Calculating Beef Processing Costs

um Beef Processing for the next cow 671 pounds now when I talk about this The Beef Processing so 671 pounds at a dollar fifteen is 771.65 The Harvest Room fee for a cow that was 601 to 900 pounds is 100 The Harvest Room fee for under 600 pounds is 90 in other words there's a kill fee of 90 bucks if they're under 600 pounds and then there's a kill fee of a hundred bucks if they're above 600 pounds between 600 and 900 and if you've got a massive cow that's like over 900 pounds I think it's 125 but that's something that you need to know if you're deciding to raise your own beef so again we had the season stuff which is Meatloaf salisbury steak and chorizo and that adds a few extra dollars on there so all in all saying that cost for a 671 pound cow at one dollar and fifteen cents covers all of your cuts it covers your Stakes it covers your rib eyes it covers your fillets it covers your hamburger but it doesn't cover the Patty fee the fee for the patties guys you may see some flies out here this is not your living room this is a farm and our cows don't get sprayed for flies they don't receive a systemic fly medication they get grass that's it some cows have flies on them and some don't some are more resistant to parasites and some aren't that's just something that's important to know about grass-fed beef that we raise here on the farm all in all saying we processed three cows the first one was 541 pounds the next one was 671 pounds and the next one was 679 pounds all in all out after all the cost our price was 2935 dollars believe it or not we wanted a private label on our beef that says Stony Ridge farmer beef and that private label cost us 300 bucks just to have the label made now the label's there forever and ever and from now on we'll have that done it was a one-time fee so that's what it cost to have a cal processed locally where I live now you can compare this and you can go to your local butcher shop or your local abattoir which is a slaughterhouse fancy word for slaughterhouse and you can find the price sheets and the cut sheets for your local place and I would say that the prices are probably going to be pretty comparable depending on the location that you live let's talk about grass-fed versus grain fed and the time that it takes to raise out and the choices that