Team Name _______ 2011 Block & Bridle Stockmens Contest – Senior Team Problem
You are planning to graze a set of stocker steers for 200days from spring to fall on leased pasture. Past experience tells you that to expect 1.5lb/d daily gain with a expected sell weight of about 725lbs.
1. If the average purchase weight is 450 lbs and the calves shrink
4% in transit to your farm. The average calf weight off the truck is?
2. Your experience indicates that you spend an average of
$6.50/hd in antibiotic treatment of the calves after delivery.
What is your total medicine expenditure for 70 calves?
3. If you use a stocking rate of 1.1 acre/hd, how many acres
of pasture should you have access to?
4. Your lender has agreed to loan you 80% of your animal purchase
cost. If you paid $150/cwt, what is the amount of your operating
loan?
5. If your lender charges you an annual interest rate of 6%, what is
your interest cost?
6. If you rent the pasture for $30/acre what is your total pasture cost?
7. The buyer you normally market calves through is not interested in
buying your calves at a heavier weight. You are considering adding an
implant to your management strategy and expect a 10% increase in steer
performance. How many days of grazing should you plan on that would
allow you to maximize total gain and still use your normal marketing channels?
8. How much would your interest cost be reduced by the reduction in grazing days?
9. Virginia Tech research indicates that supplementation with soyhulls at the rate
of 0.5% of their body weight would increase daily gain 0.3lb/d. What is the efficiency
that the feed is converted to extra gain?
10. Historically you have had some trouble with coccidiosis in
backgrounded cattle. Feeding soyhulls allows inclusion of Rumensin.
How many grams of Rumensin should be included per ton of soyhulls
to achieve a daily intake of 200mg/d of Rumensin?