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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.
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My cattle plan

Four steps. Every bid limit comes from these numbers; skip what you don't know and the examples hold.

Plan type:WheatSummer grass Feedyard

Winter wheat stocker. Same interest on actual draws and the same lender view as every plan. Switching type starts from that type's example numbers.

1The cattleSteers · 400/500 lb · 250 mi · 100 hd

Plan name

Steers or heifers

Buy weights (lb)Up to 6, like 400, 500. Rounded to the nearest 50.

Home countyMiles and freight run from here.

Or type a ZIP, or use your location (rounded, used once to pick the county, not saved).

Barns within (mi)

Head to buy

Buying costs — 0 if you have none

Buyer fee per head ($)Order buyer, sorting, brand check.

Order-buyer fee per cwt ($)If the buyer charges by weight.

Haul-in shrink they don't gain back (%)Calves lose weight on the trip home. Most of it comes back; put only the part that does not, often 0 to 3%.

2Growing them45d yard + 120d wheat · 3.0% loss · 8.0% interest

Receiving yard

Days

Gain, lb/day

Cost per head per day ($)Feed, hay and yardage while they settle in.

Wheat pasture

Days

Gain, lb/day

Cost per pound gained ($)Pasture rent, usually charged per pound the cattle put on.

Or rent per head per month ($)If grass or wheat is rented by the head instead, or on top. Counted on the wheat days only. 0 if the line above covers it.

Your time and equipment

Labor, yardage and equipment per head per day ($)Your own hours, fuel, feeding and checking, every day on feed. 0 leaves them out, which makes the bid look higher than it is.

Risk & money

Vet and processing per head ($)

Death loss (%)Out of 100 head bought, how many you expect not to sell. This is not a second charge on top of the missing sale.

Interest rate (% per year)Annual rate on principal actually drawn. Not the unused line.

The note — estimates until they match your loan

Day countNo convention is assumed to be universal. The name on the page is the one used.

Interest during the turnA monthly statement is not the same as adding interest to principal.

When feed and vet are borrowedCost date is not an advance date unless you pick that estimate.

Share of the cattle check that is borrowed (%)The rest is your cash. It is still a cost. It does not earn bank interest here.

Share of feed, vet, and freight that is borrowed (%)Share of feed, vet, and freight drawn on the line.

Return you want on your own cash (% per year)What your own cash could earn elsewhere. Charged from the day it goes in. 0 leaves it out.

Feed if some die

Days from ship date to note payoffZero means the note is paid the day they ship. Interest runs to payoff, not to the day feed was eaten.

Line limit for this lot ($)Blank if you do not want a line check. Interest is never charged on the unused room.

Sale checkThis form does not collect a principal paydown before the sale.

What-if bands — ours, not a forecast

What-if: sale price move ($/cwt)

What-if: feed cost move (%)

What-if: daily gain move (lb)

What-if: wheat days move

What-if: death loss move (points)

What-if: interest rate move (points)

3Selling themauto month · $50/hd goal

Sell month (YYYY-MM, blank = automatic)

Selling costs per head sold: checkoff, trucking out ($)

Commission on the gross sale (%)Percent of the gross sale, once. Posted Texas barn schedules show 3–4%; the default is 2.5%, a typical figure. Type your barn's rate, or 0 if a flat fee is in the dollar line above.

Sale shrink (%)Weight lost before the scale, applied once. USDA prices Texas cattle after a 2–3% shrink; the default is 2%. Use 0 only if your sale weight is already payweight.

Profit you want per head bought ($)Profit left per head after every cost. 0 = break even. Most buyers use 25 to 75.

Price floor (LRP) — optional estimate

Livestock Risk Protection is USDA price insurance. It pays if the CME feeder index ends under your coverage price. Your barn price can still come in lower (basis), so the floor here is an estimate. Buy it through a crop-insurance agent.

Use a price floor

USDA RMA offer for TX, Nov 13, 2026: feeder steers weight 2 (600–1,000 lb), 26 weeks to May 14, 2027: 95.0% covers $313.16/cwt; you pay about $8.15/cwt after the 35% USDA subsidy (400 lb buy). Blank boxes below use these. Estimate from USDA RMA Texas state-level LRP rates, Nov 13, 2026. Your crop-insurance agent's quote is what counts.

LRP coverage level (%)USDA offers about 70–100%. Higher coverage costs more per cwt.

LRP coverage price ($/cwt, blank = USDA RMA today)Blank = USDA RMA today for your sell weight and month.

LRP premium you pay ($/cwt, blank = RMA cost after subsidy)What you pay after subsidy, per cwt insured. Blank = RMA cost after subsidy. Beginning and veteran ranchers often get 10 points more subsidy.

4Costs & price settingsfreight, futures, slide, cushions — fine as-is for most

Freight per loaded mile ($)What the trucker charges per loaded mile.

Pounds per truckload

Feeder futures for your sell month ($/cwt, blank = USDA report)Blank = the CME settlement USDA printed today (feeder Nov/Jan/Mar).

Price slide per 100 lb from 750 lb ($/cwt)Heavier cattle bring less per pound; this slides futures per 100 lb away from 750 lb.

Heifers: discount under steers ($/cwt)

Opening bid: at least this far under the limit ($/cwt)

Opening bid: at most this far under the limit ($/cwt)

Call it 'Close' when under the limit by less than ($/cwt)

Corn price ($/bu, reference)USDA printed CBOT corn Dec at $4.46/bu today. Reference only: the feedyard plan uses your cost of gain.

Try shows your limits right away and keeps the numbers in the link. Save on this phone keeps them in this browser, no account.

What's saved?

Save on this phone keeps the plan in this browser only. Nothing is sent to Cownty, and clearing the browser's site data erases it. Your last ring check is kept the same way. New accounts are off for now.

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.