Examine this €102 per cow bill

Average dairy farm contractor costs were 1.98 cent per litre (c/l) in 2014 (€102 per cow, €221 per hectare, 9% of total costs).

Managing contractor costs is not about simply cutting costs, it may make sense to have a bigger spend in this area, provided that you can reduce your fixed costs.

Consequently, it is important to examine this figure, together with both the machinery operating/deprecation figures and the labour figures (because a contractor may be replacing hired labour, or allowing the farmer to manage more cows).