Something like this:
We have five boxes of wrapped and frozen meat.
The Hubster is busy weighing and inventorying the meat. He puts it into a spreadsheet and then easily can tally up the total butchered weight.
This year's steer (our half) hanging weight was 356 pounds. I'll update the post to let you know what that yielded in the final butchering process.
We paid $193.60 for the butchering fee and next week we find out from the farmer what our 1/2 steer cost will be. Last year's 1/4 steer ended up costing us $3.25 per pound butchered and wrapped.
So today we'll be busy with weighing, inventorying, and then vacuum sealing all of the meat for better long-term storage. When all of that is said and done it gets stacked in the freezers. Oh, and I see steaks in the menu for dinner tonight!
ETA: Okay, the Hubster finished the spreadsheet and we ended up with 234 pounds, 10.4 ounces of wrapped meat.
2ETA: The Hubster got the final amount due to the farmer and it's $550 due to the farmer. That, combined with the $193 butchering fee brings the final price per pound to $3.17/pound. Remember, that's for pastured beef raised without animal feed, without hormone injections, and without antibiotics.
Awesome! $3.25 seems like a pretty great price! Is that based on the hanging weight, or the weight of the meat you actually got though?
ReplyDeleteI keep telling DH the grass fed pastured beef at an organic farm up the road (they just can't sell it as certified until next year) for $2.50/lbs cut and wrapped for a side or quarter is a steal but he is reluctant. It's good meat. I guess I need to work him a little more, lol!
ReplyDeleteI like the visual of how much it is for that much meat. Gives me an idea of how much space we'll need :)
@Katie, last year's price of $3.25/lb was the total per pound price we paid. That was based upon the cost of the meat we actually received.
ReplyDelete@Carla, your price of $2.50/lb is amazing!!!
Oh, and I just wanted to clarify on the price. We pay a per pound price to the butcher for the slaughter, cutting/trimming and wrapping. Then we pay another price to the farmer.
ReplyDeleteThe $3.25/pound price is the actual price we paid. We calculated out the price per pound we paid the butcher based upon the weight of the meat we received. To that we added in the price we paid the farmer. Again, we then break that price down into a per pound price based upon the weight of the meat we actually receive.
I like to do this to keep track of what I pay versus other sources (other farmers, or Costco, or supermarket, etc.). Not only do we receive humanely raised, pastured beef (which is better quality in my opinion), but the price is also competitive or even lower than what I could buy elsewhere.
Carla, though, really seems to have found the lowest-price source!!!
We would like to do this some time, but would have to go for a quarter. I'm glad you posted this--it gives me a better idea of what we would be getting.
ReplyDeleteThe Hubster got the total due today and our final price per pound will be $3.17/pound - even lower than last year's price!
ReplyDeleteHe said that feed costs were lower this year and the farmer passed that savings on to us. :)
That's great, especially for a large amount. It adds up :)
ReplyDeleteI finally talked hubby into a quarter and I am so blessed we are getting the last one. I just got the call! I guess with the farmers market, they have been going through their beef like crazy this year! It's being cut Thursday and if I want, I can be there when they cut it but I don't know if I could handle seeing that, lol! I will probably give my cut order (although I have no clue how; I had this problem with pork too).