Meat Weight

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Does anybody here know about how many pounds of frozen meat you could expect from a 1200 lb steer? That is final weight that goes into the freezer.

We have an opportunity to buy some nice grass fed beef, but we don't know if we want a half or a quarter. It will depend on the amount of meat that we will actually get.

-- Bob in WI (bjwick@hotmail.com), October 15, 2002

Answers

Bob, you should get about 250 to 300 pounds of meat from a half.

-- Earthmama (earthmama48@yahoo.com), October 16, 2002.

Yup. :-)

I was just researching this the other day. Obviously there are many factors involved. But seems that dressing percentage generally runs 50-60%, 60 being high.

Here is one site explaining...but you can just do a search; Beef Cattle dressing percentages

http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/reader/5477#Guide

How much are you paying carcass weight per pound if you don't mind me asking?

-- Patty (SycamoreHollow1@aol.com), October 16, 2002.


We are supposed to be paying $1.60/lb, hanging weight. This includes all processing and freezing of the meat.

Everywhere I look I get different numbers for how much beef to expect from a hanging carcass. It is really frustrating to us. I guess what I need is the percentage of weight, that will go into my freezer, from a beef cow.

There are many variables as to what the percentage will be, but I just want to be sure before we will buy a side of beef and then find out it is a lot more than we could have gotten it for somewhere else.

Thanks for the input. I appreciate it very much.

-- Bob in WI (bjwick@hotmail.com), October 16, 2002.


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