All photography is taken on the farm and our animals.
Our animals are 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 but our current bull is pure hereford. 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 (like silage or baleag). 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 treatment if needed for a sick or injured animal but that has been very rare to happen. We will not hesistate to immunize our herd if needed to prevent disease or illness.
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 as we raise 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.
Butcher fees in 2024 were 90 cents a pound plus $150 for rendering/slaugher per whole animals and additional fees for things like shaved, cubed, burger patties and extra deboning.
We pickup orders at Kelley Meats, box and label it with your name, bring back to the farm for. you to pickup the same day. For 2025 all beef pickups are Wednesdays after 5pm. If you cannoot pickup at the farm on the designated Wednesday you can also pickup you order at Kelley’s. You supply boxes or coolers, pay their processing bill at pickup and will need to settle up with us prior to pickup.
We sell almost all our beef as wholesale Wholes, Halves and Quarters (split half) and a new 20 pound box of mixed cuts ( we no longer offer a 1/8 beef).
Our whole beef on average weigh in around 500-600 pound hanging weigh with a few over 600 pounds.
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, organs and bones are not included in that 60%. We use Kelley meats a USDA inspected processor in Taberg NY.
Meat comes flash frozen, vacuum packed and labelled.
Butcher dates Order Pickup dates
Sept. 24 Wednesday Oct. 8th
Oct. 1st Wednesday Oct. 15th
Oct. 8th Wednesday Oct. 22nd
Oct. 15th Wednesday Oct. 29th
Oct. 22 Wednesday Nov. 5th
Oct. 29 Wednesday Nov. 12th
WHOLE:
Hanging weight estimate is 500-600 pounds (some could be a little smaller or larger)
Discount Price: $5.90/pound by the hanging with plus processing
Regular Price: $6.10/pound by the hanging weight plus processing
This is custom cut to your order. Butcher fees estimate $650-$800 plus 8.5% sales tax.
$40 discount to pickup at Kelley meats.
Estimate total cost approximately $3,600 - 4,400 & varies by the weight and cut order.
$800 deposit is due at ordering. This is NOT refundable.
HALF:
Hanging weights estimate is 250-300 pounds (some could be smaller or larger)
Discount Price: $5.95/pound by the hanging with plus processing
Regular Price: $6.12/pound by the hanging weight plus processing.
Custom cut to your order. Butcher Fees Estimate: $350-400 plus 8.5% sales tax.
$25 discount to pickup at Kelley meats.
Estimate total cost approximately: $1,800-2,200 & varies by weight and cut order.
.$500 deposit is due at ordering and is NOT REFUNDABLE
QUARTER:
This is also called a split half, basically a 1/2 that is divided in half so you get cuts from the rear and front of the animal. It is not custom cut and we use a standard cut order.
$300 deposit due at ordering
Hanging weights are usually 125-150 pounds, but will vary.
Pricing for 1/4 includes the butcher fees. This option is not custom cut, we use a standard cut order.
Discount Price: $7.50 by the hanging weight
Regular Price: $7.72 by the hanging weight
Estimate cost is approximately $935 - $1,120 Pickup at the farm only.
The standard cut order includes: T-bone & Porterhouse steaks, Rib Steaks, Sirloin and Sirloin Tip steaks, half brisket, rump roast, chuck roasts, london broil, stew cubes, ground beef in 1 pound tubes, meaty soup shanks and bag of bones. Other cuts that might be included: Flank steak, skirt steak, short ribs, eye round roast/steak
20 Pound Beef Box
We no longer offer the 1/8 beef because it was very difficult to divide a 1/4 beef into a 1/8 beef evenly and timely. 2 of these boxes would be close to what a 1/8 beef would yield.
$100 deposit due at ordering
Discount Price $260
Regular Price $268
Includes: 1 pack of 2 rib steaks, 1 pack of 2 t-bones or 2 porterhouse or 2 NY strip steaks, 1 pack of sirloin steak, 1 pack of sirloin tip steak, 1 roast (chuck, rump or half brisket), 1-2 packs of stew cubes or meaty soup shanks, 5-7 pound ground beef.
Depending on the weights we might be able to add more of those cuts or some others (flank steak, short ribs, shaved steak, eye round, etc)
TO ORDER
Ordering for new customers opens in early April 2025. Right now we are only taking returning customer orders. Once we open to new orders we will open the online store for payment processing or. you can email/text/call your order also.
BUTCHER FEES as of fall 2024 at Kelley Meats
SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
$25 rendering per whoole
$125 Processing, cut & wrap, Flash Frozen & Labelled (per whole)
Processing Cut & Wrap 90 cents/pound
Burger Patties: 95 cents /pound
shaved/cubed $1.25/pound
Extra deboning $5-10 per piece