Don Wirth Beef - 100% grass fed, grass finished.

Don Wirth’s beef has been selected by Brenda Ruble and Barry and Lauri Tauscher to be the most nutrient dense, delicious beef we could find.

The beef comes from Brenda's uncle's farm outside of Shedd, Oregon (Don Wirth). He's a very progressive farmer and grass seed, not beef, is his business. Even in the winter months his pastures are absolutely beautiful. His philosophy is if you grow great soil, everything else will follow suit.

Don's animals are 100% grass-fed - no graining whatsoever. He does not use antibiotics or chemical wormers on his beef.

Price and Ordering Information

PRIME Beef

$5.35/lb HANG WEIGHT + $45 /quarter transportation.

This price includes all the butchering costs, cutting, wrapping, kill fee, everything. This is a combination of approximately 40% burger and 60% various cuts (steaks, roasts, ribs, liver, stew meat, other). This is a “normal” breakdown of a “normal” quarter, the percentages are approximate.

The “prime” beef is available in quarters only. If you want less than a quarter, find someone to split it with. If you want more than a quarter - specify how many quarters you want. Hang weight is the weight of the animal (the WHOLE animal, head, hooves and all) when it is "hung" up by a chain attached to a scale after it has been dispatched. So for a quarter of a 600lb beef:

150lb X $5.35/lb + $45 = $848

The finished weight is ~30% less than the hang weight for a PRIME animal, so you will end up with about 105lb of meat (because the finished weight only includes the packaged meat, not the head, hooves and all).

So the finished cost is approximately $8.00/lb (approximately means within 25%).

Order by:

1) Number of Quarters you want

2) Specify the Cutting instructions:

a. OPTION 1 PRIME with cube steak (Cube steak: It is like round steak or chicken fried steak. It is a tough cut of steak that the butcher runs through a tenderizer. It is great fried, and then use the drippings to make gravy with raw cream – amazing.). The animal is butchered into a "standard" variety of cuts - approximately 40% of the animal is burger and 60% of the animal is a variety of roasts, steaks, ribs, stew meat, soup bones, liver, etc.. The tongue and heart are ground into the burger. The burger is 15-20% fat as the fat is where the “gold” is, the Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA), Vitamins A and D.

b. OPTION 2 PRIME without cube steak. Same as option 1 above except the meat that would be put into cube steak as in option 1 is put into the burger instead.Remember, a larger animal will weigh more and a smaller animal will weigh less. I never know the exact sizes of the animals, but in the past they have ranged from 350-900lb each. Typical weight is 600lb for one animal. Again, I cannot tell you in advance exactly how big each animal is going to be.

Freezer Space: A quarter of a 600lb animal takes up one shelf of a large upright freezer. Think of a two pound package of hamburger and there are 50 of those.

ALL BURGER Beef

$9.35/lb FINISHED WEIGHT

This price includes all the butchering costs, cutting, wrapping, kill fee, everything. Note: An all burger animal means all the steak and roast meat goes into the burger - this is like ground sirloin+ burger kind of burger - really good!

Our burger is 15-20% fat (the fat is the “gold” nutritionally speaking , containing the CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid), Vitamins A and D).

Order by:

1) Number of Boxes you want

a. 1 box is approximately 48lb. We will weigh the boxes and you pay based on the weight, $9.35/lb.

b. Specify if you want 1lb pkgs or 2lb pkgs

2) Number of Packages you want

a. Specify if you want 1lb pkgs or 2lb pkgs

BONES:

$60/40lb box (this is a great deal at $.60/lb compare to $2-$3/lb at the store or from Azure). The bones are just a hodge-podge of big bones, little bones, knuckle bones, rib bones, leg bones.

If you order ONLY bones, we never know for sure how many boxes of bones we are going to get. We only take orders for as many boxes as we should get with the number of animals butchered, but occasionally the butcher throws away our bones when he runs out of freezer space…….So we never really know until the meat gets here how many boxes of bones we ACTUALLY have.

Beef Fat:

$60/40lb box

Transportation cost: These fees are to cover the cost of the truck to bring the meat to Portland.