Table 9.

Economic costs of Brazilian beef production per kg HCW beef conferred by implant use at low, medium or high levels of performance enhancement compared to a control (no implants) scenario

	No implants (NI)		Low (LI)		Medium (MI)		High (HI)
	Cow-calf	Finishing	Cow-calf	Finishing	Cow-calf	Finishing	Cow-calf	Finishing
Mato Grosso
Administration	0.05	0.02	0.04	0.02	0.04	0.02	0.04	0.02
Purchase of animals	0.05	1.09	0.04	0.97	0.04	0.93	0.03	0.89
System maintenance	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.01
Feed	0.15	0.11	0.14	0.10	0.13	0.10	0.13	0.09
Fuel	0.04	0.02	0.04	0.01	0.03	0.01	0.03	0.01
Labor	0.14	0.03	0.13	0.03	0.12	0.03	0.12	0.03
Veterinary medicines	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Implantsa	-	-	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01
Mato Grosso do Sul
Administration	0.05	0.10	0.04	0.09	0.04	0.09	0.04	0.09
Purchase of animals	0.04	1.32	0.03	1.26	0.04	1.23	0.03	1.21
System maintenance	0.04	0.02	0.04	0.02	0.04	0.02	0.03	0.02
Feed	0.08	0.14	0.07	0.14	0.07	0.14	0.07	0.13
Fuel	0.06	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.03
Labor	0.11	0.16	0.10	0.15	0.10	0.15	0.09	0.15
Veterinary medicines	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.01
Implantsa	-	-	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.02
Goias	Feedlot		Feedlot		Feedlot		Feedlot
Administration	0.04		0.03		0.03		0.03
Purchase of animals	3.41		3.03		2.89		2.76
System maintenance	0.02		0.02		0.01		0.01
Feed	1.30		1.10		1.02		0.95
Fuel	0.02		0.02		0.02		0.02
Labor	0.09		0.08		0.07		0.07
Veterinary medicines	0.00		0.00		0.00		0.00
Implantsa	-		0.01		0.01		0.01

^a See Table 6 for implant costs per head.