If you don’t already support local ranchers I encourage you to begin. You don’t have to purchase a whole cow. They sell halves, quarters, and eighths. You can get the meat processed and packaged the way you like. Around here we call it getting a freezer beef.
Example: a 1200lb steer dresses out let’s say average 750lbs, and yields about 500lbs bone-in meat cuts. Half of that 200-something lbs of beef will easily fit in a small chest freezer and provide burger/steaks/roasts/ribs for a year. Half a freezer beef works great for lots of folks.
Know where/how your meat was raised, and cut evil corps like Tyson/cargill out. My local farmers work with a local butcher/processor. I choose the amount I want, how I want it packages (2 steaks pr package, ect 3lb roasts, 2lbs ground beef chubs,) write a check and pick up a big box of frozen-packaged beef from the butcher a few weeks later. Win. Win.
I just got a half a steer ($410 lbs) last week for my family. I paid $3.02/lb for top grade beef, including local processing. Win/win/win for me, the famer, and processor. The meat is far better than anything I've gotten from the store.
If you don’t already support local ranchers I encourage you to begin. You don’t have to purchase a whole cow. They sell halves, quarters, and eighths. You can get the meat processed and packaged the way you like. Around here we call it getting a freezer beef.
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Example: a 1200lb steer dresses out let’s say average 750lbs, and yields about 500lbs bone-in meat cuts. Half of that 200-something lbs of beef will easily fit in a small chest freezer and provide burger/steaks/roasts/ribs for a year. Half a freezer beef works great for lots of folks.
Know where/how your meat was raised, and cut evil corps like Tyson/cargill out. My local farmers work with a local butcher/processor. I choose the amount I want, how I want it packages (2 steaks pr package, ect 3lb roasts, 2lbs ground beef chubs,) write a check and pick up a big box of frozen-packaged beef from the butcher a few weeks later. Win. Win.
I just got a half a steer ($410 lbs) last week for my family. I paid $3.02/lb for top grade beef, including local processing. Win/win/win for me, the famer, and processor. The meat is far better than anything I've gotten from the store.