Beef specialist gives presents at Husker Harvest Days
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Eric Bailey presents to a full group of onlookers at the second day of Husker Harvest Days near Grand Island. His presentation touched on tips for producers to build resilience in their herd and ways to maintain a profitable business in drought-like conditions.
Year after year Husker Harvest Days attracts a huge crowd, all there to see the latest and greatest in farming technologies and techniques, alongside timely presentations on related topics by the experts.
One said presentation pointed producers toward how to prepare for a drought and raise most profitable cattle possible at the same time.
Missouri Extension Beef Specialist Eric Bailey gave the talk “Building Resilience into Your Herd” during the late morning hours of Sept. 14, giving all producers needed to know about keeping the profits, as well as cattle, resilient in climate both natural and economic.
“Despite the difference in revenue between most profitable and least profitable, the profitability... (was) all negative,” Bailey said, comparing three tiers of profit on a data table from a study over 2015-2019. “The most profitable lost $130 a head; the least profitable lost $530 a head. We’re talking about $400 difference between the most and least profitable and only $138 is explained by income. Controlling costs is such a critical part of component to calf production.”
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