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[AllisWD45]

Happy to have you back. As you know i am not actively farming. This whole forum less the covid shit show is my window on the farming world. Sheepwheat i value reading your and your families ventures and adventures on your farm and have had the pleasure of using some of your products.
Other posts i look forward to are Woodland"s because it reminds me so much of my ranching days although on not such a large scale. Although I always was a piss poor grain farmer i really enjoy Saskfarmers crop reports and his very very successful multi generation grain farm. Just hope when he settles for the winter in Florida we start seeing more of his drink concoctions.
There are some other contributors on here that to me add no value and i usually just skim over their posts. How ever i do miss contributers like Farmaholic, Mallee and even Grassfarmer who was doing a lot of interesting things with his cattle
I do not contribute any as i tend to go bat shit crazy when i get started especially with politics and i am getting too old for that.
Good luck to you all and i will go back to lurking in the background

[woodland]

Great to have you back Sheepwheat. 👍

Good luck on the hunting. I never have done it but let almost anyone who asks (nicely) go on our place.

How’s lamb prices doing these days? Hopefully more appealing than 60 cent cull cows for us. 🍀

[Guest]

Great to have you back Sheepwheat. 👍

Good luck on the hunting. I never have done it but let almost anyone who asks (nicely) go on our place.

How’s lamb prices doing these days? Hopefully more appealing than 60 cent cull cows for us. 🍀

and those god damn pricks are charging us $24/lb for a roast
$5/lb extra lean ground beef , WTF?
grass farmer usta help me with these math problems , how much hamburger would you get off a cull cow, (smaller one) if you de boned the whole thing ?
last one we got processed at the hutts , was really impressed with quality of job, and price, all vacuum sealed

[newguy]

and those god damn pricks are charging us $24/lb for a roast
$5/lb extra lean ground beef , WTF?
grass farmer usta help me with these math problems , how much hamburger would you get off a cull cow, (smaller one) if you de boned the whole thing ?
last one we got processed at the hutts , was really impressed with quality of job, and price, all vacuum sealed

A 1200 pound cull cow hanging weight about 600 pounds.Then after cut and wrap probably 420 pounds of hamburger.

[shtferbrains]

A 1200 pound cull cow hanging weight about 600 pounds.Then after cut and wrap probably 420 pounds of hamburger.

I think the calculation is 60% of live for hanging wgt and 60% of that for boned and ground.
About the same as your number.

Fat cows not shelly old cows.

[newguy]

I think the calculation is 60% of live for hanging wgt and 60% of that for boned and ground.
About the same as your number.

Fat cows not shelly old cows.

Probably 55% dressed an lose another 35% cut and wrap.whatever way you figure around 420 to 450 pounds of hamburger.

[Blaithin]

Deboned you’d lose weight. 40% of live weight is average take home but if you debone it I’d expect you’d be looking at 400 or under.

[woodland]

Plus your kill fee, disposal fee, and cutting/wrapping charge which adds about a buck a pound to the carcass weight for us.

[burnt]

Even with everything in, we have had no trouble selling meat, quarters or sides.

There has been a change of attitude in consumers over the past two years - they do not question the price.

[Guest]

Thanks everyone
We usta process all our own meat
One 30-30 shell , saws and grinders
Then coyote bait with the guts and hide
Too bad we lost it along the way