Half A Cow

Half a cow was delivered to the Francisco's at Francisco Farm.  They ordered half a cow from a local farmer that sells the cow at a "on the hoof" price per pound.  They got to choose what cuts of meat they wanted and how much of each.  The "on the hoof" price was $2.79 a pound and they ended up getting 235 pounds.  Of course "on the hoof" means half the cow, bones, fat, etc.  Once the cow is butchered the price and poundage of meat changes.  After butchering they received 163.22 pounds of meat which makes the price $4.02 a pound.  Which, compared with prices of beef in the store is not bad.  From the half cow they ended up with the following meat cuts: 67 lbs of ground beef, 15.5 lbs beef ribs, 3.5 lbs beef sirloin tip roast, 2.6 lbs beef arm roast, 3.5 lbs rump roast, 20.5 lbs chuck roasts,7 lbs sirloin steaks, 6.5 lbs T-bones, 6 lbs of porterhouse, 6 lbs of ribeyes, 16 lbs of stew meat, plus liver, soup bones and marrow bones.  They total price paid for the half cow was $655 and the total cost if they had purchase all of this meat at the store would have been $950 plus tax saving them over $360.  I guess we will be ordering some meat when we get back to the farm!