Rearing Costs

Publications

• ICPA Final report (26 pages, 286 KB)
• Cost of Raising Heifers-2007 ICPA Report(26 pages, 170 KB)
• Cost of Raising Heifers Fact Sheet (2 pages, 53 KB)

Hoard's Dairyman Magazine - "Real Herds - Real Heifers" Series

• "Caring for calves an expensive business", January 10, 2008 (1 page, 134 KB)
• "Feed expenses eat heifer raising budgets", January 25, 2008 (1 page, 176 KB)
• "There's nothing equal when raising calves", February 10, 2008 (1 page, 193 KB)
• "Big spread exists on hours needed to raise calves", February 25, 2008 (1 page, 156 KB)
• "In just nine years... heifer raising costs jumped over 50 percent", March 10, 2008 (1 page, 185 KB)
• "Options exist to reduce expenses", March 25, 2008 (1 page, 183 KB)

Spreadsheets

• Dairy Heifer Management Tools

Workshop Presentations

• Cost of Raising Heifers 2007 (32 slides, 3.85 MB)
• Raising Healthy Dairy Calves While Keeping Cost Low (31 pages, 63.85 MB)