The article is based on data and analysis of the results of the calculations of the flow of material resources for the maintenance and repair of machinery and equipment of cattle farms and facilities in the Republic of Belarus from 80-90-ies of XX century to the present day. The paper sets out the methodology and developed standards of resource consumption per conventional unit of complexity of modern staffs of technical service. The importance and relevance of the topic is directly dictated by the need to find solutions to economic problems for cheaper livestock production and as a way of solving this problem - the use of standards in the maintenance of livestock equipment in order to save material resources for livestock farms and complexes in the present conditions of the free market.