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Opportunity and overhead costs, as well as those for ownership, decrease with farm size

  • Cattle & Beef
Vertical bar chart showing opportunity and overhead cost, ownership cost, and operating cost for farm sizes ranging from 20–49 beef cows to 500 cows or more.

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Using data from USDA’s 2018 Agricultural Resource Management Survey, researchers at USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) found a cow-calf farm’s cost per cow declined as herd sizes grew and the costs were distributed among a greater number of animals.

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