Assessing options for drought response — 4. Sell, feed or agist PTIC cows
This is the fourth of seven recorded presentations, demonstrating how to assess management options in response to drought.
In this presentation, Fred Chudleigh (Agricultural Economist, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries) discusses how to use spreadsheet tools to assess and compare options of selling, feeding or agisting pregnancy tested in-calf (PTIC) cows in response to drought.
You can watch the full recording (21 minutes) or use the playlist below to jump to the start of a particular section within the presentation.
Playlist
- Sell, feed or agist PTIC cows
- Respond to drought
- What steps have we taken so far
- Sell, feed or agist PTIC cows
- Sell and re-purchase PTIC cows versus feeding
- Spreadsheet example: Feed or sell PTIC cows
- Sell and re-purchase PTIC cows versus agistment
- Spreadsheet example: Agist or sell PTIC cows
- Sell, feed, or agist PTIC cows?—Summary
- Where to next?
Excel spreadsheets
Excel – 1 Feed or sell PTIC cows
Excel – 2 Agist or sell PTIC cows
This recording has been compiled within the Improving profitability and resilience of beef and sheep businesses in Queensland—Preparing for, responding to and recovering from drought project.
More in this series:
Assessing options for drought response
← 1. Introduction and overview
← 2. Situation analysis
← 3. Mortality risk and early weaning
← 5. Send sale steers to agistment or sell early
← 6. Assessing forced sales from within cow, heifer and steer groups
← 7. Impact of the response strategy on recovery