Beef too high in the store?

dennishoddy · May 7, 2021

SoonerP226 said:
Red Steagall used to occasionally use this quote on his radio show:
Cattle ranchers and farmers are the only ones in the business world who buy retail, sell wholesale, and pay the freight both ways.
-- R. Lewis Bowman

It's not much different in farming.
Technically you have to buy from seed dealers, and put in writing you won't use their seed to reseed the next year forcing you to use them again. Ten zillion varieties of seed guaranteed to produce a record crop without rain during the growing season or survive under flood waters.
Then you have idiots like Governor Cuomo from NY on national TV saying he could be a farmer. Just stick a seed in the ground and harvest it when it's ready.
No big deal right?
Fawking idiots.

RickN · May 7, 2021

I just wish I could afford to buy beef direct from the producer. Sadly I can not so I eat a lot of pork, chicken and fish. I only get beef when hamburger is on sale or my daughter gives me a few steaks because their freezers are too full.

To bad you guys can not go together and start a coop processor and distributor. I know Crest and Uptown say they buy some beef direct from the producer. Maybe look into that with smaller stores to start.

Aries · May 7, 2021

A guy goes into a hardware store and buys a hammer. Later that day, he goes back in and buys another hammer.
Next morning, another hammer. Same thing two more days in a row, more hammers.

Finally the hardware store owner can't take anymore and has to ask. "Say. I'm just curious. What are you doing with all these hammers?"

"I'm selling them." the guy answers.

"Well... again, just curious. How much are you selling them for?"

"Twenty dollars."

"Twenty dollars?" The hardware store guy asks, surprised. "Well, um.... that's how much you pay ME for them."

"Yeah...."

"Well.... you can't make any money that way."

"Yep." The guy says. "But it beats farming."

:laugh6:

TedKennedy · May 7, 2021

RickN said:
I just wish I could afford to buy beef direct from the producer. Sadly I can not so I eat a lot of pork, chicken and fish. I only get beef when hamburger is on sale or my daughter gives me a few steaks because their freezers are too full.

To bad you guys can not go together and start a coop processor and distributor. I know Crest and Uptown say they buy some beef direct from the producer. Maybe look into that with smaller stores to start.

My wife's company buys a few steers directly from a rancher, they split the processing fee and meat into 1/8ths. She's bought into this the last few years, we give most of it away to family, but enjoy some ribeyes and a few other items to compliment the deer and other stuff I bring home. Really quality meat, locally raised, locally butchered.

If you had 4+ people interested, it shouldn't be hard to orchestrate something like that.

cowadle · May 7, 2021

swampratt said:
I do not see how cattle bring what they bring..If you take all the meat off the bones you do not have much meat weight left.

I will stick to deer and other critters I harvest.

red meat isn't the only part that is sold. the whole carcass goes to it's own market. but i agree that the american cattle producer has been led to produce a large frame low meat to bone ratio animal. probably serves the needs of the packer some way or another.

OKRuss · May 7, 2021

A couple of years back before leaving CO, we had a farmer that had grass fed beef for sale. It was $1/lb live weight for him plus the cost of the local processor to cut and wrap to your specs. We'd split with others. Total cost ended up at $4/lb net for burger, steaks, roasts. Not sure what his prices are now but if similar then it's worth to me to load a chest freezer and make a LONG road trip. Even adding in gas and hotel for 1 night would be miles ahead of the current beef prices.

cowadle · May 7, 2021

OKRuss said:
A couple of years back before leaving CO, we had a farmer that had grass fed beef for sale. It was $1/lb live weight for him plus the cost of the local processor to cut and wrap to your specs. We'd split with others. Total cost ended up at $4/lb net for burger, steaks, roasts. Not sure what his prices are now but if similar then it's worth to me to load a chest freezer and make a LONG road trip. Even adding in gas and hotel for 1 night would be miles ahead of the current beef prices.

why drive to colorado? you can do that right here if you want.

tRidiot · May 7, 2021

cowadle said:
imhoffe raised a big stink during the early lockdowns and before the election. said he was going to insure more competition in the market and such things. made him look good in front of the voters. well he got re elected and POOF were back to business as usual. rino

Sounds like classic Inhofe as well as classic politician (insert party here). How sad it is that none of this surprises any of us anymore?

rswink · May 7, 2021

cowadle said:
why drive to colorado? you can do that right here if you want.

My family tried not long ago, the cow was easy, the processors were all too busy to take a cow.

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okie362 · May 7, 2021

cowadle said:
why drive to colorado? you can do that right here if you want.

Do you have a contact? All the ones I've been able to find are online and $$$$. I'd drive a good distance to support a local (OK) producer or individual rancher.

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