profitable


  • #3
    CloughCasey1
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    kevthegaff wrote: »
    Cousins have a large beef enterprise and say that rearing calves fresians is the most profitable

    Id believe that. If I had enough ground I'd be doing same. I would buy one or two of them each yr but I need an animal that ill sell in mart over factory finish at 24mts plus. Has to catch the eye in mart.


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