Nebraska Cattle Budgets

Today's beef cattle producer is faced with an ever increasing diversity of inputs, especially feedstuffs. This makes it more important to consider ways to optimally allocate financial resources. The use of a livestock budget can aid in financial management, production, and marketing decisions by enabling producers to summarize the enterprise's expenses into a breakeven selling price.

This resource includes an Excel® spreadsheet and instructions for using it to develop cattle budgets for cow-calf, cattle backgrounding and cattle feeding operations.