Cattle Budgeting Tutorial

Center for Agricultural Profitability · Sep 30, 2026

In this tutorial video, Glennis McClure, Extension Educator with the Center for Agricultural Profitability, walks through CAP's cattle enterprise budget resources and the Ag Budget Calculator. She starts on the CAP website, showing sample cow-calf, replacement heifer, and backgrounding budgets for different regions of Nebraska, and explains how each one breaks down revenue, feed costs, and ownership expenses on both a cash and economic basis. She then demonstrates the Ag Budget Calculator itself, showing viewers how to create an account, download a university sample budget, copy it into their…