That's not bad. Hamburger is $4.89/# at my local meat market.

The processor I get mine through lately does whole hogs at $1.99/# hanging weight and beef at $4.99/#. That includes processing. Extra fee for smoked stuff like bacon/hams/smoked pork chops

Buying in bulk like this from a private cattle person and having it processed is the way to go.

Unfortunately, not all of us live where there is access to elk. Just deer here.

My wife always liked her hamburg lean! the last couple years it's has more fat in it.
She complained to me about it,and i said if you threw that fat away at 4.70 per lb it
wouldn't be very profitable.

I was curios to see what the inflation calculator said

I ran 400 pounds x 3 dollars for the 2017 start your weight fluctuates but I used a nice round 400 pounds
2017 = 1200.00
2018 = 1229.31
2019 = 1251.58
2020 = 1267.03
2021 = 1326.55
2022 = 1432.71
2023 = 1491.68
2024 = 1535.68
2025 = 1576.09
2026 = 1616.58 this would be 4.04 just on inflation so beef is up 66 cents a pound the other 1.04 is just how much less your money is worth. approximately because the 66 cents is also worth less than it would have been in 2017
but closer figuring

A friend of mines brother butchered 3 cows and put them up himself, a LOT of work, but well worth it. till he found out the hard way a large size home freezer WILL NOT freeze that large a pile of meat. Had to pay a guy to dig a hole to dump it all in.

oh geez.

Ouch....

My family was in the refrigeration business , since about the time they were invented, before they went all commercial they sold a lot of appliances to homeowners, one of the complaints they would occasionally get was some farmer say the chest freezer isn't working...find out he had just loaded it up with a freshly butchered hog, lol

Yep, they ain't designed for that....

Just got a txt. My cow was 1090lb×2.25 lb so $ 2452.50 for the cow not sure how much processing g will add to that yet.