finished beef steer price ?

swindave · Jun 2, 2021

if anyone has bought, or sold a beef lately,
what is your local hanging weight price?
i have a couple to sold, and want to come up with a fair price,
thanks for your help

diesel fumes · Jun 2, 2021

$3/ per pound

rrlund · Jun 2, 2021

I've still been getting $1.10 live weight. Figure they'll hang about 60% of live. Some folks will sell you higher priced, lower quality cattle, but I have a conscience.

jon f mn · Jun 2, 2021

I'm getting $2.59/pound hanging now but some are asking $3. I've seen grass fed advertised for $4 locally.

larbear · Jun 2, 2021

Sold the one steer I had a month ago. I paid the kill cut and wrap, 3.75/ lb which is what the abattoir/ butcher shop is priced at for halves or mixed quarters. Dresden Ontario Canada. Whatever a local butcher shop sells halves for will give you a price to go by.

72supr · Jun 2, 2021

Sold some for two twenty a pound and they pay the locker.

DoubleO7 · Jun 2, 2021

Month ago had local processor pickup, kill, hang for 21 days, traditional cuts, vacuum packed for $2.75 per pound total.

P.S.
Called one day out of the blue and they came and picked up the beast the next day.

john in la · Jun 2, 2021

We talking half a cow or whole cow ???
If a half who finds the buyer of the other half ??

SHALER · Jun 2, 2021

Lucky you Dave, the JBS russian hack will give the monopoly we have in this country on beef another excuse to raise prices, ergo the beef at the store will go up, so you will have some room to raise your price as well.

muleman51 · Jun 2, 2021

Sold 2 head last week to butcher $1.30 pound, 1400 pounds, 13 months old, corn fed, prime beef. Have 4 more to go in next 2 months.

jhwis · Jun 2, 2021

I figure what I'd get at the sale barn for a fed steer and charge that plus processing. I got to sleep at night.

jon f mn · Jun 3, 2021

I sell hogs by the half and steers by the quarter, you can buy as many halves or quarters as you want. I have no trouble selling a quarter beef or half hog.

BarnyardEngineering · Jun 3, 2021

(quoted from post at 20:07:04 06/02/21) I figure what I'd get at the sale barn for a fed steer and charge that plus processing. I got to sleep at night.

Do you charge what you'd get at the sale barn on a good day or a bad day? The price can swing by 1/3 to 1/2 depending on who is there that day.

rrlund · Jun 3, 2021

I'm the same way. I know guys who were still getting $1.25 when they dropped under a dollar. I figure I can take a little less than sale barn price by a few cents since there's no commission or anything.

K Effective · Jun 4, 2021

I sold mine this April for $2.50./pound hanging.

My normal butcher couldn't get us in until October, so I was forced to use another place, 36 miles farther away. They charged more for every aspect of the cutting, and don't kill on site- all animals go through either an independent "harvester" or are harvested by the truck of the butcher, which was booked for 2021 already. Additional cost of trucking the hanging halves to the butcher's cooler after harvest was $25 per head.

Not one customer complained. Many wanted more beef than I had (always give returning customers the chance to buy an equal amount first).

I think average cost to the butcher was $160/quarter, and I ate an extra $10 per head of transportation fees, since my guy who hauled for us (for possibly 50 years) died three days before the first load was to leave.

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