Brownsey P., Oviedo J.L., Huntsinger L. & Allen-Diaz B. (2013) Historical Forage Productivity and Cost of Capital for Cow-Calf Production in California. Rangeland Ecology & Management 66(3): 339-347
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Abstract. Exposure of livestock grazing to forage productivity variation and to market fluctuations affects the risk of investment and returns from cow-calf operations, but little work has been done to empirically compare these returns to the returns that would be demanded by financial markets from assets with similar risk and return characteristics. This study uses historical forage production data from three rangeland locations in California, and cattle and hay prices, to simulate financial statements for three hypothetical cow-calf producers in the period 1988–2007.