Kris Ringwall, North Dakota State University Extension, must be good with a calculator. He presents economic factors for cow-calf producers that focus on profit per unit of production. Representatives and veterinarians can use this article to engage producers in a discussion about profit improvement versus input costs.
Source: Drovers CattleNetwork, January 7, 2017.
Success is fleeting if a producer only plans on working with the commodity markets with no desire to change marketing opportunities, and only plans on managing the base cow herd as a repeating annual exercise of the same.