NZX Agrifax is a commercial information service which provides New Zealand agricultural prices and other primary product prices using an extensive agricultural price database. Our database includes New Zealand lamb prices, beef prices, and venison prices, New Zealand wheat prices, dairy product prices including butter, casein and skim milk prices, New Zealand wool prices, forestry log prices, pine log prices, rural finance, fish prices and more.

To work out various costs and profits of rearing calves, enter your estimated figures for costs, production and bobby cost in the boxes. If you are using whole milk just enter 0 for the powder milk options. The default numbers used are only examples and you can alter any boxes in white.

Costs of Rearing $/calf Powder milk kgs  at $/kg   or Whole milk litres  at c/litre Meal  kgs  at $/kg Animal Health  Tags    Losses  % Bedding    Interest  % Other incl power, hay, buildings etc Total Rearing Costs $		Production   Start wt  Avg growth/day  Time to reach 100kg (weeks)    Target Growth Reckoner   Start wt  Target time (weeks) Required LWG/day to reach 100kg    Copyright © 2001 NZX Agrifax		Financial Profit Basis $/calf Bobby cost (landed) Rearing costs  Sale Price (net) Profit    Breakeven Basis   Bobby cost  Rearing costs  Profit Required  Net Price Needed
Note: No allowance is made for labour or pasture.

Milk and Meal cost Reckoner   size kgs $/bag $/kg Milk  $ Meal  $

Growth Rate Reckoner weeks lwg/day End Target (kgs) 1 2-4 4-8 8-12 Average growth rate