11/10/2025
💡 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 “$𝟓.𝟕𝟓 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭” 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬?
When you buy ranch-direct beef, the price is based on hanging weight — the carcass before it’s cut and wrapped. But your take-home weight is the packaged beef that fills your freezer. Here’s what that actually looks like 👇🏽
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🧮 Example (Average 750 lb hanging weight — every animal varies at harvest)
• Hanging weight price: $5.75/lb
• Processing: $1.25/lb
• Kill fee: $100
➡️ Total cost: $5,350.00
After processing, you typically keep about 60–65% of that hanging weight, depending on how it’s cut (bone-in vs. boneless, grind percentage, etc.).
From 750 lb hanging weight, you’ll take home roughly 465 lb of packaged beef.
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Real Cost:
$5,350 ÷ 465 lb = $11.51/lb take-home
That means your family is enjoying premium, USDA-processed, custom-cut, freezer-ready beef — including ribeyes, T-bones, sirloins, roasts, brisket, and ground beef — for about $11–$12 per pound total.
𝐀𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐌 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐨.
𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦.
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