08/29/12, 08:57 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: GA & Ala
Posts: 6,207
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Originally Posted by Tom in TN
I don't do chickens so I don't have any idea about the price of chicken feed, but I do feed cattle.
12% feed at the Maury County Farmer's Co-Op is now $320.00 per ton. There has been a constant increase in price for the past 5 or 6 years. It usually goes up about $5.00 every couple of months.
Cattle prices went way up last fall/winter and have now tanked again. One of the calves that I sold last week was a really nice all-black bull calf. It sold for less than $1.00 a pound. I'm going to sell some more calves next week. If the prices are still so low, I'm going to give serious thought to selling off the herd a little at a time and get out completely within a year.
Tom in TN
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Have you thought about advertising that you will sell beef "on the hoof" to folks wishing to buy meat that is "raised naturally"? You could look at how others are doing it, have a contract with the folks paying you so much per month to raise their steer and at the end charge for taking it to the processor and let the customer pick up their beef there or pay you to deliver?
Sounds like a lot of work, but there is money in it, especially if you are close enough to cities (like Huntsville, Atlanta, Nashville, etc) where you could advertise to people who will pay extra to have "homegrown beef". Might research it a bit,
here is a site that lists by city the prices of 1/2 steer, by the cut, etc. Lists price per lb and how many lbs. you get, cut and wrapped.
Product Search - Beef, Huntsville, AL
You can put your city/town in the search engine and look for the type of meat you are interested in.
I can tell y'all that the EarthFare in Huntsville is always packed..last I was there naturally raised grass fed beef was over 12.00 a lb.
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