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I am looking for beef production benchmarks: pregnancy rates, calving rates, weaning rates, first service conception rates, 205-day weaning weights.
The information that you asked for can vary some depending on your location and resources. The production parameters that you asked for are important, but so is the cost to produce a weaned calf.
- Pregnancy rate (60- to 70-day breeding season): 87 to 93%
- Percent calved the first 42 days of the calving season: 75 to 86%
- Percentage calves weaned of cows exposed: 83 to 92%
- Average weaning weight (200 to 220 days, no creep): 475 to 550 lb
These data came from the 1997 Iowa Beef Report and a four-year summary of CHAPS.
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