Cost Comparison

Dry matter fed/day	Cost per tonne milk replacer	Price per litre of milk	Cost of feeding milk replacer/day	Cost of feeding cows milk/day	Saving using milk replacer
450 g/day	£1,500	28 p/l	67.50p	£1.40	£40.32
500 g/day	£1,500	28 p/l	75.00p	£1.40	£36.40
550 g/day	£1,500	28 p/l	82.50p	£1.40	£31.92
600 g/day	£1,500	28 p/l	90.00p	£1.40	£28.00
650 g/day	£1,500	28 p/l	97.50p	£1.40	£23.52
700 g/day	£1,500	28 p/l	£1.050	£1.40	£19.60
750 g/day	£1,500	28 p/l	£1.125	£1.40	£15.40

*Assumes cows milk is 12.5% dry matter. Assumes weaning at 56 days