We proudly pasture raise Registered Red Angus cattle at Red Hill Farms. Our cattle are rotated to fresh pasture multiple times per week during the spring, summer, and fall months. During the summer, we bale our own hay for the winter months. While on pasture during their last couple of months, we offer our feeder steers small amounts of Non-GMO grain to help with marbling.
Why registered Red Angus Beef?
1. Grass Fed– Grass fed beef is higher in antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids and lower in fat and cholesterol. Our grass fed steers are given small amounts of NON GMO grain for 60 days before harvesting to help with marbling while grazing our pastures.
2. Humanely Raised– We feel that our most important job as farmers is animal stewardship. Providing shade trees, not giving free choice grain, and rotational grazing allows our cattle to live healthy, stress free lives. Lower stressed steers produce better tasting beef. Our cattle are not given growth hormones or antibiotics.
3. Genetics– Genetics, we use moderate framed easy fleshing genetics that grow slower but marble well on our pasture based system. Other traits such as calving ease (a prediction of how easy or hard labor and delivery will be), maternal instincts, and feed conversion are very important to farmer’s. There are genetics that our cattle excel in that benefits the consumer such as marbling, grade, and yield percentage. These statistics are important to our customers because they allow for higher quality beef and higher hanging weight yield.
Our Beef Price for the 2024 Season: $3.80/lb. hanging weight
Example of Pounds of Beef to Expect
- Live animal weight = 1,200 pounds *63 percent dressing percentage = 756 pound carcass
- Carcass Yield Grade 3 (average muscling and fat cover) = 70 percent yield when obtaining mostly bone-in cuts and 50 percent yield with all boneless cuts.
- 756 pound carcass * 70 percent ~ 529 pounds of packaged beef, mostly bone-in cuts and ground beef
- 756 pound carcass * 50 percent ~ 378 pounds of packaged boneless, closely trimmed beef and ground beef
Source: Michigan State Extension – 2012: Jeannine P. Schweihofer “How Much to Expect When Buying Freezer Beef: Part One”.
Cut of Meat Price per Pound
Brisket ————————————-$6.00
Ground Beef——————————-$6.00
Ground Burger Patties —————-$6.75 (3 patties per package)
Chuck Roast —————————– $6.00
Delmonico Steak ———————-$17.00 (1 steak per package)
Filet —————————————–$29.00 (1 steak per package)
Flank Steak —————————– $11.00 (1 steak per package)
New York Strip ————————–$15.00 (1 steak per package)
Porterhouse——————————-$15.00 (1 steak per package)
Rib Steak aka Ribeye Steak———–$17.00 (1 steak per package)
Rolled Rib Roast aka Prime Rib –$18.00
Round Roast ————————–$6.00
Round Steak – tenderized (for swiss steak) —$6.00 (1 steak per package)
Short Ribs —————————–$6.00
Skirt Steak ————————– $10.00 (1 steak per package)
Sirloin Steak ————————–$11.00 (1 steak per package)
Sirloin Tip Roast ——————-$9.00
Soup Bones ————————–$2.00
Soup Bones with some Meat—$4.50
Sizzler Steak ————————$7.00 (1 steak per package)
Stew Meat ————————–$6.00
T-Bone Steak ———————–$15.00 (1 steak per package)
Tongue——————————-$2.50
Liver———————————-$2.50
Oxtail———————————$2.50
Heart———————————$2.50