Anyone else leaving it laying ? Prices are stupid ..

How much and for what cut?

It’s crazy that’s for sure. It looks like bacon doubled in price too, or close

No. Leftover meatloaf sandwich tonight.

Bout 2 months, I wiped bacon out 2 different Food Lions.

It was $4 for a 16oz package. They were running a sale.

I’d 2 stores in the morning, mrs slumlord would same 2 stores in the afternoon.

Limit of 4 packs

We got about 30 packs. 😃👏🏻

Hit them mfer like Normandy

I put 6 deer in the freezer this season so I haven't bothered looking.

Good man.

Yep

Got any pics?

My buddy lost his grass so he had to take his bred cows to Miles City.

Bred cows mind.


He average 670 dollars a head.

They were not butter ball fat....but they were skin and bone either.


670!

Brisket -$5.99/lb not going to pay that.

Jim , surly with these high prices, your driving a King Ranch by now?😂

That’s ridiculous. Shouldn’t it be at least twice that?

Yep, like some packages of steaks up to $60.00, i.e., a serving for two of Filet Mignon. Ridiculous!

It was a fugging blood bath.

He was assured 1000 a head.

Headed into some interesting times I am afraid.

Not really any, "Cheap Cuts", anymore.

Let’s go Brandon.
I have elk and deer in two freezers and deer season is still on 😊

I didnt put a single deer in the freezer

I just didnt have time

The producers never realize the profit. That’s saved for the man in the middle. The speculator, the broker, the man with soft hands and no mud or blood on his hands. I’d rather my son become a murderer or a thief than a salesman.

What’s it take to open a butcher shop? Sell your own beef and your neighbors?

It’s not like it’s a surprise is it? Should’ve stocked up 3-4 months ago.
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success” – Alexander Graham Bell.

I’m sitting good 👍👍

Them $670 cows must have got butchered in Atlanta when I filled the Yeti up with those 4 whole strip ribeyes for $5.99 a lb

They went to a good home

It would be hard to do with any significant numbers.

Sure you could sell a few but not a few hundred.



We sell our calves in a couple weeks, fingers crossed.

We are eating half Brahma beef and whitetail venison. Neither are near as good as corn fed beef but we are good for a year and there is more where that came from.

Can hear Tin Shed Ned in his 3 pack a pack a day Pall Mall gravelly voice....”mehhh theys was probably utility grade less than select” 🥴

Nobody taking the stink bait 😃



Slumlord gives back to his community

The underserved zipcodes of Glocksville. I’m like a local LeBron

No road kill either?

🦫

I’m all about that bass

No treble

Running barbless hooks here...Just need to remember to keep a tight line.

Lol

Fishing not music. Duh
🦫

I got 11 freezers, I freeze whole beefs. Fugg it, trim off what I need.

LOL... I just got a damage permit for 30. I'm not worried about beef prices much either.

Two freezers full, buying smart. Got 92% ground beef last night for $1.99/lb, a whole ham for 99 cents/lb. Got some center cut pork chops today for $1.49/lb. Buy cheap and stack deep. Use a vacuum sealer.

We eat a lot of pork in our house. Cheaper and better eating.

Better eating than beef? Nope

lol

This^^^^

I was paying $3.98/# last year for whole vac-pac tenderloins. The price now is $8-10 per pound at the same place…..which is actually still a great price but it’s still double the price that it was last year. Getting more independent from grocery stores and relying more on homegrown and local has been our goal. Since our (short) long term plan is to put this state in the rear view mirror and make our permanent residence up north I’m planning the new build with an eye and emphasis on sustainability. Being able to plan, build, plumb and wire properly rather than piecing in later should help with ease and productivity. No longer does one have to do much “penciling” to realize that the initial investment won’t take long to recoup. Not only do you have the benefit of a better and more nutritious vegetable or fruit but it now becomes cheaper than buying some tasteless piece of corporate farmed crap. I doubt I’ll ever raise beef, I’ll just keep supporting the small, local rancher. I don’t see groceries getting cheaper. Food, like everything these days will be used by the government as a weapon.

