The 25 head or so I finish every year are sold directly to customers by the half or whole based on the live weight. I charge near the top of the price range reported by the nearby auction. The advantage to me is no commission or shrinkage as the cattle are loaded from the feed lot and weighed at the local fertilizer dealer almost immediately. I don't charge hauling as I'd have to haul them to the auction anyway but I only haul when I have 3-4 sold. The customer pays all butchering costs and picks up their own meat. For hogs I charge $180 per head as it's too much trouble to weight and mark individual hogs and I can't raise hogs for market price. Again the customer pays the processing. By my rough calculations hogs need to be $.75 per pound and cattle need to be $1.20 to make any money with feed costs. In the near future one of three things needs to happen:, 1) the cattle market goes up, 2) my customers are going to have to pay above market price, or 3) I'm going to scale back my cattle production. If I was just starting in the business with new customers I'd figure my costs, set a price I could live with and offer it to customers, take it or leave it. You'll be selling a better product that should be priced higher than the super markets.
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