TABLE 3. COMPONENT SUBMATRICES OF THE LIVESTOCK FARM MODEL
|
Hired Labor |
Borrow Capital |
Pasture |
Crop |
Beef | ||||
|
Production Transfer |
Buy |
Sell |
RHS | |||||
|
Net Revenue |
-NRa |
-NRa |
-NRa |
-NRa |
-NRa |
-NRa |
NRb | |
|
Labor |
-Ac |
Ac |
Ac |
Ac |
Hd | |||
|
Soils |
Be |
Be |
If | |||||
|
Capital |
Cg |
-C9 |
Cg |
Cg |
C9 | |||
|
Forage |
-Dh |
-Dh |
Dh ⅛1 | |||||
|
Variable Inputs |
-Ei t∈1 |
-Ei | ||||||
|
Sale |
-Fj |
-Fj |
Fj | |||||
|
Accounting |
Gk |
Gk |
Gk | |||||
|
aThese submatrices |
contain costs |
other than for |
land, operator |
labor, risk, management, |
fixed |
machinery |
and fixed | |
equipment.
^This submatrix shows net return to the entire firm unit for the sale of one unit of the product.
cThese submatrices include coefficients of the labor required for each activity.
⅛his submatrix contains hours of operator labor assigned to each time period.
eThis submatrix shows soil requirements for each crop.
⅛his submatrix is the soil resource situation and amount of each soil group.
gThese submatrices show capital requirements of the respective activities and include coefficients for borrowing capital.
⅛hese submatrices include forage production by pastures and crops and the forage required by the beef activities.
1These submatrices allow the purchase of variable inputs for pasture, crop and beef activity utilization.
3These submatrices of coefficients enable selling of beef and crop production.
⅛hese submatrices provide an accounting of machinery use, forage and pasture forage production and livestock forage
requirements in pounds of DM and pounds of DP.
TABLE 4. OPTIMAL ENTERPRISE ORGANIZATION AND FORAGE PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION
FOR A SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA LIVESTOCK FARM
|
Pasture - Crop Plan | |||||||
|
Love Grass Bermuda-Love |
37 Ac. 4 Ac. |
Bermuda-Clover Bermuda-Wheat for |
64 Ac. Bermuda 44 Ac. Grain 237 Ac. Fescue-Clover 95 Ac. |
Native Grain Sorghum |
60 Ac. 115 Ac. | ||
|
Total |
Pasture |
(cwt. DM) 2.6 2.2 1.8 |
Mar.-Apr. 1262 23 |
May-June |
Peri od July-Aug. Sept.-Oct. 1104 927 1704 1214 |
Nov.-Feb. |
Total 6510 |
|
Total |
Hay (cwt |
. DM) 2.2 |
2900 10600 | ||||
|
Livestock Plan | ||||
|
Spring Cow Calf 62 hd. |
Fall Cow Calf 81 hd. Nov |
.-May Steers |
124 hd. | |
|
Period | ||||
|
Total Pasture Needed |
Mar.-Apr. |
May-June July-Aug. Sept.-Oct. |
Nov.-Feb. |
Total |
|
(cwt. DM) | ||||
|
Cows : DM 2.6 |
68 |
130 |
198 | |
|
DM 2.2 |
23 |
2635 1104 927 |
1820 |
6510 |
|
DM 1.8 |
921 794 |
1775 |
3490 | |
|
Steers: DM 2.6 |
1194 |
1012 |
1767 |
3973 |
|
Total Hay Needed (cwt. DM) | ||||
|
Cows: DM 2.2 |
840 |
200 |
1860 |
2900 |
|
DM 1.8 |
40 |
180 |
220 | |
|
Steers: DM 1.8 |
60 |
280 |
60 |
400 |
|
Excess Pasture (cwt. DM) | ||||
|
DM 1.8 |
783 420 |
1203 | ||
|
Excess Hay (cwt. DM) | ||||
|
DM 1.8 |
9840 |
127