This years beef

[tod evans]

I buy a half each year from a friend and pay to have it processed. One of the pay to process bonuses is that I'm able to get 'extras'...This year I got 75# of fat for rendering and 50# of sliced long bones for stock no extra charge..

Anyway..... 371# packaged ran me $685.00.

That's heart-n-liver, steaks, ribs, roasts-n-hamburger....

[Origanalist]

Nice. I have some freezer room, I should go in with some family on one.

[Schifference]

I have a neighbor in SC that is 74. He owns a farm in PA also. He and his dad raised cows. When he has meat he grinds all of it into burger. It stores better when everything is packaged the same size. The hamburger is phenomenal.

[oyarde]

At 1.85 a lb I would say Tod is getting a great deal .

[tod evans]

At 1.85 a lb I would say Tod is getting a great deal .

I paid market for the steer and fifty cents a pound for the butcher, all going rate...

[Danke]

[donnay]

I buy a half each year from a friend and pay to have it processed. One of the pay to process bonuses is that I'm able to get 'extras'...This year I got 75# of fat for rendering and 50# of sliced long bones for stock no extra charge..

Anyway..... 371# packaged ran me $685.00.

That's heart-n-liver, steaks, ribs, roasts-n-hamburger....

That's a great deal.

[tod evans]

Still rendering suet, put up 2 gallons last night.

Gave a friend 15# for which I'll get some home made soap.

Breakfast this morning was 'taters fried in fresh suet and eggs slathered in homemade hotsauce...

[donnay]

Still rendering suet, put up 2 gallons last night.

Gave a friend 15# for which I'll get some home made soap.

Breakfast this morning was 'taters fried in fresh suet and eggs slathered in homemade hotsauce...

You can make a lot of soap with that. Homemade soap is the best!

[Anti Globalist]

I purchase beef as well from an amish farm located in Illinois. Running pretty low and will probably be out of ground beef by the end of May.

[tod evans]

I hope people filled their freezers..

[luctor-et-emergo]

I hope people filled their freezers..

I have. But I should go asking at the local wagyu farm for how much they will sell me a whole cow...

[tod evans]

I have. But I should go asking at the local wagyu farm for how much they will sell me a whole cow...

You're far better off than I am!

I'm quite happy to be eating a Hereford.

[luctor-et-emergo]

You're far better off than I am!

I'm quite happy to be eating a Hereford.

Can't complain but I'm not paying the same price, that's for sure.
Buying pieces of wagyu one at a time it's like double the price of 'normal' beef.
So I'm hoping if I get a whole cow (like 400lbs I think, they're kinda smallish) it should be a bit cheaper.

[tod evans]

Can't complain but I'm not paying the same price, that's for sure.
Buying pieces of wagyu one at a time it's like double the price of 'normal' beef.
So I'm hoping if I get a whole cow (like 400lbs I think, they're kinda smallish) it should be a bit cheaper.

Wagyu over here is insanely high...

[Brian4Liberty]

Can't complain but I'm not paying the same price, that's for sure.
Buying pieces of wagyu one at a time it's like double the price of 'normal' beef.
So I'm hoping if I get a whole cow (like 400lbs I think, they're kinda smallish) it should be a bit cheaper.

Wagyu over here is insanely high...

Wagyu. You mean the stuff they feed to the homeless in San Francisco? They are trying to put the homeless into luxury hotels during the shutdown. I wonder if that comes with room service?

Family-owned Snake River Farms in Idaho has donated $2 million worth of American Wagyu steak — or about 35,000 10-ounce steaks — to San Francisco food banks.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddri...on/ar-BB13qzO5

[tod evans]

Wagyu. You mean the stuff they feed to the homeless in San Francisco? They are trying to put the homeless into luxury hotels during the shutdown. I wonder if that comes with room service?

Good grief!

[Suzu]

I hope people filled their freezers..

Ours is crammed full of vegetables, fruits, a few pounds of turkey meat, a fair amount of fish, lots of strong home-made bone broth, plus a few more odd things like natto and tempeh. If there's a lengthy power outage, we'll be in trouble....

[Brian4Liberty]

Good grief!

A news story showed them being aged. They were meant for high end restaurants. I’d pay up to $4.99/lb, but I bet they want the full write-off price.

[tod evans]

Ours is crammed full of vegetables, fruits, a few pounds of turkey meat, a fair amount of fish, lots of strong home-made bone broth, plus a few more odd things like natto and tempeh. If there's a lengthy power outage, we'll be in trouble....

I've got a veg freezer and a meat freezer, the older one is for the veg...

[pcosmar]

Deer walk through the neighborhood.. if it comes to that..

We are stocked ok for now.. later may be interesting.

[tod evans]

This years beef goes to the processor Jan 11th, up .15c lb from last year but that's okay....12-1400lb Angus on corn now.

[Anti Globalist]

Looks like I'll be getting my ground beef soon within the next couple weeks.

[tod evans]

Looks like I'll be getting my ground beef soon within the next couple weeks.

I've till got about 30# of grind left and several roasts-n-steaks but I was able to get bumped up 2 months on my order and I jumped on it.

Now I've gotta process lots of uneaten "extras" like soup bones and tongue/heart etc...Looks like a large batch of barbacoa and a lot of stock is on the agenda...

[Brian4Liberty]

Good grief!

On a side note, they are having problems trying to end the hotels and food program for the “homeless”:

Housing advocates are calling on the City of San Francisco Mayor and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive (HSH) to expand the shelter-in-place hotel program.

The program was intended to house SF's homeless population during the pandemic to lower the risk of exposure to COVID 19. Since the start of the pandemic, the city has housed nearly 2,200 homeless people in city-funded hotels.
...
Mayor London Breed and HSH have argued in the past that there's just not enough funding to expand the program.

Now, the City has state and federal funding to help.

The program costs about $178 million a year but $114 million will be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

"There’s no reason to end this program any time soon," Haney said. "The federal government has committed to funding this program for the duration of the emergency."
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https://www.ktvu.com/news/housing-ad...s-housing-plan

They probably ran out of the free steaks, but you never know.

And SF is happy to take Federal money to fund this. Just wait till Biden, Harris and Pelosi send more money. Really, it’s the duty of the rest of the nation to take care of the homeless (and corrupt crony socialists) in San Francisco.

[XNavyNuke]

This years beef goes to the processor Jan 11th, up .15c lb from last year but that's okay....12-1400lb Angus on corn now.

Our butcher has a five month lead time on cattle, seven months on goats. Needless to say, looks like I'll be doing some butchering before winter ends.

XNN

[tebowlives]

I love deer jerky

[The Northbreather]

Butchered and a half hog in March for the first time.130 lbs for $200.

12 quarts of bone stock.
6 quarts lard.
2 quarts leaf lard.

Made my own bacon but it’s was a little salty after I remembered it was curing on the ninth day...

[Anti Globalist]

Went and picked up my ground beef today from my neighbors.

[tod evans]

$2.65 lb in the freezer, rendering suet now.....

427 lbs