Gawd....we got on the call list for picking up road kill.

It's embarrassing.

Hell no man, grab it up.

Got a half a beef, 30# of bacon, chicken tits, a few hams. Freezer is stuffed! I’ll leave the $50 crab legs to the welfare mamas

This right here


Back when bitches was buyin primers and powder, Slumlord was stacking beef and bacon


Cause I did primers during Clinton 🤨

Love the T-Shirt! Free with a $20 donation to the PTL club?

I got a mystery package the other day. In it was a jar of someone's homemade dry rub. I put it on a couple 1-3/8" thick pork chops and grilled them up tonight. It was pretty damn good—layers of mild to medium heat with just a touch of sweetness in the background. I need to try it on thinner cuts next, that and fish.

Mfer trying to steal my flow

The gimp looks like she might be a hottie.

No idea

That’s my taxidermist.

We can ask Happy Camper/Barnabus/RickyD/Superchub if they have the same shirt

Good deal. I’ve changed it up a bit since then but hopefully for the better. Use it awhile and let me know what you’d like different.

Lol. You never had flow. 😆

We've always sent 95% of our steers directly to Cargill. When the packing plants stopped taking steers at the start of covid, we started selling our beef privately. We've been plugging away, and so far we haven't been back to Cargill.

Ninja please I’m the key to your success

Wait till you get my full Alton review of your season-all on fillet Bar-S hot dogs a-la-king

That's fücking crazy. Poor fügker. How many head? Are they headed for slaughter?

Lol

I can’t wait

I figure you’re doing pretty good. Several meat shops have opened around us selling local beef over the last few months. They seem to be busy.

What do you have in the other freezers?

I wasn't kidding.....I have 7 freezers.


Looking for another one.

I wish I wouldnt have given away my 1976 General Electric 25.3 Cubic Ft a couple yrs ago.


That baby was built solid


6 freezers
2 fridges
3 mini fridges

Oh...and we now have as of last Thurs...a Taylor Swift commercial coca cola beverage cooler

I hope you’re Mormon and have 14 kids by 3 wives?

Most of you can still buy beef cheaper than you could raise it.

Just left the local Freddie’s 90/10 ground chuck $8.99 lb.

Most of the idiots on here couldn’t raise $1.25 to buy a senior coffee and a sausage biscuit off the dollar menu at McDonalds Wabi.

I'd put it kinder than that.

It takes a lot of money, equipment, and experience to raise cattle.

Shut yo mouth.

I spent all day cleaning a mini fridge I found at the dumps.

It wasn't in the dumps...it was sitting on the ground before the dumpster. That means it's still good!


Nope. Nearly ruined a couple gallons of milk, a bunch of cheese and several cabbages.


The sumbitch went all the way in the dumpster when I took it back.


We have an outside fridge freezer...but when it gets cold we have to abandon it.

3 caribou and 60' of gill net for salmon keeps the store-bought to a minimum. At that, I only took just over half my 35 fish limit. I ain't sharing my fishing take anymore, so that's enough.

We eat a bit of chicken and pork for variety every once in awhile. seldom beef. I'll make an effort for a moose next fall also. Ain't sharing that either if I get one - that's two years eating right there plus a few dozen quarts canned.

Buying beef off my farm manager every year has friggen ruined me from eating industrial beef. Can’t stand the mushy mouth feel and the slimy fat. Now the bastard has started half bred heritage pigs, and I’m on the hook for one or two of those every year. Now industrial pork chops are dry and chewy....

But compared to you guys, the redhead and I are just pikers, merely two freezers and three fridges.

Must go atone........

That could very well be true. My farmer buddy down the road refuses to raise a few for his friends and church buddies. As for me, I used to raise chickens and even egg layers for about 12 yrs. I could not raise a meat bird for cheaper, however, they were far superior to the store bought ones. Now days I just buy a rotissery chicken. Sometimes they are only $5 , but they are barely 2 lbs. At least it's cooked and packaged. We could get our eggs as cheap as store bought , but barely cheaper. Our eggs too were far superior , however.

