Beef prices going up????

[KDM]

We don't eat much for beef anymore. Wild game and pork. bought my own boar and a couple sows this year. I can just butcher as i need then. Wouldn't mind doing about a 75lb live weight pig on the grill too and maybe a couple 125-150lbers on a spit every so often. raising my own meat is kind of nice to know how they are treated and fed. Might butcher a couple goats a year if they taste ok.

The difference in taste is noticeable when you grow your own hogs or any meat for that matter. Cooked lots of goat while in Lima Peru with the state department years ago and I have no complaints. Very lean meat and if you go mediterranean, persian, or south american with your spices, it's a darn good meal. They didn't have the big boer goat down there that we have available here though. I suspect the goat meat from boer goats would be a bit better than the smallish ones available down there. Let us know how it goes if you get one.

 

[MarbleEyez]

Goat is delicious. Don't look at the price for those right now either

 

[Tymurrey]

Goat is delicious. Don't look at the price for those right now either

Prices are definitely higher. We have the dumb nigerian dwarfs so not much meat on them but easy to handle and until i get more pens set up i don't want to expand the herd much. Out of the 4 kids we had this year 3 were males. I'm debating on keeping them, banding them in a month more or so and just butchering them this fall. They don't cost nothing to let them grow all summer grazing around the yard and i'm pretty sure i could fit a whole goat on the pellet grill then.

 

[Allen]

I know a guy who bought and butchered a couple llamas a number of years ago at the exotic livestock auction.

Not sure about now, but they were quite reasonably priced back then.

 

[NDSportsman]

$9 beef, across the board, is affordable. Everyone forgets that that's $9/# prime cuts as well. $9/# ribeye, $9/# porterhouse etc. It's not 1992 anymore, where burger costs sub $2.

People don't blink an eye at spending $5 on a bag of chips, or $9 on a coffee. But GOD FORBID they spend $9-$10/# buying a beef (protein) from a local producer.

Your nice $5 tube ground beef comes from critters taken to Long Prairie,MN. That's your johne's disease special.

This. Those $9/# T-bones are delicious!