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VM 577P Herd Production Medicine - 2004

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Last Updated 03/09/04

test 2

Cost-Benefit Decision Analysis Exercise

Decision and Risk Analysis (D Pfeiffer, Massey U)
http://epiweb.massey.ac.nz/FILES/Pfeiffer/decisi97.pdf

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Changing to a TMR Feeding System (MF Hutjens, U Illinois)
http://www.traill.uiuc.edu/dairynet/paperDisplay.cfm?Type=paper&ContentID=243

Diagnosis of early pregnancy in commercial dairy herds: Veterinary rectal palpation or BioPRYN (protein B) serum testing?
http://www.biotracking.com/savings.php
http://www.biotracking.com/bloodtestsavings.php

 Preconditioning program alternatives

• Great Plains Health Flow Sheet
  http://gpvec.unl.edu/filesdatabase/files/feedlot/hhccfl.htm
• Value Added Calf (VAC) Vaccination Management Program
  http://www.tcfa.org/ValuedAdded/1valuad.PDF

Producer Enterprise Budget Exercise

Readings:

• Enterprise Accounting
  http://cdp.wisc.edu/Resources/crop/general/enteracc.pdf
• Enterprise Budgets for Dairy Operations
  http://info.ag.uidaho.edu/resources/pdfs/WREP0124.pdf
  • Idaho enterprise budgets
    http://www.ag.uidaho.edu/aers/livestock_EB_02.htm
• Dairy Excel's 15 Measures of Dairy Farm Competitiveness
  http://ohioline.osu.edu/b864/
• U.S. Top Dairies: Benchmarks for Success
  http://www.wdmc.org/2001/WDMC2001p147-156.pdf
• Critical Control Points for Profitability in the Cow-Calf Enterprise
  http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/ansci/beefreports/asl1750.pdf
• Determining your unit costs of producing a hundred weight of calf
  http://agecon.uwyo.edu/RiskMgt/financialrisk/DetUnCst.pdf

Specific enterprise budgets:

• Characteristics and Production Costs of U.S. Cow-Calf Operations (USDA ERS bulletin 974-3, 2001)
  http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/sb974-3/sb974-3.pdf
• List of state enterprise budgets maintained by Ohio State University Extension
  http://newfarm.osu.edu/enterprisebudget/enterprisebudgetindex.html
• Regional: • Milk Production Costs in 2002 on Selected Wisconsin Dairy Farms
  http://cdp.wisc.edu/pdf/02cost.pdf
• Idaho Livestock Enterprise Budgets (beef, dairy, sheep, swine – pdf’s)
  http://www.ag.uidaho.edu/aers/livestock_EB_02.htm
• Iowa 2002 Livestock Enterprise Budgets (swine, beef cow-calf, stocker, feedlot, dairy)
  http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/FM1815.pdf
• Montana Decision Support Software (beef cow-calf – spreadsheets & PDF)
  http://www.montana.edu/wwwextec/farmmgt/software.html
• Nevada Enterprise Budgets (pdf’s)
  http://unr.edu/homepage/myer/fact.html
• Oklahoma 2000 Livestock Enterprise Budgets (beef cow-calf, stocker – spreadsheets for purchase)
  http://www.agecon.okstate.edu/budgets/
  • Cow-calf example
    http://www.agecon.okstate.edu/budgets/files/cowcalf.pdf
• Oregon - (beef cow-calf, extensive state-wide enterprise budgets)
  http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/EdMat/

Example spreadsheets:

• Iowa State University Extension
  http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/livestock/html/b1-21.html
• Montana Decision Support Software (beef cow-calf – spreadsheets & PDF)
  http://www.montana.edu/wwwextec/farmmgt/software.html
• Texas Extension combined cow-calf and stocker spreadsheet
  http://ruralbusiness.tamu.edu/beef/xls/cattleforage.XLS

What producers use currently:

• Beef cow-calf: Parasiticide usage - PDF page 8
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/Beef_Cow-Calf/bf97des2.pdf
  • Vaccine usage - PDF pages 19-24
    http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/Beef_Cow-Calf/bf97des3.pdf
• Feedlot Injections - PDF pages 10-22
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/Beef_Feedlot/FD99des2.pdf
  • Metaphylaxis usage - PDF page 8
    http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/Beef_Feedlot/FD99des3.pdf
  • Parasiticide usage - PDF pages 33-34
    http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/Beef_Feedlot/FD99des3.pdf
• Dairy Vaccination and preventive practices - PDF pages 5--59
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/Dairy_Cattle/Dairy02/dairy_reportv3-rev2.pdf
• Swine Vaccinations - PDF page 43
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/Swine/Swine2000/finalswoodes1.pdf

Example sources of product costs:

Please note that this list is for teaching exercise purposes only and is not an endorsement. To find products you don't see listed, put trade name in search box on website.

• American Livestock Supply
  http://www.americanlivestock.com/index.jsp
  • Select species using button list on left then select from list. No legend drugs.
• DairyPharm
  http://www.dairypharm.com/index.shtml
• PBS Animal Health
  http://www.pbsanimalhealth.com/
  • Vaccines - Click on "Cattle Vaccines" link on left for alphabetical list
  • Legend drugs - Click on "Prescription Drugs" link on left for alphabetical list
• Valley Vet
  http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_farm.html
  • Vaccines - Click on "Cattle Vaccines" link in left Category list for alphabetical list
  • Legend drugs - Click on "Prescriptions" in left Category list for alphabetical list

Feed costs

• USDA Livestock and Grain Market News Branch
  http://www.ams.usda.gov/LSMNpubs/index.htm
• “Pricing Forage in the Field”
  http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/pdf/a1-65.pdf
• “What is the value of a standing corn crop”
  http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/aginfo/farmmgmt/pubs/Cornvalue02.pdf
• “An improved AUM for range cattle“ (with feed equivalents)
  http://jrm.library.arizona.edu/data/1965/186/15vall.pdf
• “Determining Pasture Rental Rates”
  http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/plantsci/hay/r1092w.htm
• “Computing a Pasture Rental Rate”
  http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/wholefarm/pdf/c2-23.pdf
  http://jrm.library.arizona.edu/data/1965/186/15vall.pdf
• Drovers
  http://www.drovers.com/

Professional Service Fee Exercise

• Census of Agriculture
  http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/php/agri/area.php
• Demographic table examples:
  http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/POEBeefIndustry.htm

Veterinary Usage:

• Beef cow-calf, see pdf page 7 at
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/Beef_Cow-Calf/bf97des2.pdf
• Dairy cattle, see pdf pages 27 and 28 at
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/Dairy_Cattle/dr96des1.pdf
• Beef feedlot, see pdf pages 36 and 37 at
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cahm/Beef_Feedlot/fd99chan.pdf

Tax rates:

• Federal marginal taxes·
  http://www.quicken.com/taxes/investing/marginal/yahoo
• State tax rates
  http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/ind_inc.html

Livestock Enterprise Budgets:

• Idaho Livestock Costs and Returns Estimates (Enterprise Budgets) - 2002
  http://www.ag.uidaho.edu/aers/livestock_EB_02.htm

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