Table 1 Financial performance (€/ha) of the farms participating in the Teagasc/Farmers Journal BETTER farm programme, Teagasc client farmers completing eProfit Monitors (ePM) and NFS 1 for cattle rearing farms (2009 and 2010) 2
From: Herd health status and management practices on 16 Irish suckler beef farms
2009 | 2010 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BETTER farms | 3Teagasc ePM | 4NFS | BETTER farms | 5Teagasc ePM | 6NFS | |
Gross output | 1057 | 849 | 414 | 1276 | 905 | 446 |
Variable costs | 637 | 536 | 306 | 713 | 562 | 305 |
Gross margin | 419 | 313 | 108 | 563 | 344 | 141 |
Fixed costs | 470 | 485 | 338 | 467 | 472 | 366 |
Net margin | -40 | -172 | -230 | 103 | -128 | -225 |