By: Barry Ward, Leader, Production Business Management
Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics
Newly updated OSU Extension Beef Enterprise Budgets for 2012 have been completed and posted to the Farm Management Website of the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics. Updated Enterprise Budgets can be viewed and downloaded from the following website:
http://aede.osu.edu/programs/farmmanagement/budgets
Beef Enterprise Budgets posted for 2012 include:
Market Steer Budget – Days on Feed – 232 (Corn/Soybean Meal Ration) Market Steer Budget – Days on Feed – 250 (Corn/DDG Ration) Yearling Market Steer Budget – Days on Feed – 182 (Corn/Soybean Meal Ration) Yearling Market Steer Budget – Days on Feed – 190 (Corn/DDG Ration) Market Heifer Budget – Days on Feed – 220 (Corn/Soybean Meal Ration) Cow-Calf Budget – Spring Calving
Our enterprise budgets are compiled on downloadable Excel Spreadsheets that contain macros for ease of use. Users can input their own production and price levels to calculate their own numbers. Detailed footnotes are included to help explain methodologies used to obtain the budget numbers.
Authors of these beef budgets include Dr. Steve Boyles, Extension Beef Specialist; John Grimes, OSU Extension Beef Coordinator; David Dugan, Extension Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Brown, Adams and Highland Counties; Mike Estadt, Extension Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Pickaway County; Stan Smith, Extension Program Assistant, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Fairfield County; Jeff Fisher, Extension Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Pike County; Barry Ward, OSU Extension, Leader, Production Business Management; and Seth Wilkerson, Undergraduate Student, Agribusiness and Applied Economics, OSU Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics.
