Is Selling Beef Profitable??
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- We slaughter a few steers on Rolling Hills Farm each year to provide quality beef to neighbor families but is it profitable? Come along and we'll show you how we do it. #smallfamilyfarm, #beefcattle, #beef,
Great video! I have been buying beef from local farmers since 2000, only buy chicken from the market, the pork I buy is from a local farm store. Nothing better than locally raised meat.
Thanks for supporting local. Agree on the quality.
Great video. We sell a fair amount of hay to folks raising either a cow or some goats - people wanting meat and dairy, antibiotic free, organic, etc. There is definitely a goodly market segment around us doing this.
@@HumbleHaymakers I think it’s a healthy, growing trend everywhere.
Good morning Dave and Dawn ☕️☕️
Morning Gary
Home grown beef is the way to go. Brush mowing is always a satisfying job.
Good evening Dave and Dawn. We could use another processor around here. Pretty good hanging weights. 👍🙂
@@farawayfarm2520 Thanks Will. It’s a business with a future for sure. Floodwood Custom Meats is able to take a lot more animals with their expansion.
We've still have to butcher yet....the weather just hasn't been fit for it yet. Nothing better than home grown beef. We've got too much snow now to do any brushing, the brush will still be there come spring. Thanks Dave.
@@brenterickson1695 Looks like we got the right amount overnight with 6 inches. How much snow on you?
@Rollinghillsfarmsmn We got about the same as you last night but we've had a bit more previously....Might as well make another snow plowing video 🤣🤣🤣
Morning Dave. Coffee’s on and the better half is putting together beef stew in the crockpot.
We just bought a steer with my sister and with over 730 lbs of meat between us and knowing where it came from and how it was raised it really was a no brainer decision. At about $5.35 lb in the freezer we won’t ever go back to store bought.
That’s great. We started raising beef for our family for the same reason. It became a business after that.
We still have a source for custom butchered dairy steers.
We don't use the volume we did so we buy by the pound from a local meat market that custom butchers.
On that thought during covid they limited how much fresh we could buy, but unlimited frozen. Always interested in the process since we butchered our own at home. Thank you Dave.
Thanks Bryce. Quality matters.
It’s great to see a revival of farm bought products recently, our neighbour has quite a large service built up like you and they also promote green cover and regenerative farming as well as winter grazing
@@piperdoug428 Just seems like the right way to feed families in today’s world.
You never want to completely chase the best market. If you switch to selling all calves, then when the market corrects you would have to start all over finding customers. . .Great video Dave and Dawn. .
@@e.a.bfarms Totally agree.
We so wish your farm was closer to us down here in the metro area. There are very few producers that sell good quality protein and veggies less than an hour from our home in Blaine, MN. Love your channel though❣️
@@wrinklesandsprinkles Thanks. I wonder if there are any farmers doing CSA shares near you. Might be worth an internet search.
Looking good. Can't beat home grown beef.
@@scottnyberg4290 That’s for sure
We feed out a half dozen steers, keep what we need, 1/4, or 1/2. The rest, we sell on the hot weight. Processor charges kill fee, cutting and wrapping. All paid by the customer.
We can't legally sell the meat directly to the customer, unless it's killed at a USDA facility. Anyone can cut and wrap it to be sold.
If we could sell at store prices, we'd be making a lot better money.
Thanks for the processing tour!
You’re welcome. Your system sounds just like ours. It was the only way we could make money with cows for years.
Covering the head gate with a tarp is a good idea never thought of it
@@michiganhay7844 Thanks. It’s a heavy tarp but I’m not sure it will last. Need to add bungee cords.
Your 2 cattle went good for their age, kill out weight Dave. I send cattle to the meat factory every month from my farm. I don't sell to the public, I could but I choose to sell to a factory. I fatten mostly heifers and they go before they are 24 months but of course my cattle aren't suckler so bucket calves don't fatten as quick. But since I moved to this system, I'm runs 3 times more cattle than when I had cows and calves. The last load of cattle I sold in January 2025 were all males and killed out at over 400kgs or 881 Lbs. We talk in kilos weight now, Lbs. are gone over here. Growth promoters are banned in Europe and antibiotic use is highly regulated, every time one is used, it must be recorded in a farm diary. My cattle currently in sheds for the winter are getting 10kg per head of chopped sugar beet and 4kgs of concentrate feed twice daily.
Sounds like you have a very focused strategy built to work within your regulatory framework. We probably spend more time direct selling than we get paid for but our neighbors appreciate it.
Must be a lot of beer drank in upper minn
I think the plant gets those boxes for free…but yes, beer’s pretty popular. Even more popular across the river in Wisconsin 😅.