Easier said than done. The logistics of running a cattle spread is a dawn-til-dusk job, and sometimes well into the night. Americans used to be able to do this, my own family had farms back in the 1940s and 50s, but those skills and arcane knowledge have been lost. Also, it's land intensive as well as labor intensive. Add onto it the endless regulations and paperwork and licensing and.... well, you get the idea.
Excellent for you and your family. For the other 99.5% of Americans have to buy their beef in stores. I'm a devout omnivore, I'll eat just about anything that doesn't eat me first, and I fear that a looming population and the leftist ideas of diet are going to impact my meat-eating lifestyle. We have a few specialty meat places near me where I can get grass-fed beef, but they are small operations and cannot compete with the likes of Costco, Walmart, Kroger, etc.
I'll never give up my beef! Considering raising chickens for meat as well, a good neighbor and "bartering" keeps me in fresh eggs. I put nearly an acre in garden every year, numerous fruit trees, and at least a quarter of my freezer is wild game. I was just raised this way..
Much better to pay the price to have it processed by a pro. I can butcher a deer and have the meat wrapped and in the freezer in a couple of hours but a cow, or even half of one, would be an all day affair (if you even have the space to do it).
Easier said than done. The logistics of running a cattle spread is a dawn-til-dusk job, and sometimes well into the night. Americans used to be able to do this, my own family had farms back in the 1940s and 50s, but those skills and arcane knowledge have been lost. Also, it's land intensive as well as labor intensive. Add onto it the endless regulations and paperwork and licensing and.... well, you get the idea.
I have about 10 years worth of steak and burgers running around my front pasture and no intention to stop..
Excellent for you and your family. For the other 99.5% of Americans have to buy their beef in stores. I'm a devout omnivore, I'll eat just about anything that doesn't eat me first, and I fear that a looming population and the leftist ideas of diet are going to impact my meat-eating lifestyle. We have a few specialty meat places near me where I can get grass-fed beef, but they are small operations and cannot compete with the likes of Costco, Walmart, Kroger, etc.
I'll never give up my beef! Considering raising chickens for meat as well, a good neighbor and "bartering" keeps me in fresh eggs. I put nearly an acre in garden every year, numerous fruit trees, and at least a quarter of my freezer is wild game. I was just raised this way..
I wish I was raised your way! :(
Much better to pay the price to have it processed by a pro. I can butcher a deer and have the meat wrapped and in the freezer in a couple of hours but a cow, or even half of one, would be an all day affair (if you even have the space to do it).
Nowadays I don’t even step foot into Costco, Walmart or any other big chain store unless I absolutely need something that only they have.
Support the local chains (I.e. Bucee’s in TX, Festival in MN/WI) and especially the mom and pop stores
Yeah but raising g a couple head at a time is easy. You can donit in a small pasture. We would raise a couple every year.