Beef pricing

[lilduke]

That's completely different though. Basically you are paying a premium for the convenience of buying two steaks at a time....not an entire beef.

The farmer can either get 2000 minus trucking, auction fees, and shrinkage......or the full 2000 (or even a reasonable amount more) from a local. Like I said, it's win win. Buying from a grocery store and buying a full beef are two completely different things

I know they arent making anything at 2g or slightly more.


Probably why they are trying to sell it for the price they are asking...

 

[deaner]

Family in Alberta got 60-70 cents a lb live weight at the auction a week ago . It’s not the farmers getting the extortion rates !!

Exactly. I'm happy paying a couple bucks a lbs on the hoof for a nice animal. Everyone wins except big corporate

 

[lilduke]

Family in Alberta got 60-70 cents a lb live weight at the auction a week ago . It’s not the farmers getting the extortion rates !!

That half the going rate. Nice...

Dog food grade?

 

[tejay]

That half the going rate. Nice...

Dog food grade?

Per hundredweight

 

[lilduke]

Per hundredweight

Guess if a guys looking for cheap meat, hit up that auction! Lol

 

[ABMax24]

Sounds to me like there's opportunity to build another meat packer in the province and make it profitable, maybe a farmer owned cooperative so farmers can earn income even if they don't see it directly from cattle sales?

Problem would be finding staff, seems no one wants to work in that industry anymore, seems like Cargill imports most of its staff from outside the country.

 

[lilduke]

Some people dont like eating old breeding cows though

 

[tejay]

no Idea how it all works but I’m sure they are getting what they can for 8 month old ish cattle

 

[lilduke]

no Idea how it all works but I’m sure they are getting what they can for 8 month old ish cattle

Well i have pretty good idea of how it works, and you arent paying 50$ a steak at the keg for one of those 60cent cows...

 

[fynnigan]

Something you guys are missing is the cost of finishing a calf at a feedlot. Not that I am sticking up for them , we are cow calf producers and what we get for a 600 to 700lb steer calf has been averaging around 2.00 per pound. Sometimes higher sometimes lower. . When we sell a calf at auction in the fall ,the calf is several months away from being a prime butcher product that you would expect at a steakhouse. To get it there transportation, feed , vet bills ,death loss ,machinery operational cost are incurred by the feedlot .Then it goes to the packing plant and processed into a finished product. Those 65 cent animals are cull cows , old girls that are done in a breeding program. They are still not to bad to eat ,roasts burgers etc. But they will rarely yield a high quality steak . For a cow /calf producer to finish their own product to a fairly high consumer ready standard costs a lot of time ,money and real state.

 

[mclean]

Looking for half or maybe a full cow here. Cut and wrapped. Having a hard time keeping up with this thread so PM me prices if you have something to offer

 

[lilduke]

Something you guys are missing is the cost of finishing a calf at a feedlot. Not that I am sticking up for them , we are cow calf producers and what we get for a 600 to 700lb steer calf has been averaging around 2.00 per pound. Sometimes higher sometimes lower. . When we sell a calf at auction in the fall ,the calf is several months away from being a prime butcher product that you would expect at a steakhouse. To get it there transportation, feed , vet bills ,death loss ,machinery operational cost are incurred by the feedlot .Then it goes to the packing plant and processed into a finished product. Those 65 cent animals are cull cows , old girls that are done in a breeding program. They are still not to bad to eat ,roasts burgers etc. But they will rarely yield a high quality steak . For a cow /calf producer to finish their own product to a fairly high consumer ready standard costs a lot of time ,money and real state.

I grew up on a cattle ranch. Tough gig forsure.

 

[catalac]

Per hundredweight

let us know how those 10 year old cull cows taste… people are dumping cull cows as feEd costs are $3+ per day to carry them to spring.

 

[tejay]

Their cattle come off the field and go to the auction and then to a feedlot for finishing . I would think that third generation farmers may know a thing or two about cattle and crops . They sold early this year because they have been hit with rustlers ffs three years in a row.

 

[d8grandpa]

Looking for half or maybe a full cow here. Cut and wrapped. Having a hard time keeping up with this thread so PM me prices if you have something to offer

If you are in Calgary, check with Rocky’s meats in Aldersyde orHershey’s in Okotoks. They sell locally raised in half or whole carcass cut and wrapped.

 

[scotts]

Something you guys are missing is the cost of finishing a calf at a feedlot. Not that I am sticking up for them , we are cow calf producers and what we get for a 600 to 700lb steer calf has been averaging around 2.00 per pound. Sometimes higher sometimes lower. . When we sell a calf at auction in the fall ,the calf is several months away from being a prime butcher product that you would expect at a steakhouse. To get it there transportation, feed , vet bills ,death loss ,machinery operational cost are incurred by the feedlot .Then it goes to the packing plant and processed into a finished product. Those 65 cent animals are cull cows , old girls that are done in a breeding program. They are still not to bad to eat ,roasts burgers etc. But they will rarely yield a high quality steak . For a cow /calf producer to finish their own product to a fairly high consumer ready standard costs a lot of time ,money and real state.

As a guy that grew up with cattle, I wouldn't dream of eating a cull cow!
Hauled a trailer load to town yesterday, I didn't hang around to watch myself get screwed on them but we never keep those old girls to eat ourselves or to sell to meat customers!

 

[fynnigan]

Lol yup when bite into a really nasty burger ,that is what you are getting. In my much younger days I worked in auction mart ,surprising much the low quality critters[like cull Holstein milk cows ] the major burger chains buy.

 

[catalac]

Their cattle come off the field and go to the auction and then to a feedlot for finishing . I would think that third generation farmers may know a thing or two about cattle and crops . They sold early this year because they have been hit with rustlers ffs three years in a row.

I think you mean cow calves come off pasture calves weaned sold then to feedlot, or yearlings come off pasture sold and to feedlot? The cows if not bred and decision is made to sell vs feed for winter are culled and sold at auction re D1-D4 prices you referenced. Rustlers ok… you show me someone that can round up a cow calf pair from a field and get it loaded with out knowing what they are doing, good luck. Not to say a cull cow can’t be good but in carcass grading it’s Prime-AAA-AA-A-B1-B4-D1-D4-E. Current live weight 1500lb “finished“ “fat” steer grade A (which is lowest you’ll find in a grocery store) is $1.5x per pound liveweight. Not the 60 cents you referred to.

 

[2kDoo]

Ever see the movie zombieland ?? It all started with a bag burger from in and out....... Meat packaging plants scare me

 

[Legend14]

Ever see the movie zombieland ?? It all started with a bag burger from in and out....... Meat packaging plants scare me

Where did the missing Somali meat packer go?