Using a Cattle Breakeven Calculator to determine profitability on finished cattle

How much profit could your finished cattle bring in? How much loss is possible? To answer that, you need to know your cattle breakeven rate: how much you need to make from cattle sales to cover production costs.

Using the Cattle Breakeven Calculator below, enter your cattle’s starting weight, estimated selling price (or futures), and cost of gain. The computed rate will be the minimum price you need to sell at to cover your costs. Use this to make better business decisions about feed efficiency, herd productivity, reinvestment opportunities, and more.