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re: Beef prices and farmers...
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:04 pm to deltaland
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:04 pm to deltaland
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Find a farmer to sell you the whole cow for cash. Have him kill it and skin it. Butcher the meat yourself. You can YouTube the different cuts of meat and where they are. It’s not hard to do
Not many ranchers going to have 1,200 lb animals for you to buy
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:15 pm to tigerfoot
This is basically the same deal I'm getting from a friends ranch. But have to wait until January
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:18 pm to Mr. Elvert
They all will. Cash works. Theyll sell you the whole herd if you bring the month
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:22 pm to summersausage
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No such thing as a poor farmer
Yeah even my brother in law who decided it wasn’t worth it to farm his own land because of crappy grain prices, leases out the land for $100k per year. He literally gets paid $100k to let someone else work his land. He makes more money not farming his own land now. I have yet to hear a story that makes me feel bad for any farmers
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:25 pm to baldona
Any of you folks ever been to a sale barn? Just wondering.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:37 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Market price. Probably about $2 a pound live weight for a 1000lb steer. I havent checked prices in a while. That would yield you about 450 or 500 pounds of meat
That seems high to me? Don’t know, but $2000 for a 1,000 lbs? $4/ lb and that’s before packaging, transport, etc? You can get ground beef for under that.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:39 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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They all will. Cash works. Theyll sell you the whole herd if you bring the month
They’ll give you a 600-800 lb animal and it’ll be more expensive $/lb than the futures market you’re quoting as it’s a totally different animal. The grading/marbling will also be shite
Posted on 5/17/20 at 9:20 pm to Ignignot
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Not to be mean, but beef saw an astronomical increase in price about 10-12 yrs ago. Almost doubled overnight. Its about time the market corrected itself
Should have said “not to be ignorant”
Yes the market was high years ago. Producers were making profits. Currently the cost to get that beef animal is more than the buyers are wanting to spend. Packers are still making 500% profit off of what they bought from the rancher and what they put in a grocery store
Posted on 5/17/20 at 9:25 pm to baldona
It might be high, like I said I havent looked in a while. I think it was $2 for a while though. Keep in mind that's for a 1000lb steer, that's going to be top shelf stuff. You can go get an old milk cow for ground meat for way less.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 9:28 pm to greygoose
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Then what is the point of buying directly from the farmer?
Your local guy is selling you a steer that was born here. It was only given vaccinations, and growth hormones approved for use in the US (if you’re not buying organic grass fed).
If you buy from the store, it’s likely coming from Brazil or Argentina. They can get a yearling to 700lbs 2-3 months faster down there than we can here because it’s not regulated what they pump into them. Once they ship to the US, they are placed in a feedlot for a certain amount of time and “finished”. They can then be stamped USDA certified beef because they have been here long enough that the chemicals are said to be clean from the meat.
Oh and let’s not forget the US just accepted it first beef import from Namibia. The good quality beef raised and cared for here under strict guidelines is sold over seas for huge profit.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 9:43 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I'm paying $2.50 per pound for a side and another $.75 per pound for butchering/packing. Cow will be slaughtered early June and ready for pickup 3 weeks later
Posted on 5/17/20 at 9:51 pm to YipSkiddlyDooo
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Yeah even my brother in law who decided it wasn’t worth it to farm his own land because of crappy grain prices, leases out the land for $100k per year. He literally gets paid $100k to let someone else work his land. He makes more money not farming his own land now. I have yet to hear a story that makes me feel bad for any farmers
I told y’all goofy mfer’s on the first page there’s a difference between cattle farmers and row crop farmers.
On a side note, I have a small herd of 25 cows on the side which is pretty close to the national average of head per producer. Last year i sold 20 calves that average $600 a head. It cost me 13 head of calves just to pay for feed and hay. That don’t include land note, fertilizer, seed, equipment, supplies, fuel, and most important TIME! I can promise you cattle farmers don’t do it for the money
Posted on 5/17/20 at 9:54 pm to Lugnut
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I can promise you cattle farmers don’t do it for the money
What many people don’t understand is your small calf / cow guys are being weeded out. But when it comes to talking hard times on farmers, they get lumped in with the feedlot guys, large ranches, row croppers etc.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 10:24 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
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This post was edited on 5/17/20 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 5/17/20 at 11:43 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Any of you folks ever been to a sale barn? Just wondering.
Yup. Tylertown every Tuesday back in the day
Posted on 5/18/20 at 12:06 am to greygoose
I was offered a side for $4.50/lb.
I should probably jump on it,
I should probably jump on it,
Posted on 5/18/20 at 12:10 am to greygoose
Any of you around Bham? I want to go in on some beef. I just can't take a whole cow.
Posted on 5/18/20 at 12:17 am to greygoose
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I keep seeing a bunch of FB posts
I found the problem!
Posted on 5/18/20 at 1:20 am to FelicianaTigerfan
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row croppers
It’s not all sunshine and daisies for them, either. Tenant farming on marginal land will put you in the poorhouse with a quickness. Not everyone in the business has a pile of land that they can just “decide to rent out for 100k a year instead”.
The small-time hobby farmers are all being weeded out, whether it’s beef cattle, dairy, vegetables, or row-crops. You don’t see a 40, 100, even 6-700 acre row-crop farmer in my area anymore. New blood can’t find the land or capital to squeeze in to the business.
It’s sad.
Posted on 5/18/20 at 1:42 am to Lugnut
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I told y’all goofy mfer’s on the first page there’s a difference between cattle farmers and row crop farmers.
On a side note, I have a small herd of 25 cows on the side which is pretty close to the national average of head per producer.
Apparently the difference is that you guys aren’t farmers, you’re hobbyists.
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