With expensive calves, competitive production costs, and beef at record highs, the question is unavoidable: is raising calves worthwhile today?

In this new episode of Talks with Experts: The 4 Pillars of Calf Rearing, Diego Ponti lays out the numbers to understand where the opportunities lie and what calculations a producer should make before deciding whether to sell the calf or keep it.

Is it enough for the numbers to add up in the spreadsheet? How many kilos do we need to produce to offset the calf's price? Should we intensify rearing? When is supplementation advisable? Why is feedlot rearing emerging as a competitive alternative today?
A talk to understand the market, but above all, to apply it to the decisions we make every day on the farm.

🎙️ Talks with Experts: The 4 Pillars of Calf Rearing
🐂 Diego Ponti | Livestock Market Analyst and Livestock Business Consultant
🎤 Hosted by: Ivana Vidal
📍 Palermo Rural Exhibition
🤝 A ForoRural production in partnership with Biogénesis Bagó

In this episode, we discuss:
• Calf prices and opportunity cost
• The cost of producing a kilo today
• How to determine whether selling or raising calves is more advantageous
• Intensification and supplementation
• Pasture-based rearing vs. feedlot rearing
• How to move from spreadsheets to the field
• The livestock market and opportunities for producers
• Why not all businesses are for everyone

👉 Want to delve deeper and put these ideas into practice? In ForoRural's Intensive Weaning and Rearing Workshops, we work step-by-step with our experts on various strategies: weaning, nutrition, supplementation, self-feeding, feedlot rearing, health, management, and much more.

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