Cost of Producing Milk in Illinois Portion of the St Louis Milkshed
Cost of Producing Milk in Illinois Portion of the St Louis Milkshed
R H Wilcox
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2 Example: The cost of producing 100 pounds of milk in herds pro- ducing between 7, 500 and 8, 000 pounds of milk per cow would be determined thus: 3 Farm grain 24 pounds @ $40 a ton . ;, :. ......... $. 48 Protein meal 7 pounds @ 60 a ton 21 Hay 44 pounds 25 a ton 55 Silage 51 pounds @ 10 a ton 26 Pasture 2. 4 days @ 12 cents a day 29 Man labor. . . . 1. 8 hours @ 40 cents an hour. . . . 72 $2. 51 Add 42. 7 percent of $2. 51 1 . 07 Total cost $3 . 58 While this method of computing milk costs i...s reasonably accurate, it requires a good many calculations. Current prices must be determined for each feed and a current value placed on the hourly labor. Simpler method expressed in charts. A quicker, simpler method of applying prices to feed and labor under changing price-levels seemed desirable. The one worked out here and translated into charts (Figs. 1 to 4) has been developed by (1) using the price movements of an impor- tant grain, such as corn, as the measure of fluctuations in the cost of feed and other items that tend to fluctuate with feed; and (2) using the 1 Recent studies have shown that feed and labor costs constitute from 70 to 80 percent of the net cost of milk production.
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