Raising heifer replacements – labor costs and labor efficiency

dc.contributor.author	Augello, Lauren
dc.date.accessioned	2021-07-19T21:19:20Z
dc.date.available	2021-07-19T21:19:20Z
dc.date.issued	2021-07
dc.description.abstract	How much does it cost to raise a heifer from birth to first calving? The costs associated with raising heifers are often overlooked when analyzing expenses on dairy farms. In the summer of 2019, we collected data from 26 Northeast dairy farms. An analysis of this data revealed that the average total cost to raise a heifer from birth to weaning was $2,355, with an 80th percentile range of $1,953 to $2,824. As expected, feed was the largest cost associated with raising heifers, followed by labor. Labor was the expense with the greatest 80th percentile range and accounted for 13.2 percent of the total raising cost, on average.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/104181
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Progressive Dairy	en_US
dc.subject	dairy	en_US
dc.subject	manager	en_US
dc.subject	heifer	en_US
dc.subject	replacement	en_US
dc.subject	cost	en_US
dc.subject	labor	en_US
dc.subject	efficiency	en_US
dc.title	Raising heifer replacements – labor costs and labor efficiency	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US
schema.accessibilityFeature	alternativeText	en_US
schema.accessibilityHazard	none	en_US

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