By Kenny Burdine, University of Kentucky
As we open the final month of the year, most spring-calving cow-calf operations have weaned calves and have an opportunity to assess the productivity and profitability of their herds. To that end, I wanted to quickly review two measures that I feel are of utmost importance to a cow-calf operator. Neither measure carries a dollar sign, but both have serious implications for the revenue side of the profit equation. There is no shortage of measures and indices that can be helpful for cow-calf operators, but weaning rate and pounds of weaned calf per cow…
