We will contact you to discuss when we'll be able to deliver the
quarter. We expect to be filling new orders for quarters in
approximately Dec to January 2024
Step 1: Make a $150 deposit for a Half Beef Order ($156 if you
pay for the deposit with a credit card, including the card processing
fee)
Step 2: We'll contact you about if you'd like any bones,
and which type of organs you'd like included (heart, liver, oxtail,
tongue)
Step 3: After having our butcher cut and wrap the meat
we'll make your freezer ready meat available at one of our regular
pick-up sites, or we can arrange home delivery for a small fee.
Payment will be due at the time of delivery, including sales tax for
your location. Your deposit will be deducted from the price of the beef
to create the balance due.
Quarter Beef Purchasing Information
Quarter of a Grass-Fed Beef $5.50 per hanging lb
We
would expect your quarter to come from an animal that weighs in the
neighborhood of 700 to 825 lbs. So your price would be the actual
hanging carcass weight divided by 4 multiplied by $5.50 per lb. If your
animal was 700 lbs even your price would be $962.50 plus tax. If the
animal was 800 lbs the price would be $1100. This size animal should
yield you roughly 100 lbs of cuts of meat. Our animals typically yield
(cuts you take home vs. hanging weight) between 55% to 60% of their
carcass wt, with an average of 57%. Nearly all of the bone is removed
from our beef-short ribs and soup bones are the only bone-in cuts you
will receive.
Your quarter will be roughly half the meat that
comes from an entire side of beef. All of the meat is divided into two
piles that are as even as we can get them. You should expect to get
roughly 20% of your meat as steaks (tenderloin, rib eyes, New York's,
top sirloin, petite sirloin, flank, skirt, chuck and cube steaks).
Another 20 ish percent will be roasts (top sirloin, sirloin tip, eye of
round, chuck, brisket, London broil and tri-tip). Ground beef will make
up around 50% of the meat you get, with the remainder being short ribs,
meaty soup bones, steaks strips, stew and kabob cubes.
Our
standard cutting instructions call for 1 inch thick steaks, packaged two
per package. We ask for the roasts to be about 2 lbs each. The stew,
steak strips, and kabob are in 1 lb packages. Our butcher makes 1 lb
blocks of our ground beef. The meat will be vacuum sealed by our
butcher.