One animal
What a steer actually becomes.
Every beef company shows you a ribeye. Almost none show you the other ninety percent of the animal that ribeye came from. This is that page.
Estimates
representative industry figures — pending the processor's actual cut sheet. When the plant gives us a real cut sheet, these numbers get replaced with measured ones and this label comes off.
Live weight
1300 lbHanging weight · 62%
806 lbBeef you take home
523 lbA thirteen-hundred pound steer yields about 523 pounds of beef. Here is how that splits, heaviest first — and the hatched part of each bar is roughly how much of it realistically ends up as ground rather than as a whole cut.
By primal
Sold as: Burger Patties, Chuck Roast, The Family Freezer Box, Flat Iron Steaks, Ground Beef + 5 more
Sold as: Cube Steak, The Quarter Beef Box, The Ranch Hand Box, Round Roast, Sirloin Tip Roast + 1 more
Sold as: The Family Freezer Box, Filet Mignon, The Quarter Beef Box, The Steak Night Box, New York Strip Steaks + 1 more
Sold as: The Family Freezer Box, The Quarter Beef Box, Ribeye Steaks, Bone-In Ribeyes, The Steak Night Box
Sold as: The Family Freezer Box, Flank Steak, The Quarter Beef Box, Short Ribs, Skirt Steak + 1 more
Sold as: Whole Brisket, The Family Freezer Box, The Quarter Beef Box
Sold as: Beef Shank, Oxtail, The Quarter Beef Box, Soup Bones
Why the catalogue looks like it does
We have to sell the whole animal.
Chuck and round together are about half of a steer. If we only sold ribeyes and strips, roughly four hundred pounds of every animal would have nowhere to go — which is why our boxes lean on roasts, short ribs, and ground rather than pretending an animal is mostly steak.
Catalogue coverage: 100% of retail weight has a product that uses it.