All photography is taken on the farm and our animals.
12/10/24
beef if sold out for 2024.
Start to finish 100% grassfed - Zero Grain EVER -
Healthy - Nutrient Dense - Sustainable
Always Delicious
Our beef herd is a mix of mostly hereford with a little belted galloway mixed in from a bull we had many years ago. They are entirely grassfed from start to finish. We NEVER give them grain of any sort, no corn, no wheat, no oats, no barley and no fermented feeds either. They graze on our carefully planned and managed pastures from May til November and never come into a barn until winter. We make all of our own hay for their winter feed. The herd always has free choice of organic minerals. We built a barn a few years ago from our own timber where the cows go in the winter. They have a large outside area where they are fed hay and in the barn a deep bedding pack of wood chips that eventually will be composted down and applied to our fields. They are only at the barn in the winter, once we start grazing in May they are always on pasture somewhere on the farm.
Our pastures have been pesticide and herbicide free for the 14 years we have been here. We make all our own fertility from compost and never have used no lime or artifiicial fertilizers.
We started grazing beef at our old farm in Lafayette (26 years ago!) when we were a young family raising alot of our own food from our homestead. We slowly grew the homestead into a farm business and learned along the way how to improve our herd, how to manage their grazing so that the land and grass keeps growing, improving and is highly productive- nautrally.
Most of our mom cows have been born on the farm, all the offspring that become beef are born and raised by their mother right here on our pastures. Our purebred hereford bull, Copper is also grazing here on the farm. If you come by the farm you won’t always see the herd as the move all over the farm as we move them twice a day to new grass and let the grazed areas rest a month or two.
We have never used hormones ever. We may use an antibiotic or similar medicine if needed for a sick or injured animal but that has been very rare to happen.
Our prices reflect the absolute true cost of us raising the animals for over 2 years, caring for their mothers for years and years, paying for the farm itself, for us to make a fair living and all the expenses of that. We know there is cheaper priced meat out there but we don’t strive for cheap, we strive for a fair living for us raising delicious, nutrtious meat from our well cared for animals.
Our beef go to Kelley meats in Taberg NY to be processed under USDA inspection. Our beef is dry aged for 7-10 days simply because it does not need any longer like the grain fed does.
We pickup orders at Kelley Meats, box and label it with your name, bring back to the farm and temporarily hold it in our freezers until you pickup. Our butcher dates and pickup meat dates are pretty firm, we pickup meat 2 weeks afterr our butcher dates and meat MUST BE PICKED UP at the farm that day or within 1-2 days, BUT this depends on how much freezer space we have, sometimes we have it and sometimes we have none! You can also pickup at Kelley Meats yourself and pay their butcher fees at pickup once you have settled your bill with us. We will ask you your preference.
We sell almost all our beef as wholesale Wholes, Halves and Quarters (split half) and limited amounts of 1/8’s. We usually only process beef in the fall.
Our whole beef on average weighs in around 600 pounds with some in the 500 pound range and a few in the 700 pound range.
Our Regular pricing is when you pay with credit or debit card.
Cash/Check Discount Price is when you pay with cash or check.
Our Prices are based on the hanging weight. Yields of meat in your freezer are usually around 60% of the hanging weight. We use Kelley meats a USDA inspected processor in Taberg NY.
Meat comes flash frozen, vacuum packed and labelled.
For reference only we have done a breakdown of your ESTIMATED cost and yield based on a 600 pound whole hanging weight which has been our average weight in past years BUT sometimes we have some smaller in the 500 pound range and some larger at 700 pounds. We use 600 pounds to give you an ESTIMATE only as that has been our average weights.
WHOLE:
Sold out of Wholes for 2024.
$5.50 Regular price $5.35 Cash Discount price based on the hanging weight PLUS butcher fees
This is custom cut to your order. Estimate the butcher fees to be approx. $750
Estimate cost is approx. $3,200 plus the butcher fees (see below for what our butcher fees are as of 2023), for a total of approx. $3,950. But this will vary depending on the hanging weights and butcher fees.
On a 600 pound hanging weight this would yield about: 360 pounds of meat for your freezer plus organs and bones.
$800 deposit is due at ordering. This is NOT refundable.
HALF:
Sold out
$5.55 regular price. $5.40 cash discount price. based on the hanging weight PLUS butcher fees
This is custom cut to your order. Estimate butcher fees to be approx. $400
An estimate cost is approx. $1600 plus the butcher fees or a total of approx. $2,000, and this will vary depending on the hanging weight and butcher fees.
(see below for what our butcher fees are as of late 2023).
This should yield you on a 300 pound hanging weight half beef approx. 180 pounds of meat for your freezer plus organs and bones.
.$500 deposit is due at ordering and is NOT REFUNDABLE
QUARTER:
SOLD OUT
$6.95 regular price. $6.80 Cash/check discount price based on the hanging weight
This INCLUDES butchering fees.
Estimate a 1/4 to have a hanging weight around 150 pounds of meat in your freezer plus bones.
Your cost would be in approx. $1.020. Keep in mind this will vary depending on the hanging weight of the animals.
Deposit of $300 is due at ordering.
This option is not custom cut, we use a standard cut order because it is a Half beef split in half and each half has to be cut similar with a few exceptions. You get cuts from the front and rear quarters: Half brisket, chuck roasts, rump roast, london broils, sirloin steaks, sirloin tip steak (or opt for shaved steak) tbones and porterhouses, rib steaks, stew cubes, meaty soup shanks, ground beef. This no longer offers short ribs but is replaced with additional ground beef, you do have the option of sirloin tip steaks or shaved steak. We will ask you your preference before the beef goes to the butcher. The ground beef comes in 1 pound bulk tubes. Sometimes we can replace all the ground beef with patties- this is an additional cost to you of 95. cents a pound that will be added to your total. This is NOT always available but let us know if you would like this and we will TRY to have it done that way.
1/8 beef
Possibley available- contact us (email is best).
Regular price: $6.95 a pound by the hanging wt.
Cash Discount Price: 6.80 a pound by the hanging wt and includes the butcher fees.
Deposit of $150 for 1/8 due at ordering
A 1/8 is simply a 1/4 beef divided in half. Since some cuts are hard to divide evenly between the 1/8, each order will vary just a little. What you get is a really tasty assortment of cuts that will include roasts, steaks, stew meat, meaty soup shanks, ground beef and a few other cuts.
Estimate your cost to be approx. $510 and yield about 45 pounds of meat for your freezer.
This will vary depending on the hanging weight of the animal.
TO ORDER
Call or email the farm with your order request. We currently only have openings for our October butcher dates. Deposits are due within 2 week of ordering. You mail a check to the farm or we will email an invoice for card payments. I will be getting the online ordering open soon too.
BUTCHER FEES as of fall 2023 at Kelley Meats
SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
$15 rendering.
$125 Processing, cut & wrap, Flash Frozen & Labelled (per whole)
Burger Patties: 95 cents /pound
shaved/cubed $1.25/pound
Extra deboning $5 per piece