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Picking up my beef !! #7175995
02/10/21 12:50 AM
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Ok I am still just scratching my head at why people keep paying the outrageous beef prices. I will pick up my second beef in 10 months in the morning. It weighed 1246 lbs on the hoof . I'm getting around 537 lbs of beef. T bones, ribeyes, sirloins, round steak, roast , and burger. My cost is 1,640 bucks. That comes out to about 3.01per lb. THATS steaks everything. I looked at Kroger this evening and ribeyes were 16.99 lb. T bones 13.99 burger is 4.99 a lb !!!! My cost is with them furnishing the steer . All I do is show up with the money !!!!! I placed my order mid August of 2020...
I'll give final count on number of steaks I end up with . Last one the sirloins were as big as a hub cap and I never cared too much for that cut. But my son was taking one home every visit so I cooked the last one MMMMM Dang good.
First one I ordered back in April when the meat shortage hit. It took 5 weeks to get it from time I ordered .
Also this butcher sells a 300 lb hog for 350 bucks. !!
Chicken quarters for 50 cents a lb .
Same guys butcher all my deer. Yes they are amish .

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Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176004
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[Linked Image]

This is on sale LOL 6.26 lbs

Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176009
02/10/21 01:02 AM
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Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176014
02/10/21 01:04 AM
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Good way to buy meat. We ground and wrapped 50 packages of venison burger yesterday as we are almost out of beef hamburger from the last 1/4 we purchased.

Chris


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Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176015
02/10/21 01:05 AM
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Good deal on the beef
Congratulations

Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176023
02/10/21 01:12 AM
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Are they willing to dry age it for you? If they are and you let them hang one for a while you will prolly spaz out b/c it is a lot better. If they make me pay a little upcharge for hangin it past 14 days I gladly do it every time.


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Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176029
02/10/21 01:24 AM
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We rarely buy beef since moose, caribou, and bison are plentiful up here, but we did buy half a beef last spring. Cost us $1700 total for HALF a beef!


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Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176075
02/10/21 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by jbyrd63
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This is on sale LOL 6.26 lbs


That is crazy. And reminds me I have to go knock down a moose yet this winter. I cant remember the last time I ate beef.

Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176080
02/10/21 06:23 AM
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Because it seems cheaper to buy spend a few bucks at a time then to drop a good lol bit for a long period of time.

My family raises beef cattle and it boggles my mind to this day why we don't just take one or two of them to the butcher every year and just eat offa that .

Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176087
02/10/21 06:42 AM
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Wolfdog, don't forget to feed corn before you butcher. I know grass fed is the new in thing but venison is for when your in the mood for lean meat. Beef and hogs need corn.

Walmart here has leg quarters for 60 cents a pound. You can't raise chickens that cheaply. Come in 10 pound bags. We put meal sized portions in vacuum bags and freeze. Bags probably add a nickel a pound to the cost.


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Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: danny clifton] #7176097
02/10/21 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
Wolfdog, don't forget to feed corn before you butcher. I know grass fed is the new in thing but venison is for when your in the mood for lean meat. Beef and hogs need corn.

Walmart here has leg quarters for 60 cents a pound. You can't raise chickens that cheaply. Come in 10 pound bags. We put meal sized portions in vacuum bags and freeze. Bags probably add a nickel a pound to the cost.


There's a reason why walmart chicken is that cheap. No thanks, I know what I'm getting with my home raised meat birds.

Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176100
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its because chicken breast can be sold much higher. more demand. i dont like chicken breast. to dry


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Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176103
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Because if you actually do the math, it makes more sense to just buy the specific cuts you want then to buy the entire beef. Most cattlemen I know don’t even butcher their own, its not worth the cost to feed one. I do my own because I like to butcher, but even with no processing costs it still doesn’t pencil out. And I’ll only consider butchering one that I know I’ll take a beating on at the sale. Any good steer goes to the sale.
And we eat a lot of roasts, most people don’t need near as many as comes from a whole beef. Same for burger, its way more than most people want. Makes better financial sense to buy steaks when you want them.

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Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176104
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P.S. Crit R Dun, I've been to many many commercial chicken processing plants and barns and feed mills. I do like the eggs my daughter and her husband collect from their free ranging birds. When you feed your meat birds feed from a bag, they are no different than what Tyson is butchering.


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Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: danny clifton] #7176106
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
P.S. Crit R Dun, I've been to many many commercial chicken processing plants and barns and feed mills. I do like the eggs my daughter and her husband collect from their free ranging birds. When you feed your meat birds feed from a bag, they are no different than what Tyson is butchering.


This is exactly right. I’ve raised them too and they taste no different. Only difference is they cost about 3x as much.

Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176108
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M Magis, I dont get all the roasts. I have them steak out the shoulders (chuck) and the premium steaks. Whole brisket. A few eye of round roasts. The rest gets ground including heart and tongue. Lean burger is at 4-5 bucks a pound.

I wish veal was still popular. I really like calf liver. Haven't seen any for sale in a long while. Used to be cheap and available at any store that sold meat.


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Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176127
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Storage is the other big issue. Even if it penciled out, not many people want to give up that much freezer space. Mine last year took up 90% of my old 25 sf chest freezer.

Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176145
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Ground corn and oat finished beef. Filled two freezers with our 1500+ fat steer. Been eating steaks for all three meals different days. I prefer cast iron skillet, large pad of butter, high heat, shake of Tony Cacheres creole seasoning on each side, and 3 minutes per side. Let sit a minute or two and devour. I traded a steer calf in on the deal and I think we have just under $2/lb on our finished beef. I paid the finisher $1.10 live weight and traded my calf in for $750. My wife wanted everything, so we hauled home the organs and even all the beef fat.

Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176148
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Yes storage is not cheap. But just the high cost of burger will pencil out the cost of electricity. to many people have to have profit from the grocery store beef.

The guy selling calves, the trucker hauling calves to the feed lot. the feedlot, the trucker hauling commodities to the feed lot, the trucker hauling fat cattle to the processer, the processer, the trucker hauling beef to the distribution center, the distribution center, the trucker hauling groceries to the retail outlet, and finally the retail outlet.

Electricity and a freezer is still cheaper than all that. At least I think it is.


Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Re: Picking up my beef !! [Re: jbyrd63] #7176236
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I am not sure how you are paying 1.32$ per pound hanging weight, which includes processing! Around hear your going to be paying around 4$ minimum hanging weight with processing fees separate.

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