Just bought a quarter cow....$3.35 a pound

Jersey steer no horns just on the smaller side ~800 lbs. Cross looks like a full Angus no brown on him.

I will be asking $3.50 a pound hanging weight on the four steers I have to butcher. I also have a bull who is no longer needed he will be lean burger at $3 a pound in the package. I have customers lined up for most of it but not going to butcher till September. Hay is high and hard to find here this year but beef is high good time to sell.

Not around here! You buy either a front quarter or a hind quarter.

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We just got a small one all ground into burger & it ended up being $2.82 per pound.

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This is a much more reasonable price...

I should say it depends on where you live. Not having year around grass makes beef much more expensive.

I don't know how anybody is making any money with the prices posted on this thread. Feeders are going for almost $2.00lb and climbing, not to mention the price of supermarket beef. Even the cheapest hamburger at Walmart is $4.00lb

I raise black angus, very good stock. I get them as feeders because I don't winter them over, hay costs too much. I did good this year @ $1.45 average, they almost double their weight until slaughter. Now I have a vet to pay because they are on a optimal feeding program for the best meat production, feed and hay ration plus pasture, pasture maintaining and management costs and of coarse time. We won't include the cost of buildings, power for fences or anything else.

Now for butchering costs, $100.00 kill fee and .90lb cut, vacuum packed 2 week dry aged USDA inspected.

Costs me more to raise one steer than most of the prices listed here. I'm not in the business of raising cheap beef, our customers want to know where their food came from as well as expect high quality.

Even if I charged $8.00lb which I don't it's still a better option than buying steaks at the grocery store or meat market for $14.99lb. Last time I was in whole foods grass feed filet was $30.00lb and dry aged t bones were $25.99lb. Hell even the hamburger was $9.00lb at those prices a split side of beef for $7.00lb is more than reasonable.

I know the price of groceries varies greatly by state/region, but the cheap hamburger here is going for $2.50/pound. OTOH, I was looking at cube steak today (which is usually frankenmeat, different cuts knit together) and it was going for $5.55/pound. Actual steaks are going for lots more $$$.

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Grass fed is alright if the genetics of the animal is conducive to being grass fed. We run yearling and then grain for 90 days and to me that give the best of both worlds. For strictly grass fed and to get good quality beef you need an animal that will mature at 800 to 900 pounds. You can get marbling on good grass fed beef, but most cattle raisers have cattle that mature at 1200+ pounds and most will not make good grass fed.

Bob

Oh my goodness-

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We paid .99 a lb on the hoof for half

We then butchered with a friend who bought the other half.

I don't know about price of beef but cows here are sky high. Went to an auction and he was selling a cow calf pair and 2 unbred heifers. The pait went for 2450.00 and the heifers went for 1500.00 each.

We get our beef here in Oregon for $2.85 hanging. Just got another 1/4 to add on to my dwindling supply. Ours is 100% grass fed, since grass grows here year round.

My rancher told me that the cost of organic grass seed is through the roof lately so expect prices for that sort of beef to continue to increase.

I was initially skeptical of grass fed (that it might be hype), but the bones rendered the most gorgeous fat (as part of making stock). I read that smooth, creamy white fat is indicative of a good hunk of cow. And the fat smelled clean and unadulterated. It's the first time I really investigated that part of the process and actually kept the fat.