Facts & Prices

How are weights are determined: A steer with a “live weight” of 1000 pounds walking onto the stock trailer is taken to the locker. Once the steer is processed the “hanging weight” or “carcass weight” of the animal, which is approximately 60% of the total live weight is left. Slezak Natural Beef charges by the pound based on this hanging weight. Assuming a hanging weight charge of $3.35 /lb for about 600 pounds hanging weight, a whole animal would cost $2910. Taking only a quarter (or a “half-side”), the total you pay $3.59/# for total of $525. Butchering charges, cutting and wrapping are included. The quarter of 150# hanging weight equates to 80 to 90 pounds of wrapped and frozen meat (there is some loss in weight at the butcher for de-boning and removing fat) you are paying between $6 and $7/lb. This price is significantly less than than retail prices for hormone free, grass fed, lean, healthy and delicious cuts of beef.

While 80 pounds sounds like a lot of beef, a rule of thumb is 1 cubic foot of space for each 35-40# of cut and wrapped meat. Using numbers from the Beef Checkoff website, in 2009 each person eats just over 1# of beef per week (58.4#/year). For a family of 4 that’s 4.49# per week. So an 85# quarter of beef would be eaten in 17.3 weeks.

Price 14 various steaks, 4 roasts average of 3 pounds each, a brisket and 49# lean ground beef. That’s the average cuts in one quarter beef. Then give us a call.

Recent numbers
When Live Wt Hanging Wt Packaged Wt Sold
June 2013 900 540 420
July 2013 960 576 448 1/4 to Santa Fe, NM
1/4 to Sierra Vista, AZ
January 2014 940 506 438 4 families 1 family 90% whole beef in Tucson, AZ; rest we ate
March 2015  2 QTRs – 2 families Albuquerque, NM; 1 QTR Tucson, AZ; 1 QTR (all fit in 7 cu freezer and Coleman cooler for transport)
August 2015 1220 500  2 QTRs local; 1 QTR family; 1 QTR Tucson, AZ; 1 QTR Rio Rico, AZ
November 2015 593 (see cut list)  1 QTR Tucson, AZ; 3 QTRs available
Technically we sell you a live animal and arrange it to be butchered at the locker we use and delivered frozen to you. Or we may be able to transport the live animal to a locker near you, prices may vary.
Special cuts or vacuum packaging may also be available at varying costs, depending on the locker’s cost.
Please email info at slezaknaturalbeef.com or call 402-366-4267 to inquire on timing as there is not always an animal ready to butcher.
 
 
Cut list SAMPLE DIVISION
Cut # Pkgs 11/2015 A QTR B QTR C QTR D QTR
Ribeye Steak 12 3 3 3 3
T-bone Steak 7 2 2 2 1
Fillet Steak 6 2 1 1 2
Sirloin Steak 20 5 5 5 5
Sirloin Tip Stk 2 1 1
Round Steak 2 1 1
Porterhouse Stk 5 1 1 2 1
Flank/Fajita 4 1 1 1 1
Rump Roast 2 1 1
Chuck Roast 9 2 2 2 3
Arm Roast 7 2 2 2 1
Stew meat 2 1 1
Brisket 4 1 1 1 1
Hamburger 1# 98 25 24 24 25
Hamburger 1.5# 66 16 17 17 16
 
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