Assessing options for drought response — 5. Send sale steers to agistment or sell early

This is the fifth 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 sale steers or sending them to agistment in response to drought.

You can watch the full recording (14 minutes) or use the playlist below to jump to the start of a particular section within the presentation.

Playlist

1. Send sale steers to agistment or sell early
2. Respond to drought
3. What steps have we taken so far?
4. Sell or agist sale steers?
   • • Spreadsheet example: Sale steers agistment costs and returns
5. Sell or agist sale steers? – continued
   • • Spreadsheet example Is it profitable to buy steers and put them on agistment
6. Where to next?

Excel spreadsheet

Excel – 3 Sale steers agistment costs and returns

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

← 4. Sell, feed or agist PTIC cows

← 6. Assessing forced sales from within cow, heifer and steer groups

← 7. Impact of the response strategy on recovery

Assessing options for drought recovery

← 8. Options for recovery 

← 9. Incorporating climate variability