Will it be profitable to creep feed in 2023?

This week we revisit the question of the profitability of creep feeding. As a rule of thumb, in most circumstances involving a commercial cow/calf operation, creep feeding is not cost effective. Managing your cattle operation as a business enterprise should always be based economics. Evaluating the current cost of inputs versus the value those inputs create is the only logical way to accurately assess profit potential. In the case of creep feeding versus profitability, this gets interesting because: