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Table 79: Costs and Returns for Dairy Goat, 1500 lbs Milk/Doe, 100 Doe Herd

Organic Production Practices, Northeastern United States, 1996

ITEM UNIT PRICE QUANTITY TOTAL
         
Receipts       
Milk Sales cwt $ 31.00 15 $ 465.00
Does Culled (5% dead, 40% culled) lb $ 1.20 120 $ 57.60
Male Kids Sold (8% dead) lb $ 1.50 30 $ 41.40
Replacements Sold head $ 130.00 0.5 $ 67.60
Miscellaneous Income  $ 47.00   $ 47.00
Total Receipts       $ 678.60
         
Variable Costs       
Feed Costs       
Concentrates for doe & replacement cwt $ 10.00 9.8 $ 98.00
Kids for meat sold at 30 lbs. cwt $ 12.00 0.4 $ 4.80
Hay ton $ 95.00 0.62 $ 58.90
Milk Fed to Replacements gallon $ 2.41 9.24 $ 22.30
Total Feed Costs      $ 184.00
Other       
Building and Equipment Repairs  $ 6.00   $ 6.00
Bedding (straw) ton $ 50.00 0.15 $ 7.50
Misc. Livestock Supplies  $ 53.00   $ 53.00
Breeding Fees  $ 10.00   $ 10.00
Veterinary Fees  $ 3.00   $ 3.00
Marketing  $ 53.00   $ 53.00
Labor       
Operator hr $ 14.48 13.6 $ 196.93
Repairs, Maintenance and Fuel       
Machinery and Equipment  $ 32.00   $ 32.00
Fuel and oil  $ 5.00   $ 5.00
Sub-Total      $ 550.43
Interest on Operating Capitala   10%  $ 15.96
Total Variable Costs      $ 566.39
Returns Above Var. Costs      $ 112.21
Fixed Costs       
Insurance and Taxes  $ 3.00   $ 3.00
Building and Equipment  $ 10.00   $ 10.00
Land acre $ 50.00 0.1 $ 5.00
Total Fixed Costs      $ 18.00
Total Fixed & Variable Costs      $ 584.39
Management Feesa       $ 40.91
Total Costs      $ 625.30
Net Returns      $ 53.30

aSee text for calculation assumptions.

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