How much time from when an order is placed does it take for a side of pork or beef to be ready
for pickup?
When we get your deposit
we'll put you in the schedule for our next available processing date, typically we take animals to the butcher about once
a month. After they are butchered it takes 2 -3 weeks for the meat to be ready for pick up at the farm. We
can give you a more precise date when you put in a deposit.
How big is a side of pork?
We sell sides of pork by the whole (approximately 200 lbs) and half (approximately 100 lbs).
This is the hanging weight of the animals. You'll take home about 80% of this weight after the meat is cut.
What cuts can
I expect in a side of pork?
Following is a list of possible cuts from
a whole pig. Following each cut is the number of packages and their approximate size. You will work with
the butcher to customize your cutting order.
What is Milk & Meadow ™
Beef?
Our Milk & Meadow Beef eat just what their name describes
- milk and grass. Black Angus
beef is known for its superior taste and high quality. Our calves stay with their mothers and continue to drink milk; along
with grazing on fresh pasture. This produces lean, delicately flavored, tender, grass fed beef.
This special beef is available only in the late fall of the year. We
are taking reservations for 2010!
How big is an average Milk & Meadow™
beef?
500 lbs is the average approximate hanging weight of a whole
Milk & Meadow beef. You will take home approximately 75% of the hanging weight after the meat has been butchered
to your specifications.
You can see the cutting list
below for an Angus beef.
M&M will have similar cuts,
with proprotionally smaller amounts and sizes.
What is Angus Beef ?
The
Angus beef is a high quality corn finished beef. Black Angus cattle are well known for their superior taste and tenderness.
Ours are raised in a way that harks back to the practices that Midwestern farmers have been using for a long time (150 years
or so); vastly different from industrial feedlots. Beef are grazed until calves are weaned & separated
from their mothers.
The calves are then fed the highest quality
hay and this supplemented with grains. By supplementing grain, the calves continue to grow at the rapid rate that they had
been with the milk from their mothers. THese growing practices help ensure the remarkably tasty beef our customers expect.
How big is an average Angus beef?
700 lbs is the average approximate hanging weight of a whole beef. You will take home between 55%
and 70% of the hanging weight after the meat has been butchered to your specifications. The more variety of cuts
you take and the less trimming you have done (i.e. T-bone steaks rather than filet & NY strip) the higher your percentage
will be.
We offer
wholes, halves (approx. 350 lbs) and mixed quarters (approx. 175 lbs)
