Source
ARP reference table
The kilos of beef per hectare and per year come from the ranges published by the Asociación Rural del Paraguay for each zone, both on native rangeland and on sown pasture. We use the midpoint of each range.
Open tool
How much can your ranch produce?
Enter the area, the zone and how much sown pasture you have. We give you back the kilos of beef per hectare, the stocking rate in cow equivalents and the head it sustains, with the reference ranges from the Asociación Rural del Paraguay.
What it can yield
- Production per hectare
- — kg of beef per ha and per year
- Total production
- — kg of beef per year
- Estimated stocking rate
- — cow equivalents per hectare (EV/ha)
- Head it sustains
- — in cow equivalents
- Estimated gross income
- — annual production × price per kilo. Does not deduct costs.
01The assumptions
What numbers this calculation is built on
We prefer to show the assumptions rather than sell a precision the tool does not have.
Cow equivalent
165 kg per cow equivalent per year
A cow equivalent is, according to the ARP, a 400 kg cow that raises a calf to 160 kg at weaning, or a 410 kg steer that gains 500 g per day. That is where the reference annual production per animal comes from.
Mix
Weighting by area
If you set 60% sown pasture, the result weights 60% of the pasture yield and 40% of the native rangeland yield. It is a simplification: on a real ranch, water, paddock layout and pasture condition all have an effect.
This is a reference estimate, not a project. It does not replace a field survey: real stocking capacity depends on the condition of the pastures, on the watering points, on the paddock layout and on the infrastructure. And one clarification that matters to us: we do not calculate margin or profitability because in Paraguay there is no national reference cost of production per kilo —the ARP itself acknowledges it as a pending task—. The real cost is calculated on the numbers of each establishment.
From the number to the ranch
The fine calculation is done standing in the paddock.
We go to your ranch, survey pastures, watering points and infrastructure, and hand you the report with the real stocking capacity and the three improvements that pay off most.