Anyone buy beef in bulk?

musgral8

DH and I love our farmers market, and there is a family there that owns a local farm and they sell eggs, chicken, beef, and pork. I've talked to them a lot about their farming practices and it's free-range, grass-fed, and if they have to be supplemented, like the chickens, it's with non-GMO feed. The meat is pretty expensive, but I feel like it's worth it, so we usually buy one or two things each time, and always a carton of eggs. Last time we were there, the grandmother told me that they're 'taking orders for cows' as she put it. lol. H and I have talked about it and think it would be worth it for us to purchase 1/4 cow for the beef, especially since they take orders for how you want the meat split up. They are charging $5.00/lb. So my question is, do you any of you buy beef raised in a similar fashion, and if so, how much is it per pound? I feel like $5.00 is a good buy, but I've never compared. TIA!

hollyfp

Sounds good.  Last year ours was $4.50/lb for a 1/4 - I imagine it could be $5/lb this year.

We split a 1/4 with friends last year and got 45 lbs.  It has lasted us from October until now (we still have 1 roast, 4 burgers, 1pk cubed beef and 2lb ground beef left).  We eat red meat generally 1ce/week.  If you eat it more often you might want to go for the whole 1/4 otherwise maybe split it.

musgral8

Thanks! Seems like the price is pretty on par then. We may need to split it with someone, like you said, because we eat red meat once a week to every other week so it will last us awhile. 

CharlottesWeb

We bought a quarter last fall. It was $600 for 100 lbs (this year it's up to $650). So yeah, $5 sounds like a great deal to me.

 

bubbs147

We just paid for the 1/4 we're splitting with friends, and we paid $5/lb.  So sounds like a fair deal to me!

Mrs Manners

I just paid $5.50 lb (that included delivery and packaging) for a 100% grassfed 1/4 cow. We got 100 lbs of meat.