Example of a Dairy Financial Return						
By Mark Snyder

													Total Area	180	Includes replacement area, expresed in Hectares	
													KG MF		36957															
	1.- Financial results										KG PROT		33163
1	Farm Net Sales			U$S		%/TNFS	/Ha	/Cow	/KG MF	/KG Prot
2	Milk				$200.356 	95,23%	$1.113 	$1.284 	$5,42 	$6,04 
3	Cull cows			$6.546 		3,11%	$36 	$42 	$0,18 	$0,20 
4	Herd increment Diference	$3.500 		1,66%	$19 	$22 	$0,09 	$0,11 
5	Total Farm Net Sales (TNFS)	$210.402 	100,00%	$170 	$196 	$0,83 	$0,92 
6	Farm Expenses			U$S		%/TNFS	/Ha	/Cow	/KG MF	/KG Prot
7	Commercial Feed & Grain		$52.061 	24,74%	$289 	$334 	$1,41 	$1,57 
8	Labor (Milking, etc)		$30.647 	14,57%	$170 	$196 	$0,83 	$0,92 
9	Health & Vet			$6.380 		3,03%	$35 	$41 	$0,17 	$0,19 
10	Replacement feed		$5.570 		2,65%	$31 	$36 	$0,15 	$0,17 
11	Calve Milk & Feed 		$5.223 		2,48%	$29 	$33 	$0,14 	$0,16 
12	Haymaking			$4.773 		2,27%	$27 	$31 	$0,13 	$0,14 
13	Other expenses			$4.241 		2,02%	$24 	$27 	$0,11 	$0,13 
14	Breeding			$3.969 		1,89%	$22 	$25 	$0,11 	$0,12 
15	Pasture conservation		$3.639 		1,73%	$20 	$23 	$0,10 	$0,11 
16	Equipment conservation		$2.517 		1,20%	$14 	$16 	$0,07 	$0,08 
17	Milk control (DHIA)		$2.074 		0,99%	$12 	$13 	$0,06 	$0,06 
18	Energy				$1.512 		0,72%	$8 	$10 	$0,04 	$0,05 
19	Total Farm Expenses		$122.606 	58,27%	$681 	$786 	$3,32 	$3,70 
20	Pasture refunds			$3.393 		1,61%	$19 	$22 	$0,09 	$0,10 
21	Gross Farm Income (Row 5-20-21)	$84.403 	40,12%	$469 	$541 	$2,28 	$2,55 
22	Ownership costs (Maint.,Taxes)	$25.000 	11,88%	$139 	$160 	$0,68 	$0,75 
23	Net Farm Income (Row 21-22)	$59.403 	28,23%	$330 	$381 	$1,61 	$1,79 
								
	2.- Global Indicators					
24	Return to Total Capital		11,2%			This is an example of an existing dairy 	
25	Return to OverLand Capital	37,8%			in BA. It's a well-managed-farm that can			
26	Herd heads/Person		106			still increase production basicaly working			
27	Milk Sales/Person (Lts/Year)	324854 			on stocking rate by adding corn silage.		
28	Production Rate (Kg MF/HA )	177,8 			Since it's a small farm, there is very few 		
29	Daily Milk Yield		2670 			equipment investment, so mayor works 			
30	Daily Milk Yield per Cow	21,7 			(plantings, haymaking,etc) are hired.			
31	Stocking rate (Cows/Ha)		1,30 			The milking is hired labor.			
								
	3.- Capital Investment		U$S		$/HA		This is just an example, and		
32	Land & Constructions	 	$372.353 	$2.069 		meant to give you an idea of 		
33	Equipments	 		$43.765 	$243 		the local enterprise.		
34	Herd	 			$113.517 	$631 	
35	Total Capital	 		$529.636 	$2.942

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