Marketing and Livestock Budgets

Cow Leases

(March 2012) Leasing arrangements may be considered in several situations. Producers can use leases, calf share in particular, to transfer ownership of cows to others over time with possibly less income tax consequences compared to an outright sale. Individuals who are forced to liquidate cowherds may use leases as a means for re-establishing a herd without needing to borrow money for capital purchase. Producers who wish to establish new or expand existing cowherds could examine leasing as an alternative to raising or purchasing cows.

The decision whether to own or lease cows and bulls involves several factors in addition to cost comparison. Learn more.

Previous Articles

• An Example of adding Value to Your Calf Crop (March 2011)
• How Cow Weight and Milk Output Effect Revenue (October 2010)
• What is Silage Worth? (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Purchase Protein Supplements After Comparing Options On a Cost Per Pound of Protein Basis (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: International Beef Marketing (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Economics of Storing Distillers Grains (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Economics of Feeding Ethanol Co-Products (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Calf Finishing Versus Background and Yearling Finishing Systems (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Backgrounding alternatives: Grazing or Feedot? (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Backgrounding and Yearling Finishing Systems: Where’s the Profit? (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Price Risk Management Increasingly Important (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Managing Cattle Facilities to Minimize Mud (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Managing Winter Cattle Facilities to Enhance Comfort (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Feedlot Manure Value (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Calculating Breakeven and Its Use in Decision Making (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Low Cost Heifer Development Strategies (September 2008)
• Profit Tip: Feeding and Marketing Cull Cows (September 2008)
• Factors affecting Sale Price of Calves in Feeder auctions (September 2008)
• Economic Impact of Using High accuracy Genetics in an AI Program (June 2008)
• Effect of Corn Prices on Feeder Cattle and Calf Prices (August 2007)
• Effect of Three Different Hay Feeding Methods on Cow Performance and Wintering Cost (April 2007)
• Production Records for Commercial Cow/Calf Enterprises (March 2007)
• Effects of Three Hay Feeding Methods on Cow Performance and Wintering Cost (March 2007)