Summary
Bench-marking is something we should all be striving for. Every farmer should be able to check out his or her costs, whether they are variable costs such as feed and bedding or fixed costs including labour and machinery overheads.
Obviously silage and other forage costs are usually much more costly to the upland or hill unit, where much of the requirements have to be brought in.See the full content of this document
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Don't Fall in the Tunnel Vision Trap
But as long as we compare like with like, lowland farms finishing their own home bred cattle may be close to cost structure with medium size beef finishing units.
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