Dairy cattle will each need 20-40 lbs of fodder per day, depending upon the amount of roughage fed.

A judicious management of feed mixture per cattle is 25 kg of hydroponic fodder, 10 kg of conventional green fodder and five kg of straw per day per cow, which yields about 15 litre milk a day, suggests Ms.

It looks like our rule-of-thumb held up pretty good, 11 cows on 20 acres, is 1.8 acres per cow. We have enough forage to feed our cows for the whole year.

You might have to decide between two different classes of bulls. Going from average to above-average might look more like a $3,000 price tag vs. $5,000. In that example, the price per service changes approximately $20, from $50.07 to $70.27.

The previously stated multiplier of 2.1 times the value of a fat steer would yield an average bull price of just over $4,400. So, we have a conservative range of $4,400 to $4,800 for the average bull price.

Herbster Angus Farms in Falls City, Nebraska in 2017 purchased a bull for $755,000 for half interest, so American Angus Association officials say, all told, that bull was valued at $1.51 million. It sold by Schaff Angus Valley Bulls of St. Anthony, North Dakota.

The most expensive bull ever sold at public auction for $1.51 million. Schaff Angus Valley has produced record-breaking bulls time after time, but in 2019 they smashed their own record for a single bull sale. The ranch sold SAV America for a staggering $1.51 million.

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The cost for the semen is typically $16 per straw. The cost for the synchronization protocol drugs is about $14 per cow. That’s $30 total. At 60% conception, it’s $50 per pregnant cow, half the price per calf of owning the $5,000 bull.