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Supporting ranch sustainability

A stool with three legs is an effective illustration of sustainability; the legs represent the three most common sustainability pillars – environmental, social and economic. Viability of the stool depends on support and involvement of all three legs.
July 1, 2024
Rick Machen

Even though sustainability has been a frequent topic of discussion among animal and natural resource stewards and consumers alike, there remains confusion within the industry regarding what sustainability actually involves.


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Moving cattle

Evaluating stocker cattle cost of production and profitability

March 24, 2021
Stan Bevers and Rick Machen

Stocker cattle operators have been described as the cattle industry’s shock absorber between cow-calf producers and feedlot managers.


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Unit cost of production expressions

February 24, 2021
Stan Bevers and Rick Machen
In the first article in this series of three, we discussed the difference between unit cost of production (UCOP) and break-even price, and contend the two are not interchangeable.
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Recordkeeping

A systems approach to recordkeeping for better ranch management

January 25, 2021
Logan Hoffman and Ryan D. Rhoades
The new year symbolizes a great opportunity to reflect on ways to improve upon 2020 profitability.
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Sale ring

Bragging rights require knowing costs

January 25, 2021
Stan Bevers and Rick Machen

Average calf weaning weight and market price are popular topics for discussion among cattle producers.


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Unit cost of production

Calculating unit cost of production

January 24, 2019
Aaron Berger
The books have closed on 2018, and we are now working through winter and looking forward to spring. For the spring-calving cow-calf producer, this is a good time to analyze what it cost to produce a pound of weaned calf last year.
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