After losing 7 calves this past horrible-awful-bad-and-sad-terrible winter, our beef production and consequently beef income, suffered a major setback. But finally we are seeing an end to our and our customers troubles.
The boys (and a few heifers) are back and growing fast and in September we'll have one big enough to fill up the freezer in our farm store. After that all up and coming T-bones are spoken for (via deposits) up through next June. That's correct... June 2015.
In the meantime we ourselves the beef farmers, ran out of beef a few weeks ago. So I did what we've been telling all our customers, CALL FRANK! Frank is another grass fed beef farmer in Illinois who we have happily sent some of our customers to, as he does not raise pork and refers customers to us.
Turnabout is indeed fair play when you are hankering for some real farm raised, out on pasture beef.
Thus we too had to order a quarter beef from Frank just because I am not personally waiting until September for a good steak.
I'm much too spoiled for that. I refuse to buy supermarket meat and a midlife farmwife cannot live on bacon alone! (But I can eat it three times a day for about a week ) But even waiting until end of June was looking tough so we bought ground beef for ourselves from yet ANOTHER farmer. (Thank you Emma and Kyoshi)
Then in the midst of cleaning out a freezer in our basement aka moving things around looking for an earring I dropped in there, I found 6 pounds of our own ground beef! Eureka!!
Really, that's what it said on the package. We get all our beef processed at the Eureka Locker.
So Keith got our ground beef burgers as a surprise for his Father's Day cookout. Now if I can just get me one of those steak shaped molds to shove Emma's ground beef into, I think we'll be OK until Franks beef is ready.
I always know that i can come to your blog when i want to escape the vegetarians & vegans. LOL Enjoy your mince, steak, bacon, eggs, .........
ReplyDeleteIt's like I always say...Save a cow, eat a vegetarian.
DeleteI was raised on Beef, both cooked and raw. When I was small, Beef was the most available meat, nowadays I suppose that most people eat Chicken. There really is NOTHING to compare to a big lump of Roast Beef on your table.
ReplyDeleteI was raised without much meat. Irish folks who always had money for the fags but not the protein. We also drank lots of powdered milk. So I showed them by marrying a farmer and we eat meat and drink fresh milk every day. I also have only pigs for close friends and I always smell bad. Guess revenge is not that sweet.
DeleteLove a good carnivore! And a great steak .... rare. I have trouble eating steak out .. cuz its some chewy piece of meat with no flavor.
ReplyDeleteCity people have no idea what they are missing with good farm raised beef.
Sing it Miss Eff!
DeleteMmmm...bacon. I cook a pound at a time and dole out the pieces each breakfast for about a week.
ReplyDeleteIf you lived closer, i'd have shared some of my ground beef in the freezer. I think there might be one ribeye steak left. Good job Frank had some to spare.
Megan, NEVER and I repeat NEVER casually offer me a leftover ribeye. I've been known to run over blind old ladies for lesser cuts of beef.
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