Grass Fed Beef
4-6 Month wait time as of Oct 8, 2025
Order your whole or half of a grass-fed Angus beef today!
Whole or Half Grass-Fed Angus Beef
$3.59 per lb. live weight, includes beef & basic custom processing
Quick facts you should know about our Angus grass-fed beef:
- Black Angus
- Non GMO, steroid free, hormone free
- Grass Fed right here on our farm
- Normally, our grass-fed beef yield 40% of live weight as take home weight (more bone in = more take home weight). …so approximately 260 lbs. for half beef, or 520 lbs. for whole beef.
- Half-a-beef will cost approximately $2,333.50, whole beef will be double that.
- The final price will be determined by live weight @ $3.59 /lb. (includes basic processing cost) our beef have been ranging 1100-1400 lbs. live weight.
- The down-payment can be done over the phone at time of order. The required deposit is $250 on a half beef, and $500 on a whole beef.
- If you can’t get thru to us on the phone (because we are assisting other customers) try texting us at (606) 722-0211
- At this point we DO NOT SHIP beef. You will need to pick up your beef at our butcher-shop.
Consider our cheaper “Grass-FINISHED” beef options @ $3.44 per LB. Click here to learn more.
Now selling 1/4 Grass-Fed Beef Shares
Normally, a quarter of a grass fed beef will yield approximately the following:
8 roasts (chuck, arm, sirloin tip, or rump roasts)
4 short-rib portions
half of a beef brisket
8 rib-eye steaks @ ¾”
6 T-Bones @ ¾”
4 sirloin steaks @ ¾”
4 packs of cube steaks @ 4 per pack
approx. 60 lbs. of burger
1/4 grass-fed beef shares may range between 125-145 lbs. take home weight.
Final price will be $8.73 per lb. finished weight.
Average total cost per 1/4 beef should be around $1,191.65
Keep an eye here… we may have an 1/8th of a beef option coming soon.
The Healthy Option
Improving your nutrition and healing your body is more than just watching what you eat.
We also must consider what we eat has eaten! To keep costs low and meat production
speedy, cows, pigs, and poultry are often fed ingredients that their bodies were never
meant to ingest. The animals’ poor health is passed on to us, in the form of extremely
high Omega 6 fats and extremely low Omega 3 fats, known as the 6:3 ratio. Maintaining
a ratio of 4:1 or lower is crucial for reversing chronic conditions like heart disease, high
blood pressure, autoimmune, ADHD, arthritis, asthma, autism, diabetes, lupus,
Alzheimer’s, and Crohn’s.
Grass fed, pasture-raised meats provide a much lower 6:3 ratio than grocery store
meats. Showalter’s Omega 3 beef shows a ratio of 1.1 to 1 in independent lab tests
(grocery store beef averages 20:1). Thankfully, achieving maximum health doesn’t
require a vegetarian lifestyle! Meats provide the fats and proteins needed for optimal
health and cellular healing. But maintaining the right balance of fats is key.
And there’s more good news! Grass fed meats cooked at lower temperatures for a bit
longer are just as tender and juicy as any thick, restaurant steak!
Our grass fed beef will tend to be more lean than some of the marbled meat you see in grain fed animals. Nonetheless, if healthy and lean is what you are looking for, then our grass fed beef is just the thing.
Feeding Program
We grass-feed & grass finish our Angus beef right here on the Showalter Family Farm. Furthermore, we do not use synthetic fertilizer on our pastures, instead we enrich the soil with our own homemade compost. As you know, compost-fertilized-pastures produce luscious healthy grass. That is the grass our Angus beef forage on till their heart’s content. Obviously, this is the same grass that we bale as hay to feed our cows through the winter months.
Humane Handling
During the summer, our Angus beef enjoy free access to all the grass they want to eat on our fields. With rotational grazing, they are regularly moved to fresh parts of the pasture. On the other hand, during the winter months we feed them hay we have baled from our fields. Additionally, we harvest our grass-fed beef right in the field or barn so there is no stress they encounter by being hauled to a processing facility.
How much take home meat?
Of Course, no two beef are exactly alike. However, to give you an idea of what to expect let me share the numbers from the grass-fed beef order pictured below done in April of 2023. This particular beef weighed 1245 lbs. live weight. Meanwhile, the hanging weight was 713 lbs. Including the 15 lbs. of soup bones, the total take home weight ending up being 549.85 lbs.
In this case, the take home weight was a whopping 44% of the live weight because of the added 15 lbs. of soup bones. Of course, not every one wants their bones, so the take home weight will vary.
In order to not be disappointed, we suggest that you expect a 40% take home yield from our grass-fed Angus beef. In this case, if you opt for lots of bone-in cuts and take home even more weight, then you will be pleasantly surprised.
How to order:
Thankfully, ordering one of our beef is not complicated.
- Firstly, give us a call @ 606 787 7070, or better yet, drop in and see us at our butcher-shop right here on the farm.
- Secondly, pay the required deposit
- Then, patiently wait for your beef to get to harvest weight
Order Details
When you place your order, we will go over a cut sheet with you and talk about the various options for each part of your beef. To illustrate, look at the picture below to get an idea of standard cuts.
Click here to see our blank Beef Cut Sheet
Or click here to see an EXAMPLE BEEF CUT SHEET already filled out.
Roast Options
First, we will walk you through your different roast options such as if you want arm roasts, rump roasts, chuck roasts, or sirloin tip roasts. Obviously, whatever you don’t as a roast can simply be ground into burger.
Brisket & Short Rib Options
You can also opt for whole brisket, brisket cut in half, or brisket ground into burger. Then we can talk about whether you want short ribs or whether you would rather have us put those into your burger.
Primary Steak Options
Second, we talk about steaks; would you like rib-eye steaks, Sirloin steaks, & T-bone Steaks? If you prefer boneless, the T-bone can be done as New York strips & Filet mignon.
Other Steak Options
More steak options are available from the hind quarter, such as cube steaks (same as minute steaks), round steaks, flank steaks, and skirt steaks.
Burger Options
Remember that whatever you do not want in steaks or roasts will go into augmenting your burger amount. We normally package your burger in 1 lb. bags (actual weight is closer to 1.2 lbs.).
Special Requests
You can also request to keep the heart, liver, ox-tail, or tongue if that is something you would like.
If you would like some of your burger done into quarter pound patties, we vacuum pack them with four per pack. NOTE: Patties will cost extra, $1 per lb. with a 30 lb. minimum.
Packaging:
We vacuum pack and label the roasts and steaks, but the burger is simply put in burger tubes.
Limited Availability
Keep in mind that our grass fed beef are subject to availability, since we finish them naturally, without hormones and antibiotics, they are not always going to be the perfect size yet, so we may have to put you on the list till yours becomes available. Also keep in mind that when ordering a half-a-beef, we will wait to harvest it until both halves are sold. Whether you’re looking for an entire cow or just a half, we’re here to do our best to give you what you’re looking for!
