BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[CoopDeDoo]

You folks who like beef had better get your freezers full NOW. Dad's beef went for $2.20 per pound on the hoof this year. I won't try to extrapolate that out but the buyers will take all the stock they buy from back East to the fattening yards in Iowa where they'll add another thousand pounds to it. Every move or 'flinch' they make from start to finish will add a few pennies per pound.

Dad thinks cheap hamburger might cost $10.00 a pound, this time next year. ($9.99)

I really don't like having pigs around because they just about worked me to death when I was a kid but I'm giving some real thought to looking into a trio of a certain kind of pigs. Chicken is our primary meat but we both like pork. We have the facility and might regret it if we fail to at least give it a go.

I'm now glad I learned how to butcher (as well as scald/scrape) porkers when I was a kid. It used to make me mad when grandpa made me help with the farm work when all my friends were out riding bikes and having a grand ol' time....I guess that old bird knew what he was talking about when he said "one day, you'll thank me"...

The quote we just received from the butcher here for Fair beef was $3.20 per pound. Pork was $3.49. That's up a dollar a pound each from this time last year.

 

[Turk Raphael]

The quote we just received from the butcher here for Fair beef was $3.20 per pound. Pork was $3.49. That's up a dollar a pound each from this time last year.

I think there are going to be a lot of folks cutting wild greens and eating road kill (not to mention a massive jump in poaching)...sooner than later.

 

[bmvf]

You folks who like beef had better get your freezers full NOW. Dad's beef went for $2.20 per pound on the hoof this year. I won't try to extrapolate that out but the buyers will take all the stock they buy from back East to the fattening yards in Iowa where they'll add another thousand pounds to it. Every move or 'flinch' they make from start to finish will add a few pennies per pound.

Dad thinks cheap hamburger might cost $10.00 a pound, this time next year. ($9.99)

I really don't like having pigs around because they just about worked me to death when I was a kid but I'm giving some real thought to looking into a trio of a certain kind of pigs. Chicken is our primary meat but we both like pork. We have the facility and might regret it if we fail to at least give it a go.

I'm now glad I learned how to butcher (as well as scald/scrape) porkers when I was a kid. It used to make me mad when grandpa made me help with the farm work when all my friends were out riding bikes and having a grand ol' time....I guess that old bird knew what he was talking about when he said "one day, you'll thank me"...

Last week I sent a dairy cull to the auction barn for $2200. 4-5 years ago she would have been below $1000. I tell anyone who wants to listen that the steaks you buy in the supermarket (Walmart, etc.) are my dairy culls that meet (or meat) the grade. It doesn't matter what age the cow is but rather the condition (fat) of the cow.

 

[RedRidge]

We are getting $4.25/lb hanging weight for beef this year... With a waiting list for beef 2 years out. Hardest thing for us with these prices is to make sure we remember to make it a priority to fill our own freezer. Lamb is $2.25/lb live weight and we are sold out until next May. Good thing we produce rabbit continuously. ;-) Even the calls for rabbit meat have increased dramatically in the last few months.

 

[3riverschick]

We are getting $4.25/lb hanging weight for beef this year... With a waiting list for beef 2 years out. Hardest thing for us with these prices is to make sure we remember to make it a priority to fill our own freezer. Lamb is $2.25/lb live weight and we are sold out until next May. Good thing we produce rabbit continuously. ;-) Even the calls for rabbit meat have increased dramatically in the last few months.

Who can afford a steak any more?
How sad,
Karen

 

[LindaB220]

No...He'd be right in style. Gaudy/ostentatious seems to be back in vogue.

Bahahahaha and he is the most conservative person in the world.

 

[LindaB220]

I came across this and it gives some ideas of different grains. It's for cattle but you can judge what you need

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/l...site&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email

 

[Turk Raphael]

Brother tells me they are going to butcher a steer this fall and asked if we wanted or had freezer space for half of it.

The answer to the first part is absolutely and to the second, chest freezers will be on sale in about a month.

Half a beef is a lot for us but if butchered and wrapped corredtly, it should last two years without any freezer burn.

If anything goes off-flavor, I know a couple dogs with big appetites that can scarf down some hamburger.


We looked into getting Mangalitsa pigs but that's more in dad's line, both for the cost and places to

free-range them. We will get what we know... Landrace whites. They clean up easily and hit 200 pounds

quickly. I must have helped scald and scrape over 100 of em'!!

 

[RedRidge]

We are getting $4.25/lb hanging weight for beef this year... With a waiting list for beef 2 years out. Hardest thing for us with these prices is to make sure we remember to make it a priority to fill our own freezer. Lamb is $2.25/lb live weight and we are sold out until next May. Good thing we produce rabbit continuously. ;-) Even the calls for rabbit meat have increased dramatically in the last few months.

Who can afford a steak any more?
How sad,
 Karen

Ironically this is the third year in a row for these prices. We haven't had a price increase in anything but rabbit meat and eggs since 2012.

 

[bnjrob]

Ironically this is the third year in a row for these prices. We haven't had a price increase in anything but rabbit meat and eggs since 2012.

Really? Cuz I swear it feels like it has just been in the last 3-4 months that the prices seem to have doubled at the store. So makes me wonder who's raking in the big bucks since it isn't the cattle rancher.