Food prices June 2021

[Mini Horses]

Milk has been "stabled" due to govt price controls. The farmers are dying with cost of feed increasing way beyond what their piddly buy of raw milk does

Yeah butters, cheeses, etc up. Meats gonna get worse.

Now, we're getting grains with chems not allowed in USA (imagine that ) which cause fertility issues in animals! So, people? And we can't even tell. Contents do not list treatments before the packaging. We are being fed poisons.

 

[murphysranch]

I used to LOVE LOVE boneless or even bone on Country Style Pork Ribs. I would simmer them for an hour, then separate out the fat, then grill with BBQ sauce to reheat.

Now I can't afford them.

 

[Mini Horses]

I keep looking at piglets hate the thought of them again and I have the space, sheds, fence; just another to feed & care for. BUT was some of best pork ever!!! And lard. Yeah, I keep looking, thinking...I'll cave eventually!. My butcher closed shop, so that's a slow down for me. Need to find another processor.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I keep looking at piglets hate the thought of them again and I have the space, sheds, fence; just another to feed & care for. BUT was some of best pork ever!!! And lard. Yeah, I keep looking, thinking...I'll cave eventually!. My butcher closed shop, so that's a slow down for me. Need to find another processor.

Me too - but I haven't jumped yet, lol. I don't have a problem processing them myself if I do it while they're at a reasonable size. I prefer NOT to do a 300 pounder by myself, but I can do one at around 100 lbs fairly easily. Less pork, yes - but less feed into them too. If I bought feeders I'd grow them out - but when you've got the factory it's pretty easy to justify doing them at a smaller weight.

 

[Mini Horses]

Those AGHs sure are tasty!!

 

[baymule]

Me too - but I haven't jumped yet, lol. I don't have a problem processing them myself if I do it while they're at a reasonable size. I prefer NOT to do a 300 pounder by myself, but I can do one at around 100 lbs fairly easily. Less pork, yes - but less feed into them too. If I bought feeders I'd grow them out - but when you've got the factory it's pretty easy to justify doing them at a smaller weight.

Didn’t you sell the factory?
Thinking about buying back in?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Didn’t you sell the factory?

I did! I'd have to start over. I swear it's not in the plan at the moment, but I catch myself watching Craigslist all the time, lol. It won't happen until I do some reconfiguring of pens around here. Or, I could let 'em have run of the pasture and pond, hmmmmm.

 

[murphysranch]

So tempting, but the butcher cost is high, as is the ranch kill cost.

 

[Mini Horses]

And it's a JOB to do!

My processor would do "kill & chill" at $40. I'd go back & get gutted, scraped hog; hanging in cold room. I did have them remov head & halve down backbone to make easier to handle, plus fit in containers. Took home on ice and cut/vac packed it. Still a job. Sharp knives & saw needed.

That made it doable for me. cleaner job too

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Sharp knives & saw needed.

Sawzall is your friend!!

I'd go back & get gutted, scraped hog; hanging in cold room.

That's really a great deal. I didn't realize you were getting them scraped. We just skin 'em. I would love to have a scraped one - but no way I'm going to deal with that myself, lol!

I can have one skinned, gutted and sectioned out in about an hour. It's the cutting and wrapping that takes so long! I store my hogs in an ice chest for several days after cutting so I can take a little time cutting it up.

It's doable - even for a woman with a few years under my belt, lol!