Cooking & Food
Hanging Weight (Beef Yield) Calculator
Convert live or hanging weight to take-home beef pounds and your true cost per pound.
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Take-home beef
524 lbs
≈ 806 lbs hanging → 524 lbs of packaged beef. Total $4,312 works out to $8.23/lb of take-home meat.
True cost per lb of meat
$8.23/lb
Hanging weight
806 lbs
Total cost
$4,312
About this calculator
Buying a beef share is priced on hanging (carcass) weight — about 62% of live weight — but you take home only 60–65% of that after aging, deboning and trim. Your real price per pound is total cost ÷ packaged pounds, typically 1.5–1.7× the quoted hanging price.
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