CPH-45

The tag line on the CPH-45 website states: “The Kentucky Certified Pre-Conditioned for Health (CPH-45) program was created with the support of Kentucky's 38,000 beef producers generating a proven track record. This premium program has increased the quality and value of Kentucky beef cattle ensuring that CPH-45 calves can be bought with confidence.”  No doubt the CPH program has improved KY cattle and it’s helped our backgrounders and feedlots but it’s impact to our county producers is what interests most producers.   As primarily cow calf producers we all strive to produce a profitable calf (for us) that also   performs for the next market segment, but the end goal is for that added consistency and performance to translate into dollars at the farm gate.

The 2023 CPH sale season saw 431 head of Trigg County Calves marketed through the three Guthrie CPH sales. According to the last CPH- PVAP closeout summary report producers could expect to add about $98 per head after expenses to their calves over weaning and selling straight off the cow.  This amounts to $42,238 additional revenue coming back to our producers for adopting practices that will improve their calves chances of success further down the production chain.  For a 60-day preconditioning commitment most would agree it’s a good investment.