Fertility
Efficient cost controls for your suckler cattle are essential to your farm's profitability, but the productivity of your herd also contributes to your bottom line.
Optimal monitoring and optimisation of the calving intervals and the age at the first calving are the first steps towards achieving improved profitability.
Age at first calving
Lowering the age at the first calving reduces the number of non-productive livestock units (LU) and has other beneficial effects, depending on your farm's objectives.
Reducing the age at the first calving, if this is accompanied by an increase in the number of calvings, results in:
production-efficiency improvements of up to +10 - 12% kilograms of live meat produced/LU.
labour remuneration improvements of up to +5 - 7%.
reduced economic sensitivity.
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