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Understanding Beef Processing and Cut Sheet Options

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The farmer presents a 'Beef Cut Sheet,' explaining that all beef intended for sale must be processed in a USDA-inspected facility. He reviews various initial cuts like brisket, ribs, skirt steak, and flank steak. For roasts, options include chuck, pot, sirloin tip, eye of round, and London broil. Steak options consist of T-bone, New York Strip, filet mignon, ribeye, sirloin, and cube steak (tenderized for texture). Other products such as stew beef, beef tips, hamburger (patties or ground), beef bratwurst links, beef chorizo, beef meatloaf, and Salisbury steak are also discussed. The cut sheet also allows for selecting offal (liver, tongue, oxtail, heart, kidney, testicles) and bones for broth. Processing is done by weight, and a private label for 'Stoney Ridge Farmer Beef' incurs an initial setup fee.

Goal: Explore the different beef cuts available and the legal requirements for processing, emphasizing the importance of USDA-inspected facilities for selling beef.

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out here and healing the land so let's go over to the cows and we'll talk to you about what it takes and what it costs to raise a cow grass-fed grass finished from start to finish and learn something so what you guys are here for this is called a beef cut sheet let me be ultimately clear I cannot and no farmer can legally sell beef that they've processed on their own if it's not USDA inspected all of the beef that comes off of this farm that is offered for sale is USDA inspected and is processed in a USDA inspected facility the beef cut sheet we're going to pop it up on the screen a little bit for you and try to put some arrows on some things we have the option of all of our Cuts so we've got brisket ribs short ribs skirt steak flank steak flat iron steak then we have roast we can choose from our own roast or they can just pick the best roast we have Chuck Roast Pot Roast sirloin tip I have round chuck pot London Broil tri-tip and rump roast what we chose was sirloin I do believe got sirloin tip and chuck roast and pot roast I do believe we have very limited supply of roast because they are about three and a half pounds when they are processed now on to steaks we have T-Bone New York strip filet mignon ribeye sirloin and cube steak cube steak is a less than palatable chewy meat that's ran through a process that tenderizes the meat so it's tenderized steak in other words it's like country fried or chicken fried steak that's how you make it okay so we do have cube steak we did do some sirloin steaks Ribeyes fillets New York strip and T-Bones once we get this up on the Stoney Ridge farmer website we'll offer it for sale for you guys so we also have stew beef beef tips and hamburger all these are Under the other category hamburger we can get in hamburger patties or we can just get it ground we do an 80 20 split so 80 percent lean in other words 20 percent fat the fat is the Little Slice of Heaven from the grass-fed beef the fat here is different the fat is better for you arguably there'll be links down in the video description for you guys if you want to do a little research on the fat from grass-fed beef that's pasture arrays versus the fat from beef that's raised on feedlots and typically what happens with beef is farmers will raise beef in a cow calf operation they'll take their calves at about four to six hundred pounds ish to the market they'll sell them they'll be loaded up on a truck and they'll be taken to a feed lot and fattened up for about yeah 12…

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