Livestock budgets

Livestock budgets

Livestock enterprise budgets can be used by producers, lenders and others to estimate costs and returns for many livestock enterprises. Budgets are updated in even years and are available in PDF and Excel format.

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Cow-calf beef budgets (2021)

  • 250-head, summer on private range, winter feeding necessary (CC1)
  • 300-head, summer on private pasture and range, winter feeding necessary (CC2)
  • 500-head, summer on federal range, winter on federal and private range (CC3)
  • 500-head, summer on federal and state range, winter feeding necessary (CC4)
  • 300-head, summer on federal range, winter on harvested feeds and crop aftermath (CC5)
  • 250-head, summer on federal and state range, winter feeding necessary (CC6)
  • 500-head, summer on federal, state, and private range, winter on federal range (CC7)
  • 250-head, summer on private pasture and range, winter feeding necessary (CC8)

Dairy budgets

  • 5,000-head, open lot dairy (D5), 2014-15
  • 2,500-head, free stall dairy (D4), 2014-15
  • 120-head, Jersey dairy (D3), 2014-15
  • 210-head, open lot Holstein dairy (D1), 2014-15
  • 210-head, free stall Holstein dairy (D2), 2014-15
  • 10,000-head, Heifer raising facility, 2014-15
  • 400-head, Heifer raising facility, 2014-15

Feedlot beef budgets

  • Feedlot budget, 2014
  • 5,000-head, calf to slaughter (FL1), 2018
  • 5,000-head, yearling to slaughter, concentrate ration (FL2), 2014

Replacement heifer beef budgets

  • 100-head, bought in fall, sold in winter (HFR), 2020

Sheep and goat budgets

  • Sheep budget, 2014
  • 1,000-head, April lambing on range, lambs sold as feeders (SR1-14), 2018
  • 1,000-head, April lambing on range, lambs sold as fat lambs (SR2-14), 2018
  • Ewes on pasture, lambs on drylot, 100-head (SF1-14), 2014
  • Dairy Goat budget, 2018
  • 200-head Goat Dairy in Southcentral Idaho (GD-18), 2018

Stocker beef budgets

  • 200-head, bought in winter, sold in fall (ST1), 2020
  • 200-head, bought in fall, sold in spring (ST2), 2020
  • 200-head, bought in spring, sold in fall (ST3), 2020

Please email Pat Hatzenbuehler at phatzenbuehler@uidaho.edu if you need archived budgets.