Bingo Farms, LLC.

08/21/2026

I have had limited supply but I have 2 steers going in Sept. 10. Sign up here.

03/20/2026

She explains this very well.

12/20/2025

Know anyone who needs the perfect last minute gift? Thanks to my daughter Anna (she made the video), we have a few Christmas Beef and Pork Boxes available. This is a wide assortment of our products. Our best deal yet. Work out a local pickup or for a small fee we will deliver this locally to you or your family member. Message with questions.

https://bingofarms.com/product/the-bingo-christmas-box-beef-and-pork/

12/15/2025

His numbers are low too. You can also add fuel, credit card fees, possible vet bills, line of credit interest, etc.

I know several people who are not raising beef that have for a long time. I think it has to do the price, but I think it’s more than that.

People don’t mean anything mean when they make comments about the price, but it can be very discouraging when the people raising them aren’t putting most of that money (if any) back in their pockets.

“You want HOW much for a ¼ cow?!”

Let’s break it down.

A beef calf right now, at 400 lbs, is running about $4.00/lb.
That’s $1,600 right out of the gate.

Now we feed that calf for roughly a year.
Even at a cheap all-stock feed — $12 per 50-lb bag — and averaging 3 lbs/day, you’re looking at around $300 in feed. But when you’re feeding more, or higher quality feed - keep packing on the cost.

So now we’re at $1,900, assuming:
• it grows on schedule
• doesn’t need extra time
• doesn’t get sick
• nothing goes wrong

But wait… you forgot hay.

Hay math (because cows don’t live on air):
• Avg weight during grow-out: ~800 lbs
• Intake: 2.5% of body weight
• That’s ~20 lbs of dry matter/day
• With hay at ~90% dry matter → ~22 lbs as-fed
• About half the diet as hay → ~11 lbs/day
• Over 365 days = ~4,000 lbs of hay

That’s roughly 3–5 round bales, depending on size and waste.
At $40 per bale, add another $120–$200.

So now we’re well over $2,000 — and we haven’t even talked about the butcher.

Processing isn’t cheap either:
• $1.75 per hanging pound
• Plus a dispatch/kill fee

And finally — let’s be real —
Farmers aren’t doing this for fun or boredom.
This is labor, land, feed, time, equipment, and risk.
We have families to feed too.

So when you see the price for a ¼, ½, or whole cow, maybe skip the snide remarks.

👉 You’re getting:
• A freezer full of beef
• Raised with care
• No mystery meat
• No supply chain games
• And you know exactly where it came from

That peace of mind?
It has value.

12/01/2025

Cyber Week Sale: We are clearancing all of our tallow to make new batches. Plus we have our snack sticks for sale. We will gladly work out a local pickup. Since the weather got cold, we can ship our tallow! View our full shop here.

11/28/2025

Nothing like Bingo pork sausage and Bingo eggs on homemade sourdough.
Black Friday isn’t so bad on the homestead!

10/18/2025

We are set up at the fairgrounds 9-noon. Just a little further down than usual at the Chapel. Come see us.

10/18/2025

We happily return to the indoor market this Saturday 9-12. Reminder you’ll have to drive 100 yards further to get to The Chapel Building. Jerky and/or snack sticks samples provided.