How much can you earn raising 10 cattle in a year? Cattle farming profit analysis

Cattle farming carries the lowest risk among general livestock farming operations, but you need to understand breeding techniques and know how to manage the herd. Once you have mastered the techniques, there is no risk. Raising cattle in rural areas has advantageous conditions: you can use crop straw and other materials, which lowers farming costs and increases profit margins. Let's take a look below at how much you can earn raising 10 cattle in a year.

How much does it cost to raise 10 cattle?

1. Pen cost: Generally, a pen for 10 cattle only needs 40 to 50 sq m. You can use an old house or put up a very simple shed, at a cost of about 10,000 yuan, and the cost amortized each year is very low.

2. Calf cost: A improved-breed Simmental calf of about 400 jin costs 6,500 to 6,700 yuan per head. Adding transport, quarantine and other fees, the delivered price comes to roughly 6,800 to 7,000 yuan per head. The cost for 10 head is 70,000 yuan.

3. Feeding cost: Generally, improved-breed Simmental cattle are mostly marketed at 1,300 to 1,400 jin. Except during the high-temperature summer months, they can gain about 100 jin per month on average at other times; during the 3 summer months they gain only 60 to 80 jin per month on average. By this calculation, at least 10 months of feeding are needed to reach 1,300 jin. The whole process requires about 2,800 jin of concentrate feed and about 6,000 jin of roughage. Calculated at 1.3 yuan per jin for concentrate feed and 0.1 yuan per jin for silaged straw, the total feeding cost is 4,240 yuan, and the cost for 10 head is 42,400 yuan.

4. Other costs: vaccine and medicine costs 100 yuan per head (including foot-and-mouth disease and bovine pleuropneumonia serum), water and electricity 150 yuan per head, depreciation 50 yuan per head, labor 500 yuan per head, totaling 800 yuan per head, and 8,000 yuan for 10 cattle.

5. Total cost: The cost of raising one head is 12,040 yuan, and the farming cost for 10 cattle is 120,400 yuan. Adding the 2,000 yuan pen cost (calculated on 5-year depreciation), the total farming cost is 122,400 yuan.

How much can you earn raising 10 cattle?

1. Selling price: The market price of fattened cattle is around 12 yuan per jin, and one fattened cow weighing 1,300 jin can sell for 15,600 yuan.

2. Total sales: Calculating one cow selling for 15,600 yuan, the total sales of 10 cattle is 156,000 yuan.

3. Profit analysis: After deducting all costs, raising 10 cattle earns 33,600 yuan.

How can the cost of cattle farming be reduced?

1. Do a good job in feed production: The biggest expense in cattle farming is feed. To reduce cattle farming costs, first do a good job in feed production. In particular, green and roughage feed should be self-supplied as much as possible and purchased as little as possible, and commercial feed should be avoided or used sparingly as much as possible. This ensures a stable supply and also lowers costs.

2. Balanced feed supply: Ensuring a balanced supply of green feed throughout the year is the foundation for stable production, high yield and normal reproduction. Feed (graze) fresh green feed in summer and autumn, feed silage in winter and spring, and keep green feed available all four seasons without interruption. For every 25 to 30 kg of grass a cow consumes, it can gain 1 kg of body weight.

3. Persist in self-breeding and self-raising: On the basis of improving the reproduction rate, persist in raising your own young cattle. This not only prevents bringing in epidemics when buying cattle, but also greatly reduces cattle farming costs. Raising one young cattle only costs 500 to 600 yuan, while buying one young cattle externally costs 1,500 yuan.

4. Make rational use of materials: Properly storing materials, repairing them in time, extending their years of use, reasonably accumulating manure, using cattle dung to produce biogas, saving energy and so on all help reduce cattle farming costs. In addition, doing a good job in epidemic prevention and disease elimination, and ensuring all survive and all are strong, can also reduce cattle farming costs.