It takes a lot of hard work, and a lot of money to raise cattle.

Short of game, I do not freeze meat. I generally cook what I just bought.

Too much competition around here for placement on that list.

Easier just to go to the foodbank. It’s a judgment free zone.

It wouldn’t be so bad if the ranchers got some of the increase. I don’t know where it goes but not there.

I'd like to find some beef like that. Everytime we've tried to buy a prime Angus it turns out to be an old Holstein that died of old age out behind a dairy. If the farmer does ever get us a good cow the butcher swaps it out for some old garbage in the back. I need to find a farmer and butcher I can trust so until then it'll be costco. I've had the best consistently from Costco but I'm sure there's better beef out there.

Bb

A filet is a once a thing for my son and I in Dallas. Five dollar burger here.

Then why bother?

I’m mostly a ramen noodle guy

Beef more than 2 or 3 times a week, my gall bladder reverses operations.

I hope to phuukkk that those seriously ranching today take a serious view of it 40 years from now with their children...

That's sad

What chu mean?

Saw outside skirt steak at Publix yesterday for $23.49/lb. I literally busted out laughing at that one

$6.50 a pound for 80/20 ground.

But, but we dont have to deal with Trump’s meanie tweets anymore.

Richard has one beef left. PM me and I’ll give you his number. Mine is getting killed in the morning.

What are you paying wrapped?

You whine about your industry all of the time Jim. Do you see your kiddos carrying it on in 2045?

You got one that's all rib eyes $.99 cent a pound processed

went to the store tonight - a pack of chicken thighs usually runs about $6. Its $21 now

That isn't inflation.

If they want to sure.

There will always be a need, and the land should still be here.


Interesting that you would classify it as whining.

I put up beef in the Classified about 2 weeks ago... $5 - $7 wrapped (final was actual)... NO TAKERS. NONE... ZERO.

We sold it last year for four and half to five.

That's awesome, las.

When the all hat and no cows are done, think about 2025 when beef production is down 50%

I bought Greenbrier County Chuck Roast beef at $4.59 last Saturday and I bought Ground Beef (73%) at $1.98 (my favorite). Bought some Strip Steaks today at $6.98. I want beef that’s has some grain feed, not all grass feed.

I have too much meat in the freezer. I called the DOW to see if they had a needy list, they said "no, everyone wants elk" 🙄

Country of origin and kill date

Ours are finished on 100 percent free choice ground barley.

We raise the barley in fact.

Jim, what is free choice barley?

We grind the barley and put it in a self feeder.


They can eat as much as they want.


We keep mineral and salt in front of them. Plus some straw and grass hay.

It went up this year, and this may not be entirely accurate, but pretty close. About a buck 40 on the hoof, and cut, wrap and freeze is about $500.

Honestly, I don’t pay much attention since the guy works for me full time and I’ve been trying to convince his dad that selling retail should be higher than sale barn prices. He thinks that’s “unfair” and “ charging too much”. Honest as the day is long, but not the best business man. And I love the beef, so I just count out however $100 bills he writes the bill for. The processing bill is a bit higher than for most because I have them minimize the amount of ground beef by cutting a bunch of stew meat.

The cow isn’t charged for eating it.

Thats pretty good price. No run away for sure.

just like Golden Corral

Some farmers and co-ops are already together in this area to sell straight from the farm bypass that middle man.

Yep.


Less sweet tea however.

Ahh. Thanks.

What we do is take our tail enders and put them on feed.


The price is a break even for us....but we basically get our beef for free that way.

USA according to the butcher and store owner, from West “By God” Virginia, Greenbrier County which they state in a newspaper ad. Kill date I cannot confirm. I know the the butcher who does the dirty work, he’s done a beef and hog for my brother, although the beef and hog came from Raleigh County, WV.

I hear ya... and I am glad for ya... TOUGH BUSINESS

Just so happened we had to be in the city last week. Sams Lexington, & picked up all this.

Choice, whole strip loin $7.37. We've bought many of these & first 2 cuts out of this one did not disappoint.

