Half Beef Deposit

Have a freezer you are ready to fill?

Purchasing a half beef is hands down the #1 way to keep your family well fed, with maximum variety and maximum value.  

Customize the butchering instructions to best suit your household:  do you like your steaks thick or thin?  More roasts or more ground?  Want to keep the bones and organs?  (New to this? Don't worry.  I'll help.)

This non refundable deposit is applied to the final cost of your beef, a grass fed, grass finished beef raised by Heritage Trail Farms in Prosperity, PA.

How does it work?
> Pay your deposit.  Your card will not be charged until Karis has confirmed your processing date.
> Decide your cut sheet.  This is pretty straightforward (and fun!) and we can help.
> Two and a half to three weeks after your processing date, pay your balance (cash or check) and pick up your beef at the farm (or opt to drive to the processor yourself)

Final half beef cost is $7.25/lb hanging weight. This includes. your basic processing charge, delivery of the live animal to processor and transport of meat back to our farm for pick up.  Value added cuts (burger patties, chip steak) have a small additional fee of $1/lb.

Hanging weight is the hot carcass weight of the animal after skin, organs, etc are removed.  Hanging weight is greater than the actual cut "packaged weight" you take home, due primarily to loss of water, bone and gristle. 

Expect hanging weight of a half beef to be around 250-350 lbs. (Average total cost $1800-2600)
Bone out averages 55%, yielding take home cuts around 135-195 pounds.  Actual cut weight depends on the individual animal as well as the types of cuts you choose (bone in weigh more than boneless, but it's the same amount of meat, e.g.). [Want beef without the customization or the unknown total cost/total weight?  Check out our 1/2 beef, 1/8 beef or 1/4 beef bundles.] 

Remaining balance is due as cash or check at time of pick up.  (Credit card payment of balance is available for 3% additional charge.)  Beef typically needs to be picked up at the farm the same day we get it from the butcher--usually three weeks after the processing date.

Questions? don't hesitate to contact us at theoldroadfarm@gmail.com or by call/text to 724-250-8750