re: Buying a half cow butchered

It looks like a 1200 lb steer gets about 490 lbs of retail cuts. So that's actually not cheap to do, I found someone else that does $725 1/4 shares plus $130 for processing. So you are looking at 120lbs for $850, that's $7/lb retail.

So I'd look to actually split 1/4 with my parents to get 1/8 of a cow which would be 55 lbs. We could probably eat through 1/4 in a year but that'd be pushing it and I don't see the reason to do that.