Assorted pork chops, $1.29

80/20 ground beef, $3.30

Chicken quarters $.89

Baby back ribs $ 3.47

This all seems reasonable considering, & nothing like some of the prices I hear of in some parts.

Frigging chicken is stupid cheap right now.


They are running sales up here for under a buck.

High on the quarters

Decent on the 80/20


I can still get quarters 59cent

80% is 4, almost 5 between a couple different stores

But I missed a $3.29 lb sale 2 weeks ago.

Some ultra-gunho asshat “conservative” called me a damn liar on TikTok and banned me. I’m a Trump guy but I woulda smashed this fugger’s chiclets in like a shark. He said hamburger meat was $8 a lb “almost everywhere” I told him we had burger $3 a lb and that he was full of shît. lol
Mfer getting his info from Brighteon

I thought tik tok was a video player?

It's not only for women to degrade themselves. Anyone can degrade themselves.

Nah man, you can break hearts and bruise minds in their comments section.

I have much to learn.

Would you like to vote in another survey?

Kinda.


How you gonna keep em on the farm once they have seen Karl Hungus???

Small chain store close to work usually has some kind of steaks on sale. Yesterday was NY strip for 5.99. All sourced locally.

If it doesn't rain well this spring, we'll be sending anout half the herd to town to take a similar beating. Drought last summer, with a hail storm in June that hammered about 1/3 of our pasture.

Around here, I'm wondering if there's going to be even 1/2 the herd left at the end of this. Spot price for hay has crept above $300 per ton, some touching $350. Guys that didn't have their hay bought have no choice but to pay and go broke, or sell and go broke.

It's just brutal.

I just wait for stuff to go on sale and freeze it. Regular prices are in fact stupid. Worst example I recently saw was a pack of stew meat for $7.99 a pound and laughed my azz off.

Beef ribs are 899 a pound

7 here, 2 bucks turned into jerky.
Also bought a whole rib roast for 4.79 #. I think I still have a few turkeys and couple dozen trout in three deep freeze.

Prices really don’t matter at the grocery store when ya swiping the eeebbbeeeeetttttteeeeee card.

I took the wife out to one of the nicer restaurants around last night, and they had a 12oz ribeye for $39. One of their specials was a 7oz filet mignon for $49.

We got plenty of venison as we do each year. I haven't looked at beef prices in months but the wife tells me what she sees at the store.

18$ a pound for strip steaks
25+ for Ribeye

I'll just keep shooting deer.

I ought three medium size NY strips and one very small filet yesterday, just over $70. The filet was $39.99 a pound. Don’t recall the strip price.
For a special occasion, but still…..

True. Food prices hurt the middle class, the welfare class gets ever increasing food stamps so they don't really care what the prices are. If you see somebody filling their cart up with the more expensive cuts of beef around here it's a 99% chance they're paying for it with an EBT card.

IMHO... always have a plan B

Hasn't that been the going rate for years?

In Kansas??

Yep, I just checked the menu at our regular steak joint my wife and I go to once or twice a month, $45 for 12 oz. ribeye and $49 for a filet (which the wife always gets). I could be wrong but I don't think that's noticeably higher than it has been for years.

Motto at our joint is "beef free since 93'!" Been batting 1000+ since then. I have literally not bought a piece of beef from the store since then.

Please don't break the streak!

That's quite a bit more than we are accustomed to paying.

Y'all use some kind of baskets to keep all that stuff organized? I keep finding stuff that should have been cooked last year, or the year before that....
I got a few wire baskets that come from some old freezers. I guess I need to hit the dump for some more.

Seems to be about $5-10 more than it was the last time we went, which was about a year ago.

Milk crates

Stackable modules

One or two local meat market/butcher shops usually have a sale on pork in April... Last year it was $2.30/# for half a hog - cut, vacuum packed and ready for pickup... Beef runs about $3.30 usually, but this week I ordered a quarter from another place.. I pay the farmer for the hanging weight of the quarter, and the shop charges $1.80# for processing.. Only thing I buy at our local grocery store is chicken - when it's cheap - and stock up with at least a month's worth, otherwise I let it go....

