What Ring Price doesHide
- $Your walk-away bid for each weight, at each barn near you, after freight home.
- ⚑At the ring, type the weight and the called bid: under or over your limit.
- ▤Your plan and cash by month, with a lender view and one-page PDF.
- ⎙A printable cheat sheet of every weight and barn for sale day.
- ✓Saves on this phone. No account needed.
Cattle lots
Your purchases, deaths, shipments and re-weighs in one place: who's on hand, what they cost, where they are.
Lots live in your account, so only you see them. Accounts are off for now, so lots can't be saved yet. Your plans still save on this phone.
Informational only, not advice. Your numbers + USDA prices. Sources
Where the selling defaults come from (type your own on the plan):
- Sale shrink 2%. USDA prices Texas direct feeder cattle on net weights after a 2-3% shrink. We use the low end, 2%. Cattle hauled to a barn and weighed off the truck lose about this much. USDA AMS Texas Direct Cattle Report (AMS_2710), week ending Nov 6, 2026
- Commission 2.5%. Texas sale barns usually charge 3-4% of the gross. Posted Texas schedules show 4% with a $20/head minimum. We use 2.5% as a typical default, a little under those schedules, because load lots, video sales and flat per-head fees often come in lower. Type your barn's rate. Texas A&M thesis, Changes in Texas Livestock Auction Markets 1969-2014 (3-4%); Gulf Coast Livestock Auction posted fees (4%, $20/hd min) · posted fees
- Selling costs $45/head. Checkoff, yardage, brand inspection and trucking out, per head sold. Texas A&M's 2024 Rolling Plains grazeout stocker budget carries $23/head marketing before trucking. This is our estimate. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, 2024 Stocker Calf Budget, Grazeout, Rolling Plains (D3)
Bid limits come from your own numbers, past USDA-reported barn sales (Cownty's head-weighted averages of USDA AMS lots) and CME feeder futures settlements as printed in USDA's daily LSPDFSS report, held flat to your sell date. They are not a forecast or a quote. Interest is an estimate under the terms on the plan, not a lender statement. Check with the barn and your lender before you buy.