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<blockquote data-quote="Sandpit Farm" data-source="post: 7934945" data-attributes="member: 1646"><p>I have been prepping for a podcast on purchased feeds and looking at the AHDB figures for 2018/19 for high yielding AYR calving herds, it looks like the range of purchased feed cost as a percentage of total cash cost was 43-49%. Not sure that applies here but it'd be interesting to know what 2021/22 figures would be. Feed has increased by 12.5% which is tiny compared to fuel increase at 54% and fert at 238% but if it is half of cash costs the 12.5% has a greater effect.</p><p></p><p>For grazing herds I think the cost saving of handling feed, moving slurry and the later cost of spreading that slurry is underestimated when the cows are grazing and it more than covers the cost of moving fences and measuring grass. </p><p></p><p>Labourwise - I don't really like benchmarking this as a cost we should reduce, more a cost we need to justify. I have seen labour/output as being 1 unit/700k litres and I have also seen it as 1 person/£200k revenue (industry uses £250k). What is never clear is how much forage work is being done by staff etc. It is sometimes better to consider hrs/cow place/yr (industry says this should be below 25hrs... I'd debate that again).</p><p></p><p>In terms of constraints. Milking platform as a percentage of land is an interesting one. There is a suggestion that <60% is not great for cost in a SBC system.</p><p></p><p>Not sure if any of this has helped</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sandpit Farm, post: 7934945, member: 1646"] I have been prepping for a podcast on purchased feeds and looking at the AHDB figures for 2018/19 for high yielding AYR calving herds, it looks like the range of purchased feed cost as a percentage of total cash cost was 43-49%. Not sure that applies here but it'd be interesting to know what 2021/22 figures would be. Feed has increased by 12.5% which is tiny compared to fuel increase at 54% and fert at 238% but if it is half of cash costs the 12.5% has a greater effect. For grazing herds I think the cost saving of handling feed, moving slurry and the later cost of spreading that slurry is underestimated when the cows are grazing and it more than covers the cost of moving fences and measuring grass. Labourwise - I don't really like benchmarking this as a cost we should reduce, more a cost we need to justify. I have seen labour/output as being 1 unit/700k litres and I have also seen it as 1 person/£200k revenue (industry uses £250k). What is never clear is how much forage work is being done by staff etc. It is sometimes better to consider hrs/cow place/yr (industry says this should be below 25hrs... I'd debate that again). In terms of constraints. Milking platform as a percentage of land is an interesting one. There is a suggestion that <60% is not great for cost in a SBC system. Not sure if any of this has helped [/QUOTE]
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