How much does it cost to raise cattle? A detailed analysis of the farming cost structure
Based on the current market conditions in the farming industry, buying a calf costs about 3000 yuan, and the total daily feed cost for one cow is 18 yuan. Water and electricity fees, quarantine fees, disinfection fees, diagnosis and treatment fees, and other expenses also require about one hundred yuan per cow per year.
Based on the current market conditions in the farming industry, buying a calf costs about 3000 yuan. The larger the calf, the shorter the farming cycle, but the selling price will be lower, leaving little profit, so before choosing a cattle breed, you also need to decide at what size to start farming. Let us now look at the feed costs required for beef cattle, which are mainly based on corn silage stalks, distillers' grains, dried corn stalks, wheat straw, peanut straw, sweet potato vines, rice straw, and so on. The purchase price of the above roughage is about 0.3 yuan per jin, so most farming households need 20 jin of roughage per day; in addition, beef cattle also need fine feed each day equal to 1% of their body weight. Using an average value, that is, calculating each head at 800 jin of body weight, the consumption is 8 jin of fine feed, costing about 12 yuan per day. Calculated this way, the total daily feed cost for one cow is 18 yuan, so the feed cost for one cow over 10 months is 18*300=5400 yuan.
As for other expenses, there are also water and electricity fees, quarantine fees, disinfection fees, diagnosis and treatment fees, and so on. Although the price of each individual item is not very high, when the four are added together, each cow still requires an additional cost of about one hundred yuan per year. Then, according to the data provided above by the editor, everyone can very easily calculate the cost of raising one beef cow, which is about 5500 yuan.
The profit from one beef cow
If each calf can be raised to over 1300 jin before being sent to market, then according to the current market price of 13 yuan per jin, a 1300 jin beef cow can be sold for 16900 yuan. Subtracting 5500, that equals 11400 yuan (including labor costs).