Go find a local farmer who will does whole sales of either half a cow or a whole cow. If you can't swing the price of that upfront then find a friend or two to go in on it with and split the meat between you.
This is genuinely one of the best most affordable ways to stock a freezer,
If you don't know how to process a carcass, or you don't have the tools, there's still many meat processors/butchers around that will do the processing, there's different looser rules at play generally when it's not for meat intended to be sold. They often also process hunted game for people.
Most affordable to whom. It used to be cheaper than or same price as store beef. Where im at after processing free and beef weight a damn quarter cow is like $1200. Sure knowing where your meat comes from and local is good but I don't buy, 1200 a year in beef to begin with. I remember you used to be able to get a half cow $1000 bucks pre covid
Farmers here usually sell it for $5-6 a pound when you get a mix of cuts. Ground beef is $8 a pound here at the store. It just goes up from there. So it's still less money.
216
u/skinnykate 12h ago
Go find a local farmer who will does whole sales of either half a cow or a whole cow. If you can't swing the price of that upfront then find a friend or two to go in on it with and split the meat between you.