Tag: beef
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DEXTER OR JERSEY? CHOOSING THE RIGHT COW FOR YOUR HOMESTEAD.
Interesting joint video on the merits of the two breeds.
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BEEF TALLOW PRODUCTS….Don’t forget your skillet maintenance products!
We have always purchased this kind of product for our pans. Well not anymore.
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BREED COMPARISON….DEXTER VS MINATURE HEREFORD
Who wins the crown? An interesting and fair comparison. I think you know who takes the crown!
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Cattle Marketing Podcast – Reach Your Target Market and Boost Profits
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PRICE OF GOLD AND THE PRICE OF CATTLE
Here is a good video that gives you some food for thought. Interesting history on the price relationship. Are we valuing our Dexters herds like history has valued the cattle market? Another thing to think about is we produce a dual purpose animal. There’s value in both the milk and the meat!! This video is…
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Sustainability Podcast – The Irish Dexter
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Introduction to Tenet
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The Ribeye: Why This Cut Reigns Supreme
By David Payne Selecting the finest cut of beef is a debate as old as butchery itself. From white-tablecloth steakhouses to backyard grills, opinions are plentiful and fiercely defended. Yet when judged by flavor, tenderness, and overall culinary performance, one cut consistently distinguishes itself from the rest: the ribeye. ⸻ Defining Excellence in Beef To…
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Ask the butcher!
The Wranglers at Irish Dexter Cattlemen are pleased to announce that we have a butcher on our team now! The folks at PipeDreams Butchery, located near Memphis TN, will be writing articles, doing videos and more. They are familiar with Dexters, as they used own them, milk them and breed them. They are active on…
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Corned Beef Recipe
St. Patricks Day is coming up, and what better way to celebrate the day than with some home cooked, Dexter corned beef! The link below is to a recipe I’ve been using for several years with great success. Corning is a traditional way of curing beef meat. It does take time, so you want to…
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DEXTER CATTLE – JOY, LAUGHTER, AND HEARTBREAK PART II
COVID. It sucked. No matter what aisle of the plane that you sit in, even if you just want to stand in the middle, it sucked. There was tragedy, heart ache and despair. Some are still recovering. Some never will. All that said, it was eye opening for me. An introvert by nature (though very…
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The BEST Beef
We’ve been raising our own beef for years. Before that, we raised rabbit and chicken, and hunted deer to fill our freezer. It’s been so long since we had to purchase meat from the store, I forget how lucky we are. Especially now that we raise Dexter cattle. I’m always pleasantly surprised when we get…
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Eat Your Way Through a Cow, Episode 1
Here is a really good podcast about what you and your customers should expect when getting a cow processed . It can be intimidating to buy beef in bulk for the first time. Share with your customers to help them fully utilize a whole or half cow, which is a big (and worthwhile) investment. Please…
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Health Benefits of Grass-Fed Beef
Grass Fed beef is higher in beta carotene, vitamin E, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and omega 3 fatty acids
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What is Dexter Beef?
”With the rise of farm-to-table eating and artisanal meats many diners are seeking out flavorful beef from non-commercial cattle breeds. One such breed gaining popularity is Dexter beef a tender, succulent meat from small, hardy cows native to Ireland.” https://redtablemeats.com/fresh-meat/beef/what-is-dexter-beef
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Cutting up The Beef podcast
This podcast covers some of the questions we all have when starting out with cuts from our Dexters. The cuts will be the same…just different overall yields. They have some interesting ideas for selling to your customer base.
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Dexters ARE Irish and Proud of It
Dexters are well known as Irish Dexters even if many other points about them are debated. The above bull though registered with the Dexter Cattle Society is an Irish Dexter with a “fine type and constitution” as the article states. I checked, he certainly was owned and breed by Mr. W. Lindsay Everard of Ratcliffe.…
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The Dexter: The SmallHolder’s Cow
Great for Small Acreage Dexters have long been promoted the same way time and time again, “Docile and Hardy little cattle, dubbed the smallholder’s cow because of their ability to exist on about half the acreage of other cattle.” This is the niche market of a Dexter. They are well suited to beginners because they…
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How much of your Dexter do you use?
This is an interesting article on how people are returning to the old ways and using more and more of their processed beef. Healthier alternatives are growing in your pastures! https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/cowmaxxing-wellness-cow-tallow/683826
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Determining the Market Readiness of Beef Cattle
Mike Baker describes features of market readiness for both finished and unfinished beef and dairy crosses.
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Half a beef, What cuts to request
Learn how to have 1/2 a cow butchered for your family to get the right cuts https://www.grit.com/food/order-a-side-of-beef-zm0z20jazbut
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Simple Strategies to Increase Direct-to-Consumer Meat Sales
Selling meat directly to consumers is a popular method of adding value to established ranches. For some ranchers, selling directly to consumers is even the primary method of sale. Regardless of how it fits into the operation, there are some key marketing strategies that will take sales to the next level when applied correctly.
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Is There More Than One Way to Finish A Dexter?
Ways to finish a steer, heifer, cow or bull… https://www.beefmagazine.com/cattle-health/there-is-more-than-one-way-to-finish-a-steer
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What Do I Need to do Before I Drop off my Meat for Processing?
In this podcast, we learn about things we need to consider before we even schedule our meat for processing. Interesting fact is the return on the Dexter is higher than what is stated here. We experience much closer yields to 70% and our carcasses are smaller…so the freezer space issue is not as significant with…
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Preserving Irish Dexter Dairy and Beef
By Eliena Bodtke, Stay’N Put Farm Since many of us are homesteaders or practice some kind of preserving, I thought I would take a moment to discuss an alternative to canning, pressure canning and dehydrating. Are you scratching your head, thinking where is she going with this? Consider freeze drying. While the initial cost seems…
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Don’t Skimp On Winter Supplementation
A high-quality nutritional supplementation program for your cowherd https://www.beefmagazine.com/cattle-nutrition/don-t-skimp-on-winter-supplementation