Cattle
Cattle, from the sale bill to the calving book.
What cattle brought this week, the Cattle Square for deciding what to sell and what to buy back, and the everyday arithmetic of running cows and calves.
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Markets
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.