100 day beef finishing margins.

[wellingtonfarmer]

Been a bit of discussion in here about bull beef profits-

What margin do people see on short term finishing cattle. What price difference between buying them and selling later do people work on. For example if you buy an Animal for £1000 what value are you hoping to sell if for 100 days later?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

£90 a month

 

[gone up the hill]

£90 a month

You are talking gross or net margin of £90 a month?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

You are talking gross or net margin of £90 a month?

£90 a month is what I’d want per month if I was finishing short keep cattle

 

[davidroberts30]

£90 a month

It costs 45 to just feed them

 

[Northeastfarmer]

It costs 45 to just feed them

Therefore there’s £45 left

 

[johnspeehs]

Wish I could feed mine for £1.50 a day

 

[davidroberts30]

Therefore there’s £45 left

Bedding housing etc as well

 

[Werzle]

Beef finisher in america on bbc2 last sunday evening was working on $80 p/head profit

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Beef finisher in america on bbc2 last sunday evening was working on $80 p/head profit

100 dollars

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Bedding housing etc as well

It’s a numbers game

 

[Werzle]

Said if someone could guarantee the $100 he would be well happy. I couldnt understand why that program and countryfile were overlapping both on the bbc.

 

[onthehoof]

Beef finisher in america on bbc2 last sunday evening was working on $80 p/head profit

What program was that?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

What program was that?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07vbq03/new-york-americas-busiest-city-episode-2

 

[gone up the hill]

It costs 45 to just feed them

Unless you have a very good supply of waste veg there is no way you will only spend £1.45 head a day feeding cattle that are 100 or days less from finishing.

Well you might but didn't you post back along that your cattle growth rates were really poor?

 

[Samcowman]

It costs 45 to just feed them

What ration is it you are feeding them my ration is a bit more than yours and need to cut the cost down

 

[davidroberts30]

Unless you have a very good supply of waste veg there is no way you will only spend £1.45 head a day feeding cattle that are 100 or days less from finishing.

Well you might but didn't you post back along that your cattle growth rates were really poor?

i put that down to soil contamination in the beet

 

[harperfarmer]

ME at 10.7 looks very low for finishing cattle. Even for growing cattle as you've put them in at I'd want them at the higher end of the recommended range.

 

[davidroberts30]

ME at 10.7 looks very low for finishing cattle. Even for growing cattle as you've put them in at I'd want them at the higher end of the recommended range.

i know,poor silage for you

 

[Agrivator]

The only thing of any importance is the difference between what you sell a beast for and what you pay for its replacement.
The increase in value between buying and selling is irrelevant, because what you paid for it is history and can't be changed.

The successful finishers are the ones who continue to work on that basis and stick with it through times good and bad and ride the fluctuations in store and fat prices.
The one's who get their fingers burnt are the ones who buy an animal and think that they will sell it and make a profit. And when they find they haven't, they give up and go and jump into some other way of losing money..