Livestock
Enterprise budgets help you determine the potential cost and returns associated with a crop or livestock enterprise. Below you will find budgets for a large number of specialty enterprises. Some of the budgets are specific to North Carolina, but most are from other parts of the U.S. and Canada. If a budget does not fit your particular situation most can be updated or modified. We provide assistance to N.C. Cooperative Extension faculty to modify or update budgets to make them applicable to North Carolina circumstances. N.C. Cooperative Extension faculty should contact Blake Brown for more information.
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Livestock
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Beef
Beef Enterprise Budgets – 2008 (Excel worksheets) (PDF)
Source: N.C. State University
Sample Costs for a Cow-calf /Grass-fed Beef Operation – 2004 (PDF)
Source: University of California, Davis
ORGANIC Sample Costs for an Organic Cow-calf Beef Operation – 2005 (PDF)
Source: University of California, Davis
Direct-to-the-Consumer Beef Marketing Handbook (HTML)
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Goat-Dairy
ORGANIC Costs and Returns for Dairy Goat – 1996 (HTML)
Source: Rutgers University
Goat (Meat Goat)
Meat Goat Enterprise Budget – 2009 (PDF)
Source: Clemson University
Estimated Costs and Returns – 2009 (PDF)
Source: Clemson University
Meat Goat Enterprise Budgets – 2003 (Excel Worksheet)
Source: University of Kentucky
Meat Goat Herd Projected Annual Budget – 2009 (Excel Worksheet)
Source: University of Missouri
Meat Goat Production and Budgeting – 2002 (PDF)
Source: Ohio State University
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Horse Boarding
Horse Boarding Budget – 1999 (Excel Worksheet) (PDF)
Source: Ohio State University
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Sheep/Lamb
Ewe and Lamb Budget – 2008 (Excel Worksheet)
Source: Ohio State University
Feeder Lamb Production Budget – 2002 (Excel Worksheet) (PDF)
Source: Ohio State University
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