Tag: butcher

  • Ask the butcher!

    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…

  • Mobile Butchering

    Mobile Butchering

    Mobile butchering, also called on-farm butchering definitely has its share of challenges. But, there are a few who are making it work, and excelling in this field! Farmers and producers are looking for options that minimize stress to the animal and cut out long transportation times to a butcher shop. Have you used a mobile…

  • Eat Your Way Through a Cow, Episode 1

    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…

  • Cutting up The Beef podcast

    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.

  • What Do I Need to do Before I Drop off my Meat for Processing?

    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…