Have been eating my own beef for probably 40 years. One thing, I mostly eat jersey or jersey x beef, occasionally a guernsey or guernsey x. They don't bring much at the yard when you get them up to 4-5 wts ready to wean, and I'll be d #$%^% d if I will give away some of the best flavored beef I have raised. Since I love my dairy cows, and they do one heck of a job raising calves for the most part, when they have bull calves, then it's beef. We also have killed a few angus that have had pinkeye and gone practically blind even after multiple treatments. We have a couple of people who get 1/4 or 1/2 a beef so it works out. I did price what I got one year; weighed out the steaks & what kind; the roasts and ground beef etc. and also found that the ground beef made the steaks practically free compared to if I had bought it at the store. Plus, I TOTALLY AGREE, I want to know where my beef comes from, what it ate etc.... And it sure is alot easier to just go get a steak, than to go grocery shopping and stand there and debate if you really want a steak that will cost near as much as a tank of gas in the little truck !!!!