Prices just went up. Local ranchers are now charging 8.75 per pound for 1/4 - 1/2 calf.

In true Donner party fashion.

EFHutton: Yes!
Relying more on fish, wildfowl and game I get myself.
Sad what china joe and his ho have heaped upon this once great nation - in so many countless ways!
Fugg'em both.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Wish you guys could come take a few of these.
(wishing, not whining)


All they know is alfalfa and corn.

Maybe they'll eat enough netwrap and you won't have to worry about them anymore

Ben, they usually go for eating from the flat side but we blocked the end with grass bales.
(you can sorta see in the pic)

Hey Sam. Coyotes gotta eat to.Hint. Edk

Looks like nice feed anyway

thx joe & the hoe

You have em hanging and I will come pick em up.

GMO corn, you might not want 'em....lol

I don't mind a little GMO.

I just scored another elk because there were 200 coming in and crushing one of the locals pile. Good deal for me and him.

Sure ain’t getting those increases for my fat cattle

I might eat more deer if I could feed them corn, peanut butter, turnip greens, green soybean leaves.


I ‘ve never tasted deer that been on corn from titty to tailgate


They all raunchy here eating rotten acorns, weeds, sumac berries, rose bushes, cedar limbs and willow bark. Then they piss all over themselves too like them old people at the post office🤮

If people are hungry and won't work to feed their families hunting/fishing no longer has a season. Always been that way. Harder times are the less wildlife you will see. Gw

lol




You guys know we are on the rez and there is a grey area with outsiders shooting deer.



Guess we could hire a local to shoot and gut em out, donate half back to the tribe.

I honestly haven't shot a deer on the rez in years. Freezer full of beef.....lol






I have heard elk will really get into your groceries.



Luckily all we have are the whitetail.

Back to the beef.


If it doesn't snow(some more) and rain(this spring) we are officially gonna have to sell cows.



Not whining mind you, just stating facts.


Don't care what they're worth, just wanna see good grass!

Hehehehehe.....

Cuzzin, you know I love Ed.



Covid has me all wound up...lol

We're wishing for a drier year here.

It's been so wet here, we couldn't dry any hay. Made a bunch of baleage, way more than we need. We usually count on selling quite a bit(of dry hay), but the baleage isn't worth the trucking.

$4.99 pound for 93% ground beef in Flagstaff this weekend. (good price around here)

hard to figure out where the profit is. trucking? packing? giant grocery chains?

Year of extremes.


How about we share...lol

Gets you all antsy in your pantsy!

Me to.

Not whining mind you....

Two tons a day!

All the years reading the posts on here. It really seems like we really have opposite weather cycles. Dry there/wet here. Everyone's been posting how cold it is out there all winter. We just got winter weather two weeks ago.

Cry cuzzin'....lol



HC, holy chit!

At least here with the deer, when it warms back up they sorta lay off. Sorta.

Of course they eat just as much when it's nice and green out in the field.

It's like 40 right now as I set next to my gas Weber.


Got a couple 2.5 pound rib steaks on the grill Ben!


4.50 a pound!

My buddy used to live near Dell Montana.

He said the elk were worse than cattle because the elk would tear down a stack and schit the whole thing.

Elk are terrible damn creatures.

Worse than coons gettin' into cat food.

We had a little bit of a record -21 here the other morning. I don't really remember last time it was that cold. Got up to 5 during the day though.

Just got a whole cow ground into burger, pretty cheap but the kids gotta eat..grin

Around here everyone biches about bear, but at least they sleep most of the winter.

Gawddang coon got an àsshole the size of a soup can.

We had 38 below one morning a while ago.

Made the news! Hahaha!

That's officially cold enough to change your plans for the day.


Or at least slow them way the fuuck down......lol

Not just beef prices. Paid $3.99 per LB today, for a couple smoked ham hocks today at the local store. Made some ham and bean soup w/cornbread.

Kind of pricey for "maybe" getting 2 OZ meat off each one? Oh well, it sure adds the flavor, so I pay the price and eat well!

I made 77 trays just like this one...