Beef Cattle currently cost $2000’ish for a calf at 500lbs. You have to feed it 25 lbs of hay per day for 30 months when it is ready to harvest. That’s (9,100 lbs / 900 lbs per bale, for 30 months) 304 bales total at a cost of $1,700. NO OTHER costs, I’m into the cow for $3,700 at 1400lbs full grown. I gross approx 450 lbs of meat. Thats $8.23 cents a pound., in the box.
In this equation there are:
No slaughter costs
No operating costs
No vet/transport costs
No land/property taxes/insurances
No upkeep
No diesel
No seed for the fields
No fencing
No labor, no profit for us working 365 days a year. (Yes, cows eat on holidays)
Nothing!!
For sake of argument, let’s say all these above costs are offset by selling my “premium cuts”, (which isn’t even close….BUT….lets just say for this exercise, it did.
$8.22 a pound.
Now: Please tell me how ground beef I can buy for $7-8 in the store with that retail store making a profit? They have to keep their doors open to. Let’s call it a 25% profit margin (and that’s LOW). That’s them buying ground at $5/$6.
I’ll let y’all form your own conclusions about how this is done. You CUT corners. Period, end of story. Ain’t no other way round it. Next time you buy beef, remember this very basic math and ask yourself what exactly you are putting in your body for $7-8 bucks.
Do yourself a favor and establish a relationship with your local rancher/farmer that you KNOW doesn’t cut corners AND works their brains out 365 days a year just trying to do the right thing to better their community. 🙏🥩🇺🇸
Constant chatter about UW Oshkosh this weekend. Sounds like the boys are ready, motivated & feel like they have something to prove this year. Cant wait.
How will Michael Malone balance high school recruiting with the Transfer Portal?
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Coach Malone on pitching NBA potential to recruits:
“A lot of coaches are gonna tell recruits ‘I can help you make it to the NBA, I know what it takes to be successful in the NBA.’ Well guess what? I can do more than just talk about it. I’ve done it, I’ve walked that walk.
BREAKING: The Windy City Bulls are hiring Quincy Pondexter as their next head coach, per multiple sources. Pondexter joins the Bulls after serving as an assistant since 2021, with stops at USC and Washington. Pondexter played nine seasons in the NBA, most notably with Memphis.
Only 3 guys are in the 20k-7k-7k Club for career points/rebounds/assists: LeBron, Oscar and Russ.
If you drop it to 20k-6k-6k it’s those 3 plus CP3, Harden, Havlicek, Drexler and Kobe.
But….
LeBron is at 43k-12k-12k.
So technically, he’s in the 20k-6k-6k Club twice.
ICYMI: @RobDauster on Seth Trimble committing to Louisville
“In mid-August, we have a guy who should be a Tar Heel forever going to play for a conference rival that might beat them this year and might win the ACC… That sucks. That takes away a lot of what college basketball and college sports should be about.”
🎥: https://t.co/cXzrmDAU6G
I’ll be honest: This kinda sucks.
I get it. If there’s no room at UNC, and a new coach, it’s a business after all. But Seth made himself a UNC legend by staying, improving, the shot against Duke, all of it.
And he’s going to end his career wearing Louisville colors.
MASSIVE pickup for the Cards, though. Enormous.
Marvin Harrison Jr. and Michael Wilson will compete for the No. 1 WR role at training camp, per @joshweinfuss
"Because of TE Trey McBride, whoever ends up as WR2 could be the third receiving option, and the third option doesn't tend to get their fair share of passes."
another championship.
I believe I can help make the Philadelphia 76ers a championship team and I am so excited to energize a new fan base and start this incredible journey one last time.
Thank you LA. Miami I’ll forever love and Northeast Ohio will always home!
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