Pig Profit Calculator

Calculate pig farming profit for a batch from pigs started, sale weight and price, and feed and other costs per pig, or find the price for a target profit.

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Pig Profit Formula

This is a simplified batch budget. S is pigs started, m is the nonmarketed percentage, M is expected marketed pigs and w is average sale weight per marketed pig. Expected M may be fractional. Feed and other variable costs are average incurred costs per pig started, including loss-related spending; changing mortality does not automatically reduce these entered costs. Use operation-specific costs as in Iowa State Extension enterprise budgets.

• P is estimated batch profit in your currency, after only the costs entered. F and V are feed and other variable costs per pig started; B is fixed batch cost.
• TR is revenue from expected marketed weight W at sale price p. The calculator converts kg/lb units before multiplying; live, hanging and packaged weights are different selling bases and are not automatically converted.
• TC includes the entered batch costs. Include acquisition, feed, health, labor, facilities, financing, hauling and processing where applicable, without double counting. Enter all amounts in one currency; the calculator does not convert currencies.

Revenue by Selling Channel

Use a quoted price on the same selling-weight basis as the entered weight. The table below contains hypothetical arithmetic illustrations, not current market prices or expected yields. A US cwt is 100 lb, so divide a per-cwt price by 100 before entering a per-lb price. Processing and handling charges belong in the cost budget where applicable.

Typical Cost Breakdown Per Pig

The following cost categories organize hypothetical budgets per pig started. Both amount columns are illustrations, not typical small-farm or commercial prices. Enter your own incurred costs, including acquisition where applicable. Processing is excluded from the displayed totals. Mortality timing can affect actual feed and other spending; this calculator leaves those adjustments in your entered costs rather than predicting them (Iowa State Extension mortality-budget explanation).

How to Calculate Pig Profit

Hypothetical example: one pig is started and sold, with 0% nonmarketed allowance and only the listed costs included. A 280 lb market hog at $0.90/lb live generates $252 in revenue. With total raising costs of $210 (feeder pig $80, feed $95, vet and bedding $35), net profit is $42, a 16.7% margin, with a breakeven of $0.75/lb. At $1.20/lb the same cost structure yields $336 revenue and $126 profit (37.5% margin). These are arithmetic illustrations, not current quotes or a complete farm budget.

Key Performance Benchmarks

Use operation-specific records rather than universal breed, price-premium or production benchmarks. The checks below clarify this budget model; they do not supply commercial performance targets. Profit margin is undefined at zero revenue, return on cost is undefined at zero cost, and a changed mortality assumption does not model the timing of death loss or its cost savings.