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MLA cost of production calculator (beef)

An interactive, 'do-it-yourself' tool to help beef producers figure out their cost of production (CoP) and compare their performance annually.

Cost of production calculator

This recently updated tool now has a “save and send” feature that allows you to label and save any number of CoP ‘runs’ for future reference. You can stop mid-session, save and resume again at a later date, and you can even share your results with others via email.

Open the CoP calculator to use online

Download the CoP calculator to your computer (2.2 MB)  
NB: To download click save when asked

Need help using the calculator?

View the on-line interactive tutorial 

This step-by-step tutorial takes you through:

  • using the calculator
  • defining cost of production
  • identifying the correlation between cost of production and profit; and
  • demonstrating what the cost of production calculator can do.

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