Drop in daily cattle costs brings relief and opportunities for cattle ranchers

Cattle confining operators started May with good news: the daily cattle cost (CDB) recorded consecutive drops between March and May in the three systems monitored by the Confined Cattle Production Cost Index (ICBC), from FMVZ-USP. Watch the video below and check out the details. Directly from the USP campus in Pirassununga, Dr. Gustavo Sartorello, from Agroplanner, presents the confined cattle cost index in Goiás and São Paulo, now with an unprecedented format that facilitates understanding of the daily cattle cost composition. The highlight was the medium São Paulo confinement (CSPm), which saw a 4.4% reduction, falling from R$ 21.49 to R$ 20.55 per head/day. Even so, this result reinforces the current challenge of intensive livestock farming: cutting expenses without compromising animal performance. With feed representing over 80% of total costs, any variation in input prices directly affects the producer's wallet. The detailed ICBC analysis shows that nutritional cost is the ...