The buy/sell margin (the difference between a feeder calf or yearling
purchase price and a sale price at some later date) is a critical
component in the profitability of beef cattle backgrounding and
finishing systems. In fact, the margin can make or break a producer
in a single year.
This program allows you to look at historical buy/sell margins for
buy-sell periods that you select for heifers and steers. These historical
buy/sell margins can give you some feel for the price risk exposure
on purchased cattle as well as calves from a cow/calf program. The
absolute buy/sell margins in dollars per hundredweight are one measure
of price risk.
The BSM Calculator will calculate the minimum (worst), average,
and maximum (best) buy/sell margins for the past 10 years (5 years
for Holstein steers) based on your selections of both buying and
selling months, state, sex, weight ranges, and grades. The input
screen of the BSM Calculator presents two boxes which include information
for the buying and selling months needed to calculate the minimum,
average, and maximum buy/sell margins.
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software was developed cooperatively by the University of
Tennessee Extension and University of Georgia Cooperative
Extension Service with support from The United States Department
of Agriculture Fund For Rural America program. |
Information contact Tammy McKinley
or Emmit Rawls
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