Calculators
Every calculator, in one place.
13 free tools today and more every couple of weeks. Each one shows its arithmetic on the same page, works on a phone, and never asks you to sign up.
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Cattle
Cattle hubMarkets
Cattle prices by state
This week's feeder, cow and bull averages, nationally and for every state USDA reports.
What's my calf worth?
Enter a weight, get this week's average and what that animal is worth a head.
Steer–heifer spread coming
How far heifers trail steers by weight class, and when it is unusual.
Seasonal history coming
Where this week sits against the same week in past years.
Buy/Sell Decisions
Cattle Square
Sell one weight class, buy back another: what the pounds between them pay you against your cost of gain.
Cost of gain
Feed, grass, vet, interest and death loss over the days on feed, to what each pound of gain really costs.
Net price comparison
Sale barn, direct or freezer sale, each with its own shrink, commission and hauling: the highest net, not the highest price.
Cow depreciation coming
What a cow costs you each year she stays in the herd.
What a bred female is worth coming
Her value from the calves she will raise, against what the market asks.
Retained ownership coming
Sell at weaning, or background them first?
Cull cow: sell or feed coming
Sell her now, or add weight ahead of the spring rise?
LRP premium estimator coming
What Livestock Risk Protection costs a head, and the floor it buys.
Feed & Grazing
Winter hay needs
Head, weight and days to bales and tons needed, with waste, and what it will cost.
Stocking rate & AUM coming
Acres and forage to animal units and grazing days.
Feed cost per nutrient coming
Compare hay, cubes and grain on protein and energy, not price per ton.
Pasture rent coming
Per acre, per AUM and per head per month, and back again.
Breeding
Gestation & due date
Breeding date or bull-in to bull-out, to due date and calving, lambing, kidding, farrowing or foaling window.
Breeding season planner coming
Pick a calving window, get bull turnout and pull dates.
Quick Calculators
Price & weight converter
$/cwt to $/lb to $/head and back, plus pounds, hundredweight and kilos.
Shrink & pay weight
Scale weight and pencil shrink to pay weight, and what the shrink really does to your price.
Weight from heart girth coming
Estimate live weight with a tape.
Trailer & pen capacity coming
How many head fit, by average weight.
Sheep & Goats
Sheep & Goats hubMarkets
Lamb & goat prices
This week's lamb and goat auction averages from USDA by weight, with the move on last week.
Lamb vs goat spread
What goat kids bring over lambs of the same weight this week.
Holiday demand calendar
The holidays that move lamb and goat demand, the weights buyers want, and the date to breed by to have them ready.
Buy/Sell Decisions
Cost of gain
Feed, grass, vet, interest and death loss over the days on feed, to what each pound of gain really costs.
Freezer lamb & goat
Live weight to hanging weight and take-home meat, and what each pound in the freezer really cost.
Net price comparison
Sale barn, direct or freezer sale, each with its own shrink, commission and hauling: the highest net, not the highest price.
Sheep & goat square coming
The sell/buy square for lambs and kids.
Feed & Grazing
Breeding
Gestation & due date
Breeding date or bull-in to bull-out, to due date and calving, lambing, kidding, farrowing or foaling window.
Lambing & kidding economics coming
Lambing rate, twins and weaning weight to what a ewe or doe earns.
Quick Calculators
Hogs
Hogs hubMarkets
Hog & feeder pig prices coming
USDA national hog and feeder pig averages.
Buy/Sell Decisions
Feeder pig breakeven coming
Purchase, feed and conversion to breakeven and expected profit.
Feed & Grazing
Show pig planner coming
Today's weight to show weight by the date: the daily gain and feed it takes.
Breeding
Quick Calculators
Horses
Horses hubFeed & Grazing
Winter hay needs
Head, weight and days to bales and tons needed, with waste, and what it will cost.
Horse hay & grain coming
Weight and workload to daily hay and grain, and the monthly bill.
Breeding
Quick Calculators
Horse weight from a tape coming
Heart girth and body length to an estimated weight.
