Hanwoo Fattening Profit Calculator

Hanwoo profitability starts before the calf is purchased

A calf purchase quote and a shipment receipt describe only the ends of a long feeding period.
Concentrate, roughage, veterinary care, utilities, labor and finance costs determine how much of the eventual carcass revenue remains.
Large sales receipts can hide a loss when feeding lasts longer than expected or own labor is omitted.

This Korea-based Hanwoo fattening calculator supports purchase and shipment planning using a 2026 model and KRW amounts.
It estimates profit per head, the break-even auction price, cohort profit and price/feed sensitivity from your own inputs.
Prices and grade shares are assumptions, not live quotes or forecasts.
The example feeding amounts are not nutritional prescriptions or assurances of animal performance.

Separate purchase age from feeding duration

An extension changes more than time.
Review whether additional feeding changes weight, grade shares, daily intake and other costs.
For cattle already on the farm, combine past and future costs on the same purchase-to-shipment basis when assessing full-period profit.

Feed cost combines daily quantity and price per kilogram

Use consistent delivery and tax-inclusion terms for actual out-of-pocket prices.
Daily amounts use as-fed weight including moisture.
Do not combine dry-matter figures with as-fed quantities without conversion.
Divide a bag quote by its kilograms to obtain a unit price; divide total full-period consumption by feeding days to obtain the daily average.

When early and late fattening differ, use averages representing the full period.
For TMR, allocate its purchase cost consistently without also counting the same ingredients as separate concentrate or roughage.
The calculator does not assess nutritional suitability.
Check moisture, supply terms, leftovers and actual consumption records alongside price.

Cash surplus and profit after all costs answer different questions

Cash surplus equals net settlement receipts minus cash costs before the sales deduction.
Profit after all costs also subtracts noncash values.
A positive cash surplus can therefore coexist with a loss.
Loan principal repayments, capital expenditure, taxes and actual payment timing are excluded: these figures are neither a bank balance nor peak working capital.

Match live weight, dressing percentage and carcass-price units

Assumed cattle shares across quality grades 1++, 1+, 1, 2, 3 and outside grade must total 100%.
Enter prices in KRW per carcass kg and use a zero share for an unused grade.
This model assumes equal carcass weight across grades, so cattle shares can weight the prices.
If grades have different expected weights, assess those revenues separately.
Small-herd expected shares are not allocations to whole animals.

KAPE reports average auction price as total transaction value divided by total traded carcass weight.
Use comparable breed, sex, market, period, A/B/C composition and marbling composition when selecting a reference price.
An overall market average for a different mix may not represent the farm.
Default shares are fictional assumptions rather than official occurrence rates or grade predictions.

Break-even price accounts for sales deductions

Only enter deductions proportional to gross sales; do not also include them in fixed shipment costs.
Break-even price is unavailable when carcass weight is zero or deductions take 100% of sales.
It is not displayed as a zero price in those cases.
Calculations retain intermediate precision; currency results display rounded to whole KRW.

From input records to a saved purchase worksheet

1. Enter head count, calf cost and purchase age from the purchase record, then choose months to shipment.
   
2. Align feed quotes and ledgers to the same weight basis and enter prices and average daily amounts.
   
3. Allocate full-period veterinary, labor, interest, shipment and noncash costs per head, checking for duplicates.
   
4. Enter live weight, dressing percentage, deductions and six grade shares/prices; check that shares total 100%.
   
5. Classify each evidence group as confirmed by you, an assumption or unconfirmed, with a reference date and source note.
   Confirmed is your classification, not certification by this tool.
   
6. Review profit, cash surplus, break-even price and sensitivity, complete the preparation checklist and save a TXT or print the worksheet.
   Editing inputs hides the old result until you calculate again.
   

Unconfirmed evidence holds the calculation.
For future prices, record an explicit assumption and its date rather than treating an uncertain figure as confirmed.
Valid dates, values and shares are required; blanks are not automatically zero.
Inputs and notes are processed in the browser without being saved to a server; a worksheet downloads only when you choose Save.

Worked example: purchasing 10 cattle

Assume a KRW 4,000,000 calf, 24 months of feeding, 8kg/day of concentrate at KRW 600/kg and 2kg/day of roughage at KRW 350/kg.
Other cash costs are KRW 1,150,000 and noncash values KRW 750,000, with 800kg live weight, 60% dressing and 2% sales deductions.
Grade shares are 20/30/30/15/5/0%, at prices of 25,000/22,000/19,000/15,000/11,000/0 KRW/kg.
All example values are fictional rather than current market averages.

Cash surplus is positive at KRW 345,040, yet the noncash values turn the per-head result into a KRW 404,960 loss.
The assumed KRW 20,100/kg price is below break-even, prompting another look at purchase cost, feeding expense and actual shipment records.
Adding cattle simply scales the same per-head outcome; it does not automatically improve profitability.

Read favorable and unfavorable sensitivity cases together

The grade table shows conditional profit if one equal-weight animal ships at each grade.
Read it beside the weighted result to understand the effect of a lower-grade shipment.
Do not turn fractional expected counts into a guaranteed shipment schedule or read the matrix as a price forecast.

Check omissions and the scope of statistical comparisons

• The official 2025 Hanwoo rearing-cost reference is KRW 10,226,000/head, published 2026-05-15 and rounded to thousands of KRW.
  The example total cost is KRW 10,052,960, a −173,040 KRW difference.
  Different cost scope, weight and scale prevent ranking farm performance from this gap.
  
• Official production cost per 100kg live weight and auction price per carcass kg use different denominators.
  The reference neither replaces farm records nor reproduces official net profit.
  
• Breeding-cow operations, livestock insurance, grants, taxes, byproduct revenue, mortality, unshipped cattle and price guarantees are excluded.
  Disease or delayed shipment requires a separate loss review because all cattle are assumed to survive at equal weight.
  
• Use the worksheet for purchase negotiations, feed-contract reviews and family cost discussions.
  Check veterinary and feeding management alongside financing before expanding purchases or extending feeding.
  

Frequently asked questions

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