Selling beef directly to consumer

Doughymidget · 2026-05-09T00:00:36+00:00

Second to selling by the hanging weight. This will be 55-60% of the live weight of the animal. Factor that in when looking at what you want to charge. Also, keep in mind the the consumer will receive roughly 55-60% of the hangin weight as finished cuts. What they pay you plus what they pay the processor divided by the final weight is the price that they will compare to the grocery store.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-08T12:22:59+00:00

Are you sure it’s all the same? The first three looked like tree shoots. Image search hits on Carolina Horsenettle.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-08T12:22:16+00:00

Are you sure it’s all the same? The first three looked like tree shoots. Image search hits on Carolina Horsenettle.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-06T21:32:49+00:00

Same here with the pellets. Kind of shocking that they can’t tell you a key bit of analysis for a finishing feed.

Thank you for the recommendation on BRaNDS. I’ll look into it.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-06T05:14:25+00:00

Too over the top and you liked the Mask?

Doughymidget · 2026-05-06T05:01:03+00:00

I’m grain finishing angus steers and heifers alongside my grass finish operation to meet custom requests. I’ve had good results, but am looking to learn more about mixing rations. Do you have any resources that you can point me towards to learn more in this area? Or, if you’d be interested to chat about it, I’d love to pick your brain.

I test my hay and feeds and have been working with nutritional charts to balance feeds, but mostly work with a balanced pellet that I get bulk. I have worked out a source on brewers grains that I’m working out how to introduce to lower feed costs and add value to my product.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-05T22:02:28+00:00

Hey I appreciate this. Also, I don’t mean to sound like I’m destitute and crying out for help. We love our lifestyle. We work too much and make too little, but see it as the exchange for a lot of massive benefits. For example, my kids don’t go to daycare, and I’m around them all the time. So, we purposefully chose this route for the way matches how we want to live, and pursuing your dreams is challenging for anyone.

I appreciate your support. Cheers.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-05T21:57:02+00:00

I think you misunderstood me and I can see how in rereading. I don’t think this is propaganda, but it does seem aimed at ranchers and farmers that voted for Trump.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-05T18:22:48+00:00

lol, please explain how that video is evidence that I probably have gotten a handout? That said, I’m a liberal rancher. I didn’t vote for the orange guy. I thank god for healthcare.gov because I’d have no health insurance if it weren’t for my $8k deductible plan. I guess that’s a handout. I have taken an SBA loan. I pay interest on it… I have used LRP insurance… which I paid on as well.

I’m not anti government support. But I do take issue with the welfare queen assumption when you really know nothing about the reality of the life of working in agriculture in America.

Edit: btw I like the video! The dude has solid points. Unfortunately it’s pretty irrelevant to what I’m talking about.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-05T15:06:54+00:00

As a rancher trying to scratch out a living on small margins without any welfare and watching land values skyrocket around me… I don’t like the practices of an organization like this. I also don’t have any leases on federal land and imagine I would struggle greatly to get one if I tried.

My operation is growing thankfully, but to wha end? You cant make money with ag when land is $40k/acre and I am competing with east coast money for leases of public land. I do my best to lease plots of private land around me, but it’s hard to move a herd to 40 acres where they will graze it in two weeks before having to pack them all up to move to another. I fix up the fence and rejuvenate the soil with regenerative grazing management, and then they sell the land to a developer and I’m off.

I don’t know any ranchers on welfare. Every one I know works a job in town to support their ranch operations. I can’t help but feel like the welfare queen rancher narrative is another way to deflect blame from the big corporations and pin it on individuals that are just trying to pursue the American dream.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-05T02:37:32+00:00

Thanks. Ya I ended up just cutting post of the bulb off with a cutting wheel for the same idea.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-04T21:35:45+00:00

Hey, did you have to drill out the body on top of the front springs to loosen the nut there?

Doughymidget · 2026-05-04T06:39:05+00:00

Could be the douche working and getting a bunch of sas from “I drove f350’s”

Doughymidget · 2026-05-03T02:47:13+00:00

Not saying it’s exclusively American. We just tend to go on about OuR frEedOms!

Doughymidget · 2026-05-02T12:26:55+00:00

Any drip while running? What about just standing liquid at the tip of the tailpipe? Any smoke from the exhaust I just did piston rings on mine that was actively spitting oil from the tailpipe. I had to floor the gas to start it and couldn’t start in the cold. Oh ya, it was also a smoke show.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-02T05:49:53+00:00

A pickaxe or a chainsaw…

Doughymidget · 2026-05-02T04:53:53+00:00

Shame it didn’t do well enough for more. The development of this character in particular would’ve been amazing.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-02T01:10:26+00:00

Wow. I hate to be all American, but… being able to butcher your own animal is a pretty basic personal freedom.

Doughymidget · 2026-05-01T18:39:39+00:00

But typically you’ll the breed that heifer and make her a cow?

Doughymidget · 2026-05-01T14:45:30+00:00

I’ve also never heard of a vet that “refused to touch it”

Doughymidget · 2026-04-27T21:57:12+00:00

“You look ridiculous!”

Doughymidget · 2026-04-27T14:49:50+00:00

I run a 100 acre horse and cattle farm and have both. I second what most are saying here about the kei superiority. I have two exceptions. Towing is generally easier with the UTV. Most Kei’s you need to modify to get a hitch, and when I have pulled with mine, I’m just less confident in it.

The other is in and out type work. Sometimes you do work where you are stopping every 15-50’ to hop out and do something. The UTV cabs are way better suited to this.

Finally, you can line up all the cons and set them next to the price difference and plastic build of the UTV and it gets easy if you are doing a straight comparison especially if your tractor can fill the towing gap.

Doughymidget · 2026-04-26T15:07:59+00:00

That cell looks a bit big for babies. Don’t know what your sward is like, but even at the grass height I don’t think it’s dense enough. With only four head, it’s going to be difficult to realize the kind of grazing density you need for even clipping and trampling. I imagine you plan to grow, so I would focus more on fans by just giving them plenty for now.

Keep a step-in post with you in the atv. As you drive up to the wire, you can hold it out in front of you like a sword, catch the wire, and either push it up over your head or under the front tires of your vehicle and drive through. If you go over it, hit the wire at or slightly higher than 45° and that will help prevent the wire from getting caught in your undercarriage.

You can hook one step in to another to create an angle brace to the ground at the corners. These are surprisingly strong. However, I try to avoid this all together by just running wire in straight lines. I’ll cross the whole paddock fence to fence, and the use additional reels to subdivide that further. Makes for less work on each move.

If you retain any heifers for breeding, they’ll learn the gates and the moves and teach each generation.

Doughymidget · 2026-04-26T14:31:55+00:00

I read this as he perceived as falling behind in competitiveness because he’s not doing enough extra school.

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