Turning grass into money - this time with cattle, with Joe Kerin
About this episode
Joe Kerin discusses the financial aspects of cattle farming and the decision to choose Wagyu over Angus based on feed value.
What does a cow actually cost to run? At Kerin Ag, every kilogram of utilisable feed has a value attached to it. That allows Joe Kerin and the team to measure whether an animal is genuinely paying its way. In this episode, Joe joins Mark to discuss how putting a dollar value on each kilogram of grass they grow led them to choose Wagyu over Angus. As any Kerin would, Joe has done the numbers and compared Wagyu cows with larger recipient cows, based on the weaning weight of their calves relativ...
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