Meat science : publication
Use this enterprise budget as a guide to estimate your production costs and returns when producing alfalfa baleage as a forage crop on Missouri farms.
Use this enterprise budget to plan how to produce, finance and market alfalfa sold as small square or large round hay bales in Missouri. It links to the Missouri Forage Budget Generator spreadsheet.
David R. Jones and William C. Stringer
Food Science and Nutrition Department
This glossary lists terms and phrases beef producers should be familiar with.
Assess beef cattle fat reserves using a 1–9 body condition scoring system to inform feeding and management decisions throughout the production cycle.
Use this budget to estimate costs and returns for a 150-cow confinement dairy (replacements raised on-farm) in Missouri and see input, feed and investment needs.
Use this budget to estimate costs and returns for a 150-cow rotational grazing dairy (replacements raised on-farm) in Missouri, and see input, feed and investment needs.
Use this budget to estimate costs and returns for raising dairy heifers purchased at birth, bred and sold at 24 months in Missouri, and see input and feed needs.
Jeffre D. Firman
Department of Animal Sciences
Editor’s note
The PDF version of this publication includes illustrations.
A beef animal selected for slaughter should be healthy and in thrifty condition. Visit our site to learn about home slaughtering and processing of beef.
Learn about on-pasture egg production and the economics of small- to medium-scale egg-producing farms.
Learn about the economics of producing poultry for meat in mobile houses at a small or medium scale and some common methods used.
The systems concept of beef production incorporates an awareness that there is more to consider in a beef cattle enterprise than simply the level of production. What is most important is the overall efficiency of the enterprise.