butchering prices

Yeah, I dont know any answers,, - but around here there were a couple butcher shops opened around the Covid Bs- OH MY GAWD gonna be the next best thing- NOPE  - FOR SALE,, $1.5 MILLION DOLLARS , no takers ,, ; in all my travels, its cheaper to buy it at a store-- just as good as home grown ; if you do it yourself, maybe cheaper if you dont value your time- beef is high now,, watching the markets and futures-- in for a ride !  All markets are cornend,, 

Edited by DougG - 29 Aug 2024 at 4:42pm

It appears the price of 22 shells have risen again!

Lars(wi) wrote: For $150 bucks, I would have walked the stear. The hamburger, I would wager will be from a cull cow, no butcher grinds hamburger from stear’s(no matter what they promise). As for the processing, I don’t have a clue. As for my post, I was in the mood for a ‘drive by bomb throw’!!

well, we get hamburger from steers all the time. The whole critter ain’t made of steak ya know.

jaybmiller wrote: OK.. so 3 neighbours bought a steer ,on the hoof for $800. Cost $150 to haul 2 miles down the road.. Butcher charged $100 to kill the steer. Butcher charged $1 /kg....so 45 cents per pound to turn the steer into steaks and roasts and hamburger. I'm wondering if that's a good price ? yeah, I forgot to ask what it weighed...next time I see her, I'll ask...

$800 for the steer is ridiculously cheap, like less than half price if it was capable of walking. $150 to haul two miles is ridiculously expensive. $150 to kill it is pretty expensive, here that’s $40, but that guy is on the cheap side. The 45 cents for packaging is pretty cheap though not way off. Based on the price of the steer and the packaging, far out weighs the others and this is a very good deal. Are you sure it wasn’t $1800 for the steer? Or $800 each?

Edited by Tbone95 - 30 Aug 2024 at 7:32am

Lyons Country Meat Kills, halves ages then cuts up package and flash freeze for $4.75 lb. Quarter for gutted hanging weight is $2.60lb
7.35 lb plus taxes for everything we received.against hanging weight so likely around 9-9.50 lb finished.

Just had a steer butchered that we raised. I cant remember the specifics, but the meat ended up being about a dollar per pound when we picked it up. Made for cheap eating.

Several of you at the beginning of this discussion need to move out here and get rich. To come to my place and kill a beef is $250 if not more. 

Large meat processors near to St Charles and KC have sucked up all the meat cutters around these parts, Bigger Markets as Schnucks or Dierbergs pay their help handsomely to get quality meat cutters. Local shops of two to three people here plus counter help have to pay premium to get and keep help. We pay for that, gladly I might add to not pay $13-15lb at WalMarts for crap steaks or roasts I can tell came off old dairy animals. Even WM generic Burger is currently over $10/lb unless on sale if you like well OLD Aged beef, tendons arteries tongue and moo included.

steve(ill) wrote: DANG !!  Wal Mart here has burger for $5. lb and roast for $7.50 !!... pretty good meat in Illinois..

Walmart meat here, well I can’t speak from experience because I don’t eat it, but but people who buy from me say it’s got lots of water in it and not much flavor.

We have a store chain Meijer, known for much better produce and better meat. I go by their prices when I set my price. Last month Angus ground chuck, 90/10 was low $7’s per pound, I back figure from there and compare to live cattle price and go from there.

Nothing from Walmart is $15 per pound. Very top line stuff at Meijer might be. Dang, Misery is an expensive place! Not a typo.

Edited by Tbone95 - 31 Aug 2024 at 5:46pm