All photography is taken on the farm and our animals.
Our animals are Start to finish 100% GRASSFED - Zero Grain EVER
Healthy - Nutrient Dense - Sustainable
Always Delicious
Our beef herd is a mix of mostly hereford with a little belted galloway mixed in from a bull we had many years ago but our current bull is pure hereford. They are entirely grassfed from start to finish. We NEVER give them grain of any sort, no corn, no wheat, no oats, no barley and no fermented feeds either (like silage or baleag). They graze on our carefully planned and managed pastures from May til November and never come into a barn until winter. We make all of our own hay for their winter feed. The herd always has free choice of organic minerals. We built a barn a few years ago from our own timber where the cows go in the winter. They have a large outside area where they are fed hay and in the barn a deep bedding pack of wood chips that eventually will be composted down and applied to our fields. They are only at the barn in the winter, once we start grazing in May they are always on pasture somewhere on the farm.
Our pastures have been pesticide and herbicide free for the 14 years we have been here. We make all our own fertility from compost and never have used no lime or artifiicial fertilizers.
We started grazing beef at our old farm in Lafayette (26 years ago!) when we were a young family raising alot of our own food from our homestead. We slowly grew the homestead into a farm business and learned along the way how to improve our herd, how to manage their grazing so that the land and grass keeps growing, improving and is highly productive- nautrally.
Most of our mom cows have been born on the farm, all the offspring that become beef are born and raised by their mother right here on our pastures. Our purebred hereford bull, Copper is also grazing here on the farm. If you come by the farm you won’t always see the herd as the move all over the farm as we move them twice a day to new grass and let the grazed areas rest a month or two.
We have never used hormones ever. We may use an antibiotic or similar treatment if needed for a sick or injured animal but that has been very rare to happen. We will not hesistate to immunize our herd if needed to prevent disease or illness.
Our prices reflect the absolute true cost of us raising the animals for over 2 years, caring for their mothers for years and years, paying for the farm itself, for us to make a fair living and all the expenses of that. We know there is cheaper priced meat out there but we don’t strive for cheap, we strive for a fair living for us as we raise delicious, nutrtious meat from our well cared for animals.
Our beef go to Kelley meats in Taberg NY to be processed under USDA inspection. Our beef is dry aged for 7-10 days simply because it does not need any longer like the grain fed does.
Butcher fees in 2024 were 90 cents a pound plus $150 for rendering/slaugher per whole animals and additional fees for things like shaved, cubed, burger patties and extra deboning.
We pickup orders at Kelley Meats, box and label it with your name, bring back to the farm for. you to pickup the same day. For 2025 all beef pickups are Wednesdays after 5pm. If you cannoot pickup at the farm on the designated Wednesday you can also pickup you order at Kelley’s. You supply boxes or coolers, pay their processing bill at pickup and will need to settle up with us prior to pickup.
We sell almost all our beef as wholesale Wholes, Halves and Quarters (split half) and a new 20 pound box of mixed cuts ( we no longer offer a 1/8 beef).
Our whole beef on average weigh in around 500-600 pound hanging weigh with a few over 600 pounds.
Our Regular pricing is when you pay with credit or debit card.
Cash/Check Discount Price is when you pay with cash or check.
Our Prices are based on the hanging weight. Yields of meat in your freezer are usually around 60% of the hanging weight, organs and bones are not included in that 60%. We use Kelley meats a USDA inspected processor in Taberg NY.
Meat comes flash frozen, vacuum packed and labelled.
BUTHCHER DATES & PICKUP.
All butcher dates are in October with pickups on Wednesdays 4:30-6:30 at the farm. When you order we will let you know your pickup date, we are not able to hold orders for later pickup but you can pickup at the butcher- ask about the details and discount.
1 quarter available for Oct. 21st pickup- Sorry sold out
2 halves availlable for Nov. 4th pickup- Sorry Sold out
We will have some ground beef available in June and more in early December- Whole cow ground beef- all steaks, roasts, all cuts are ground.
WHOLE:
Hanging weight estimate is 500-600 pounds (some could be a little smaller or larger)
Discount Price: $6.20/pound by the hanging with plus processing
Regular Price: $6.39/pound by the hanging weight plus processing
This is custom cut to your order. Butcher fees often range from $650-$800- this varies by weight of animal and how you have it cut.
Approximate cost: $3,800-$4,900 with the butcher fees. This is ONLY an estimate based on previous year animal weights and butcher fees. This will vary depending on the hanging weight and how it is cut.
$100 discount to pickup at Kelley meats.
$800 deposit is due at ordering. This is NOT refundable.
HALF:
Hanging weights estimate is 250-300 pounds (some could be smaller or larger)
Discount Price: $6.30/pound by the hanging with plus processing
Regular Price: $6.49/pound by the hanging weight plus processing.
Custom cut to your order. Estimate the butcher fees to be around $350-$400 but depends on the weight of the carcass and how you have it cut.
Approximate total cost $1,900-$2,500 based on last years nubers. But this will vary by the weight of animal and butcher fees.
$50 discount to pickup at Kelley meats.
.$500 deposit is due at ordering and is NOT REFUNDABLE
QUARTER:
This is also called a split half, basically a 1/2 that is divided in half so you get cuts from the rear and front of the animal. It is not custom cut and we use a standard cut order.
$300 deposit due at ordering
Hanging weights are usually 125-150 pounds, but will vary.
Pricing for 1/4 includes the butcher fees. This option is not custom cut, we use a standard cut order.
Discount Price: $7.87 by the hanging weight, includes butcher fees
Regular Price: $8.10 by the hanging weight, includes butcher fees
Approximte cost $995-$1,000 but will vary depending on the weight of the carcass.
Pickup at the farm only.
The standard cut order includes: T-bone & Porterhouse steaks, Rib Steaks, Sirloin and Sirloin Tip steaks, half brisket, rump roast, chuck roasts, london broil, stew cubes, ground beef in 1 pound tubes, meaty soup shanks and bag of bones. Other cuts that might be included: Flank steak, skirt steak, short ribs, eye round roast/steak.
Sometimes we can offer boneless NY strip and tenderloin steaks insteaed of tbones and portehouse steaks- but ask when ordering if you can go boneless.
20 Pound Beef Box
$285 for a mixed box with roasts, steaks, stew meat, ground beef. Limited Availability.
GROUND BEEF
We will have whole cow ground beef available in late June and again in early December.
1o pounds $110
Bones from stock are $2.50 a pound
TO ORDER
Now taking orders for 2026- but we only have a few openings.
BUTCHER FEES as of fall 2024 at Kelley Meats
SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
$25 rendering per whoole
$125 Processing, cut & wrap, Flash Frozen & Labelled (per whole)
Processing Cut & Wrap 90 cents/pound
Burger Patties: 95 cents /pound
shaved/cubed $1.25/pound
Extra deboning $5-10 per piece