Serious question: in other parts of the country are you able to easily buy a cow or pig and have it butchered at a local butcher? I'm in Nebraska and its very simple. I will help Feed the Pedes if it becomes needed.
And no, while I live near Denver, which used to be the West's quintessential cow town, I have no idea how to get this process started. Nor is my freezer big enough to store a cow.
I live in a county of 10k and there are 3 businesses in my county (butcher, processors, smokehouses). I can buy a cow from a farmer I know, he delivers it to the butcher, and I pay the farmer roughly $3 per pound for the finished beef and pay the butcher about $0.60 per pound for processing. I then divide the costs and the beef between 4 families and we are setup for a year with steaks, ground beef and roasts.
Ive seen lots of cows in NorthEast Colorado (Sterling, CO sticks out in my memory), contact a small farmer/rancher and ask them if you're interested. Many of them raise a product (cows) that is better quality than "feedlot cattle" and they can make more in private sale than they get from a packing plant that pays lower rates for small quantities and higher rates to feedlots that bring in larger quantities. The Denver Stock Show is still the premiere stock show in the Midwest, so Denver is still a "Cow Town", big time!
Serious question: in other parts of the country are you able to easily buy a cow or pig and have it butchered at a local butcher? I'm in Nebraska and its very simple. I will help Feed the Pedes if it becomes needed.
A live one?
And no, while I live near Denver, which used to be the West's quintessential cow town, I have no idea how to get this process started. Nor is my freezer big enough to store a cow.
I live in a county of 10k and there are 3 businesses in my county (butcher, processors, smokehouses). I can buy a cow from a farmer I know, he delivers it to the butcher, and I pay the farmer roughly $3 per pound for the finished beef and pay the butcher about $0.60 per pound for processing. I then divide the costs and the beef between 4 families and we are setup for a year with steaks, ground beef and roasts.
that's awesome!
Ive seen lots of cows in NorthEast Colorado (Sterling, CO sticks out in my memory), contact a small farmer/rancher and ask them if you're interested. Many of them raise a product (cows) that is better quality than "feedlot cattle" and they can make more in private sale than they get from a packing plant that pays lower rates for small quantities and higher rates to feedlots that bring in larger quantities. The Denver Stock Show is still the premiere stock show in the Midwest, so Denver is still a "Cow Town", big time!
denver is now cucked