Archive for February 2nd, 2010
February 2, 2010 – What Does a Half a Beef Look Like?
Ever wonder what a half a beef looks like before it goes into the freezer?
Here is one – we had it processed with an emphasis on the things we eat most often – hamburger and steak. The basket on the right is full of steaks. The next one is roasts, the next one over is ribs/soup bones, and of course, the last two hamburger. Here’s the breakdown from this half.
71 lbs steaks
54 lbs roasts/ribs/soup bones
148 lbs burger
The total cost for this ends up being about $3.30/lb – that’s everything from hamburger that probably average $2 lb at the store to rib eye and t-bones at $7-9/lb. Best of all, this beeve was visible on a local pasture on our way to town. It was grass-raised and finished with some corn, so it wasn’t wallowing in a feedlot in it’s own doo-doo during its lifetime.
