Update color spreads from a recent sale
Color gaps change from sale to sale. Enter one sale's prices for the same weight class and WeighUp works out each color's spread against black.
Sell now or keep feeding
| Scenario | Sale wt | Days | $/cwt | Net $/hd | vs. sell now | Value of gain | Cost of gain | Breakeven |
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Value of gain is the extra sale value per pound put on. When it beats your cost of gain, keeping the calves adds money. Net is after shrink, commission, feed, pasture, vet, interest and death loss. Feed and costs are set on the Feed & costs tab.
Price slide
Your cattle across the country
| Market | Report | $/cwt | $/head | vs. your local |
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Same weight, class and color, priced at your local market and the major national markets. Freight to a distant barn isn't included.
Market estimate: grower feed for your calves
EstimateUse the price on your feed bill for the finished TMR or mixed feed, or the market estimate above.
Prices fill in from USDA reports; type over any with what you pay. Pounds are per head per day, as-fed. Example ration
| Ingredient | $/ton | DM % | lb fed |
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Cost of gain at your inputs
If feed prices move
| If this goes up | Now $/ton | Feed $/hd/day | Cost of gain | Hold result |
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Most I can pay for calves
For backgrounders: what you could pay today and still break even selling heavier, at today's prices and your feed and costs.
How it's worked out
Sale value at the sell weight (after shrink and commission), minus feed, pasture, vet, interest and death loss for the days on feed, divided back to a price per hundredweight at the buy weight. Hide color and price outlook from the Sell or hold tab apply here too.