Wal-Mart USDA No. 1 Choice beef.

[alohacattle]

Any thoughts on how to compete with that other than offering grass feed lean beef like the imported stuff.

 

[Running Arrow Bill]

While I'm not a supporter or advocate of Walley World by any means, they do have their own capitalistic, expansionist views. They will alleged sell anything they can get a deal on from the victimized producers. That said, GRASS FED ALL NATURAL BEEF definitely has a following and will command a higher price. Consumers are becoming more and more aware of the benefits of NO hormones, antibiotics, steroids, implants, feedlot confined animals.

So...people buy what they want...

 

[Jogeephus]

Raise better quality beef than they sell. Of course I was in Sam's the other day and looked at their beef and it looked pretty good to me.

 

[highgrit]

The beef looks great, the problem with it is the taste. Their beef it treated with something to preserve it and to make it safe to eat.
Walmart and Publix beef is the worst tasting beef, but it does look good. :yuck: I was wondering if their beef might be imported??

 

[alohacattle]

Raise better quality beef than they sell. Of course I was in Sam's the other day and looked at their beef and it looked pretty good to me.

Odds of that happening are not on our side. When buying meat from small producers getting quality beef is rolling the dice. You have a 3% chance of selling better beef.

 

[alohacattle]

The beef looks great, the problem with it is the taste. Their beef it treated with something to preserve it and to make it safe to eat.
Walmart and Publix beef is the worst tasting beef, but it does look good. :yuck: I was wondering if their beef might be imported??

Walmart's USDA CHOICE No. 1 beef is not treated with anything to preserve it. The co2 treated meat comes in the air tight containers. Walmarts USDA Choice No. 1 beef does not come in air tight containers.

 

[brierpatch1974]

Some stores do it some do not but its perfectly legal to add things to the meat to help keep its color. Some places use embalming fluid to do this. All the preservatives in food today proves one thing. That the embalming process when we die is a money racket. We are already so well preserved we will alst longer than any mummy ever has!

 

[Jogeephus]

Any thoughts on how to compete with that other than offering grass feed lean beef like the imported stuff.

Why do you have to compete with them? Just sell it for what they sell it for.

 

[Stocker Steve]

That said, GRASS FED ALL NATURAL BEEF definitely has a following and will command a higher price. Consumers are becoming more and more aware of the benefits of NO hormones, antibiotics, steroids, implants, feedlot confined animals. So...people buy what they want...

You need to have a different product at a higher price than Walmart.
For some people it just needs to be locally produced by someone they know.
What characteristics do your customers value?

 

[salebarn junkie]

I think the angle you need to go after is the burger. It wont have water added, no colaring added, it wasn't last weeks roast, it comes from one animale not one hundred differnt cows that were at deaths door. Your beef will be aged there's won't. I think a feedlot does a better job raising beef than the average person feeding out a few steers. Its after it leaves the feedlot that the problems start.

 

[alohacattle]

I think the angle you need to go after is the burger. It wont have water added, no colaring added, it wasn't last weeks roast, it comes from one animale not one hundred differnt cows that were at deaths door. Your beef will be aged there's won't. I think a feedlot does a better job raising beef than the average person feeding out a few steers. Its after it leaves the feedlot that the problems start.

That sounds great, but heck they can buy USDA No. 1 Choice ribeye for less than my burger. Meat grinders are cheap at Bass Pro Shops. Fresh ground burger out of ribeye, that is tough to beat.

 

[highgrit]

Aged beef is hard to beat. 21 days is my preference and grain fed. But anybody can raise better tasting beef than Walmart.

 

[alohacattle]

Aged beef is hard to beat. 21 days is my preference and grain fed. But anybody can raise better tasting beef than Walmart.

I find it very hard to believe that just ANYBODY can raise better tasting beef than USDA Choice No. 1 beef like Wal-Mart sells. I do understand that some people like lean grass fed Standard Grade beef, however the premium still gets paid for Prime and Choice No. 1.

 

[Bigfoot]

I put a steer in the freezer that actually graded prime once. It wasn't really noticeably better than others I have put up. It was a show steer.

 

[alohacattle]

I put a steer in the freezer that actually graded prime once. It wasn't really noticeably better than others I have put up. It was a show steer.

Congratulations your steer was able to do what 97% of the other people's cattle posting here could not do.

 

[Bigfoot]

It wasn't mine. I bought it.

 

[Jogeephus]

Raise better quality beef than they sell. Of course I was in Sam's the other day and looked at their beef and it looked pretty good to me.

Odds of that happening are not on our side. When buying meat from small producers getting quality beef is rolling the dice. You have a 3% chance of selling better beef.

Contract with specific producers to raise what you want.

 

[highgrit]

Alohacattle it's the aging process that makes the difference. I wish we still raised a butcher steer but the nickles just don't add up. We eat alot of seafood and wild game. But when we want steaks I go to a meat market not a Walmart and have them cut, yes it cost more per lb. but the taste is well worth the extra dollars. Walmart does something to their beef and it affects the taste in a bad way.

 

[backhoeboogie]

But when we want steaks I go to a meat market not a Walmart and have them cut, yes it cost more per lb. but the taste is well worth the extra dollars.

I've been to a Walmart more than three times this year. That's way to many. I would never buy a steak there. I only go when I cannot find something somewhere else.

It is probably my ego but I prefer maw and paw shops, gas stations, etc. They are glad to see me when I walk in.

 

[alohacattle]

Alohacattle it's the aging process that makes the difference. I wish we still raised a butcher steer but the nickles just don't add up. We eat alot of seafood and wild game. But when we want steaks I go to a meat market not a Walmart and have them cut, yes it cost more per lb. but the taste is well worth the extra dollars. Walmart does something to their beef and it affects the taste in a bad way.

What do they cut your steaks from?