Half a beef in the freezer!

We just took delivery of half a beef, with just enough room in our freezer for it all. 

Dan wrote:   Do you happen to know a little bit about the breed or feed?  love to hear more about it.

sounds to me like you stole it

Not really, Dave.

Although that's a pretty good deal Ron got, it's really not unusual for grass-fed beef. Not once you remove the chain of feedlots, middlemen, etc. that lay between the farm and the table.

About five years ago a friend in Michigan was providing grass-fed beef for 67 cents/pound. Most of that represented processing costs, rather than cost of raising the critter.

One of the many differences, of course, is that you had to pick up the meat at her place. If you wanted it delivered the price would go up.

Ron touches on another issue. Many analysts of long wondered about the price differences for different cuts of meat. Certainly supply/demand has an influence. But, even so, they insist there is no justification for the wide diversity between, say, tenderloin and bottom round.

Ron's experience demonstrates that. It costs X dollars to raise a cow, Y dollars to process it. Add in overheads and profits, divide by the weight of the critter, and that should be the cost per pound.

It's not quite that simple. When you're selling pieces rather than whlle animals, demand plays a much larger role. But even so. When a whole primal sells for 99 cents/lb at the wholesale market, and the same cut at retail costs as much as $5-6/lb, there's something seriously wrong.

I am late to this party . but looks like you will have few of them .

So far, we've tried some burger for various dishes - and of course for grilled hamburgers.