I harvested a steer for a local farmer today. The quarters came out over 200 lbs each, so decent size, albeit not massive by any means. It was a clean kill and a clean job. My back is sore and my face is smiling.
Congrats dude. What’s next?
I was sick of seeing guys in dresses and warmongering politicians so I’m back on Nostr and off Twitter for the day.
Yes man, The Law by Bastiat another amazing read. My kids are going to read this stuff a decade younger than I was when I found it.
Back in 2020 or maybe 2021 a friend sent me a text saying “why do you think bitcoin is going so high?” And I sent him back a picture of this book next to the creature from Jekyll island.
Hey Slim,
I was riding with a local farmer to a farm kill today. We got a chance to talk about some of these very issues. Where I am, California, it’s a fucking mess to try to source local beef (local anything, but beef is harder imo)
- The beef in the supermarket is from God-knows-where.
- the beef in the specialty butcher shops (which are few and far between) get grass fed and corn fed quarters from the Midwest.
- I knew one butcher shop that managed to get a few quarters from a California farm with USDA slaughter stamp (required for resale). In general, they can’t find it.
- The large landowners in the area do have cattle, but they are sold live. Some of it goes straight to China, I heard. Beef raised on the central coast, grass fed, is fantastic.
That’s why I’m focusing on direct-to-consumer strategies. Individuals can buy whole animals from a local farmer, pay me to harvest it, and a local butcher shop to process it. We need to get more local ranchers on board, and streamline the process.
Hey Slim,
I was riding with a local farmer to a farm kill today. We got a chance to talk about some of these very issues. Where I am, California, it’s a fucking mess to try to source local beef (local anything, but beef is harder imo)
- The beef in the supermarket is from God-knows-where.
- the beef in the specialty butcher shops (which are few and far between) get grass fed and corn fed quarters from the Midwest.
- I knew one butcher shop that managed to get a few quarters from a California farm with USDA slaughter stamp (required for resale). In general, they can’t find it.
- The large landowners in the area do have cattle, but they are sold live. Some of it goes straight to China, I heard. Beef raised on the central coast, grass fed, is fantastic.
That’s why I’m focusing on direct-to-consumer strategies. Individuals can buy whole animals from a local farmer, pay me to harvest it, and a local butcher shop to process it. We need to get more local ranchers on board, and streamline the process.
Hey Slim,
I was riding with a local farmer to a farm kill today. We got a chance to talk about some of these very issues. Where I am, California, it’s a fucking mess to try to source local beef (local anything, but beef is harder imo)
- The beef in the supermarket is from God-knows-where.
- the beef in the specialty butcher shops (which are few and far between) get grass fed and corn fed quarters from the Midwest.
- I knew one butcher shop that managed to get a few quarters from a California farm with USDA slaughter stamp (required for resale). In general, they can’t find it.
- The large landowners in the area do have cattle, but they are sold live. Some of it goes straight to China, I heard. Beef raised on the central coast, grass fed, is fantastic.
That’s why I’m focusing on direct-to-consumer strategies. Individuals can buy whole animals from a local farmer, pay me to harvest it, and a local butcher shop to process it. We need to get more local ranchers on board, and streamline the process.
I had a good day on a farm kill job. The women who run the nearly 1-square-mile farm wanted to dispatch the animal themselves before I arrived.
More typically, the farmer or owner will have me kill the animals. Some like to be there, some don’t. I can respect that some would want to do the kill: they raised the animals and cared for them their whole lives and I think they don’t feel comfortable giving the responsibility to somebody else.
If you commit to taking the shot, you have to follow through with whatever happens from that moment on.
Happy pump day 🙌
I’ll try it out next time I slaughter lambs. Thanks for the tip Saif 👊
Actually nobody has ever asked for it. I don’t think there are any regulations against it here, as for instance there are with lungs, just uncommon. I do save the heads for some customers, so I suppose they could be taking the brains out. But seriously…does it taste good?
Thanks #[1] and #[2]
Am I tripping or did Lyn Alden make like half a bitcoin off one of her posts a couple days ago?
Wow, so I just received my first sat using Nostr tips. And then two more sats. I was already impressed with lightning, and I use it often, but this is next level!
Thought so. I’ve been harvesting a lot of lambs recently. I always save the hearts of course, but I don’t save the brains.
Is that a lamb heart, or just a small chunk of the beef heart?
Could somebody try to zap me a couple sats to test out my lightning tip button? 🙏 🙏