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hanging beef?what are some of you charging

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Dave from MN

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Angus/shorthorn, simmi cross's. will be 11-13 months, approx. 1150# live weight. Been on free choice corn/ pellets and hay, and full feed only the to the last 60 days. Please keep smartalec comments to your self. Just looking for a range, I know my cost's.
 
Just figure 220% of live weight market price Dave. I topped at $140 last week,real world average type steer. The top end this week hit $152,but I doubt that was on more than just a few animals.
 
This next one will be $2.75/pound hanging. People are more then willing to pay for the home raised/finished animal. If you can't get more for selling local, its just not worth it.
As a side note, everything I feed, is on free choice corn, for at least 90 days, and most over 120. I have a standing list for beef, so I must be doing something right.
 
Dave I paid $1.50. for 1075 lb live weight that railed out 665 lb so you can figure here in Tennessee. Was a good friend so might have got a little help on price. I was satisfied but the processing fee had escalated since I last had one killed. Ended up $ 1600.00 for the calf and $ 330.00 at the slaughter house. $1930.00 for 630 lb all in all not bad. Ate some last night nothing like it.
 
$3.50 per pound hanging weight right now, could go up tomorrow. When you say 11-13 months are you saying you have year old steers weighing 1150?
 
dunno for sure ,,,, Cept the price is sure gonna go higher !!!,,cattle seminar last nite claime 2013 average feeders was 168 live wt,2014 predicted 193 cwt ,.momma cow numbers are way down and still dropping ,,aging older farmers quit cows for grain crops and dozed out fences ,,,,
 
I buy a beef every winter from my nephew to be split between our household and the kid's families. Pay him whatever the top of the market live weight is the day he delivers it to the local locker of my choice. I pay the processing and give extra $$ to the nephew for delivery charge. I'd do the same deal with any other producer, but because the nephew raises beef, why not keep the $$$ in the family. I feel the getting beef that I know how it is raised is definitely worth a top price. (My $0.02 worth. jal-SD)
 
Ya,a little off the top. $1.50 x 220% comes to $3.30.
I've got an electronic scale and sell live weight. Generally take whatever I got for a top last time I sold through the sale barn. I probably would have asked you for $1.40 this week,delivered to the slaughter house. (Here,not in Tennessee) lol
 
I sell live weight, 10 cents over top of the market the day they are delivered to the locker. Customer pays their own processing. I sell 4-5 head head every year and never have enough. Same repeat customers every year now for 6 years. All cattle are born and raised to finish on my dirt. Born in april-may and pastured with mamma till late fall weaning. Then free choice grass hay and slowly switched to free choice alfalfa by spring along with minimal corn. Finished through the summer into late fall on pasture, free choice alfalfa and increasing corn. Average age is around 18-20 months. Weights run around 1200-1300#. Mamma cows are mainly Hereford with a few Angus mixed in. AI breed to black bulls and use a Hereford bull for clean-up.

Casey in SD
 
I was referring to a hanging carcass that someone wants to buy, in which case you have to recoup the slaughter and dressing costs, then they choose and pay for how they want it cut up and packaged, I thought that was what he was asking for.
 
Local processor has live scales. I have been selling home raised 18ish month old steers for $1.60 a lb live weight. Just to keep things simple on the paper work end I don't sell beef, I sell percentages of steers in the parking lot, once they walk into the butcher shop they are the customer's. I do four in the spring and four in the fall. Four going in April were spoken for before the first of the year, unless the market changes my October calves are going to be $1.80 and we will see how that works.

Dave
 
The way to get that kind of growth is to feed a lo-forage, hi grain ration. DoBoy Feeds has a self-feeder protein pellet/shelled corn program that starts at a couple months of age, and dairy steers will finish at 11-1200 lbs in about a year. Silage, grass, hay put on a larger frame, takes more months to finish. Only roughage our steers had access to was cornstalk bedding. IIRC, corn requirement per head was around 80-90 bushels.
 
I have 5 steers hanging in the locker now that were slaughtered last week, and will be cut and packaged next week. I'm selling at $2.50/lb hanging, same as last year, then they pay the butcher the processing, depending on what they're cut order is. After paying the processing and the cutting loss, they probably have about $4.50/lb total cost when it goes into their freezer.
 
Last one I sold the 1st of the year I charged $2.00 a pound hanging weight. that was right in the run of the market at the time.
 
I don,t get it , I was planning on ysing yours next year, I thought you and I were tight, what do you mean you want bring it to Tennessee. LOL Guy etting the $3.50 is doing all right. I think you 1.40/1.50 live weight is about right but Like others have said may be different next year. For years I bought a 4h calf at the fair that some kid (customers,s kid) had on feed and showed. Would always be about twice market or a $2,500 dollar calf so feel like I am eating cheap when I get this $3.00 beef, used to I would have $6.00 a lb in 650 lb of beef. But then the dealership was paying so guess it was good advertising.
 
Tell you what. I'll weigh one,you send me a check and I'll turn it loose and point it south. If it makes it,you got a good deal. lol

Ya,my brother buys one or two 4H hogs a year as advertising for his excavating business.
 
I bought a half last fall from a neighbour for $2.79 a pound hanging weight. That included basic cutting, wrapping and freezing, but getting sausage and pepperetts made cost more.
I don't know what he is charging now.
 
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