Coming in 2025: 1/2 Grass-Fed and Finished Beef - Deposit
***Coming Early 2025*** The 2024 season was sold out. Butcher dates for 2025 will be end of summer/early fall.
This is our best value in ordering our premium grass-fed and finished beef. Meat will be cut according to our standard cutting instructions, or based on custom instructions you supply.
This $300 deposit will secure your animal. The remaining balance will be due when the meat is ready for pickup. Pricing for a half steer is $5.25 per pound hanging weight. Processing charges and delivery to Viola Farm are included in the total price/lb.
FAQs on Ordering a 1/2 Beef Side:
Viola Farm sells whole beef animals by hanging weight. This side of 100% Grass-fed Beef that is cryovac-sealed and frozen.
Pricing is determined by the hanging weight of your animal. Hanging weight is the actual weight of the animal shortly after it is slaughtered, minus skin, head, and most internal organs.
What you receive should be approximately 60-65 percent of the hanging weight, depending on the cutting instructions you choose and the items you accept or decline.
An example/average based on past experience, beginning with a 1,200-lb live, “finished” animal:
– 730-lb (whole) hanging weight carcass is cut into (2) 365-lb “sides,” each of which become…
–220-237 lbs of finished, table-ready meat.
The actual finished weight you receive will depend on the size of your particular animal and on your cutting instructions. If you have everything deboned, and decline your soup/dog bones, organs, etc., your yield will be closer to 60%. If you take everything you have coming, and choose bone-in cuts, your yield could be as high as 75-80%. Regardless of cutting instructions, there will also always be a “shrink” or water weight loss, as the carcass hangs for 10 days prior to being cut, during which time it loses moisture (but gains flavor and tenderness).
The size of your carcass may vary but the yield percentages will usually remain in the 60-65% range. A rough guide to calculating freezer space needed is that 30 lbs of packaged meat takes up ~1 cubic foot of freezer space. So, a side of beef that yields 220-237 lbs will require 7 - 10 cubic feet of freezer space.
Pricing:
Pricing for a 1/2 steer is $5.25 per lb hanging weight. Before your beef is ready for pick-up at Viola Farm, you will be sent a second invoice for the remaining balance.
**All costs of processing, packaging and delivery to Viola Farm are included in our price.**
To order, you will be required to submit a $300 deposit online. After the deposit is collected, we will contact you with schedule, pick-up details, and any other additional information. A second invoice for the remaining balance will be due upon pick up of the meat.
Cutting Instructions:
You can either choose our standard cutting instructions or submit your own custom cutting instructions with Solar Meats.
***Coming Early 2025*** The 2024 season was sold out. Butcher dates for 2025 will be end of summer/early fall.
This is our best value in ordering our premium grass-fed and finished beef. Meat will be cut according to our standard cutting instructions, or based on custom instructions you supply.
This $300 deposit will secure your animal. The remaining balance will be due when the meat is ready for pickup. Pricing for a half steer is $5.25 per pound hanging weight. Processing charges and delivery to Viola Farm are included in the total price/lb.
FAQs on Ordering a 1/2 Beef Side:
Viola Farm sells whole beef animals by hanging weight. This side of 100% Grass-fed Beef that is cryovac-sealed and frozen.
Pricing is determined by the hanging weight of your animal. Hanging weight is the actual weight of the animal shortly after it is slaughtered, minus skin, head, and most internal organs.
What you receive should be approximately 60-65 percent of the hanging weight, depending on the cutting instructions you choose and the items you accept or decline.
An example/average based on past experience, beginning with a 1,200-lb live, “finished” animal:
– 730-lb (whole) hanging weight carcass is cut into (2) 365-lb “sides,” each of which become…
–220-237 lbs of finished, table-ready meat.
The actual finished weight you receive will depend on the size of your particular animal and on your cutting instructions. If you have everything deboned, and decline your soup/dog bones, organs, etc., your yield will be closer to 60%. If you take everything you have coming, and choose bone-in cuts, your yield could be as high as 75-80%. Regardless of cutting instructions, there will also always be a “shrink” or water weight loss, as the carcass hangs for 10 days prior to being cut, during which time it loses moisture (but gains flavor and tenderness).
The size of your carcass may vary but the yield percentages will usually remain in the 60-65% range. A rough guide to calculating freezer space needed is that 30 lbs of packaged meat takes up ~1 cubic foot of freezer space. So, a side of beef that yields 220-237 lbs will require 7 - 10 cubic feet of freezer space.
Pricing:
Pricing for a 1/2 steer is $5.25 per lb hanging weight. Before your beef is ready for pick-up at Viola Farm, you will be sent a second invoice for the remaining balance.
**All costs of processing, packaging and delivery to Viola Farm are included in our price.**
To order, you will be required to submit a $300 deposit online. After the deposit is collected, we will contact you with schedule, pick-up details, and any other additional information. A second invoice for the remaining balance will be due upon pick up of the meat.
Cutting Instructions:
You can either choose our standard cutting instructions or submit your own custom cutting instructions with Solar Meats.
***Coming Early 2025*** The 2024 season was sold out. Butcher dates for 2025 will be end of summer/early fall.
This is our best value in ordering our premium grass-fed and finished beef. Meat will be cut according to our standard cutting instructions, or based on custom instructions you supply.
This $300 deposit will secure your animal. The remaining balance will be due when the meat is ready for pickup. Pricing for a half steer is $5.25 per pound hanging weight. Processing charges and delivery to Viola Farm are included in the total price/lb.
FAQs on Ordering a 1/2 Beef Side:
Viola Farm sells whole beef animals by hanging weight. This side of 100% Grass-fed Beef that is cryovac-sealed and frozen.
Pricing is determined by the hanging weight of your animal. Hanging weight is the actual weight of the animal shortly after it is slaughtered, minus skin, head, and most internal organs.
What you receive should be approximately 60-65 percent of the hanging weight, depending on the cutting instructions you choose and the items you accept or decline.
An example/average based on past experience, beginning with a 1,200-lb live, “finished” animal:
– 730-lb (whole) hanging weight carcass is cut into (2) 365-lb “sides,” each of which become…
–220-237 lbs of finished, table-ready meat.
The actual finished weight you receive will depend on the size of your particular animal and on your cutting instructions. If you have everything deboned, and decline your soup/dog bones, organs, etc., your yield will be closer to 60%. If you take everything you have coming, and choose bone-in cuts, your yield could be as high as 75-80%. Regardless of cutting instructions, there will also always be a “shrink” or water weight loss, as the carcass hangs for 10 days prior to being cut, during which time it loses moisture (but gains flavor and tenderness).
The size of your carcass may vary but the yield percentages will usually remain in the 60-65% range. A rough guide to calculating freezer space needed is that 30 lbs of packaged meat takes up ~1 cubic foot of freezer space. So, a side of beef that yields 220-237 lbs will require 7 - 10 cubic feet of freezer space.
Pricing:
Pricing for a 1/2 steer is $5.25 per lb hanging weight. Before your beef is ready for pick-up at Viola Farm, you will be sent a second invoice for the remaining balance.
**All costs of processing, packaging and delivery to Viola Farm are included in our price.**
To order, you will be required to submit a $300 deposit online. After the deposit is collected, we will contact you with schedule, pick-up details, and any other additional information. A second invoice for the remaining balance will be due upon pick up of the meat.
Cutting Instructions:
You can either choose our standard cutting instructions or submit your own custom cutting instructions with Solar Meats.