What's inside the price per kg

One finished Angus, sold as premium direct boxes. The customer pays per kg of meat in the box — so the whole chain from calf to doorstep comes out of that price. Figures per animal, with per-kg-of-meat in brackets. SEK, ex-VAT, planning estimates.

600 kg live → the animal

320 kg carcass 53% dressing

224 kg saleable meat 70% of carcass — rest is bone/fat/trim

250 SEK/kg box price × 224 kg = 56,000 revenue

From box price down to what you keep — per animal

Each orange step is a cost bucket taken out of the 56,000 box revenue. Blue = profit; green = subsidy added on top.

Revenue / profit

Cost taken out

Subsidy added

The honest headline: of the 250 SEK/kg a customer pays, about 189 goes to costs (95 to raising the animal, 53 to slaughter+cutting+packaging, 22 to delivery+marketing, 19 to overhead). That leaves ~61 SEK/kg operating profit; subsidies add ~71 SEK/kg on top → ~133 SEK/kg net to you as owner-operator. If you had to pay someone to do the raising, packing and selling, knock off ~56 SEK/kg → ~77 SEK/kg as a true standalone business.

Every cost the price has to cover

Two things this makes clear. (1) The price is on meat weight, and a 320 kg carcass only yields ~224 kg of saleable meat — so revenue per animal is lower than "carcass × box price." (2) The calf isn't purchased in a cow-calf herd; its cost is the amortised upkeep of the breeding cow (and bull) that produced it, spread over ~0.87 calves per cow per year — that's the bulk of the "raising" bucket, alongside ~20 months of feed. The biggest levers on your margin: meat yield (a good butcher and using bones/fat for broth/mince), and how much delivery and marketing you do cheaply yourself (REKO pickup ≈ free) versus paying couriers and ads. Assumes leased land, outdoor wintering, organic + naturbete; subsidy allocated per animal from a 30-cow herd. Estimates for planning, not financial advice.