Beef Prices Too High? Before You Buy Half a Cow, Watch This (You Pay for 400 lb, Get 260)

A half a beef can run you two thousand dollars in one payment. With beef at record prices in the store, a lot of families are doing the math and buying a half or a quarter straight from a farmer. It can save real money. And the first surprise is that you do not get half a cow. You get boxes, they arrive at once, and a good part of what is in them is not steak. I am Earl. Thirty one years behind the meat counter in three different stores. I filled out cut sheets, I wrapped sides of beef, and I watched people open their boxes and go quiet. Twelve things to know before you put money down, counting down. The weight you pay for, and the much smaller weight that goes in your freezer. Why there are two bills and people only budget for the first. Why close to half of what you take home comes back as ground beef, and why that is not anybody cheating you. How many steaks are actually in a side. What the stamp on the paper means when it says not for sale. Why the freezer has to exist before the beef does. Number one is a single sheet of paper. It decides more about those two thousand dollars than the farm, the breed or the price per pound, and most people let somebody else fill it in. If you have not seen the video about the last five minutes on the cutting board, watch that one next. That was about the one steak on your plate. This one is about the whole animal behind it. Nobody paid me for this. There is nothing here to buy. I do not work for any farm, store or processor. Your homework costs nothing. Open your freezer tonight and count what is in there: ground beef, steaks, roasts. Tell me your three numbers, and I will tell you what I would have written on your cut sheet. I read every one. --- About this channel: this is a fully owned and operated media property. All scripts are written and researched by our team, all voiceover and visuals are produced in house, and every video is edited by hand. We are not an aggregator and we do not republish other people's work.