Tag: selling

  • Dexter Beef Cuts

    Dexter Beef Cuts

    We’ll weigh each and give cooking and selling tips. Dexter beef is the best!

  • USDA: No payment for heifer retention

    USDA: No payment for heifer retention

    There was a lot of speculation about a heifer retention program to deal with the screwworm issues.

  • SHIPPING CATTLE

    SHIPPING CATTLE

    Preparing cattle to travel to their new home can be overwhelming. Reliable transportation, health papers, disease testing – here’s what you need to know before shipping livestock across state lines. https://www.agproud.com/articles/61584-cattle-drives-preparing-your-livestock-for-interstate-travel#:~:text=Tagging%20along:%20Identification,before%20shipping%20recently%20sold%20livestock

  • How to Get Your Product Into Grocery Stores

    How to Get Your Product Into Grocery Stores

    Grocery stores are a great way to put your business into overdrive, giving customers new options in ever-fashionable packaging. Whether you are looking to sell at local convenience stores or big-box wholesale grocers, it presents the perfect opportunity for your product. Interested in learning more about how to get your product into grocery stores? In…

  • Farm Sales…A Way I Find works

    Farm Sales…A Way I Find works

    I think one of the hardest things for farmers, ranchers and homesteaders is when they need to sell something off the farm.  That journey should start well before you need to sell something. Let’s look at the model I use for selling of Dexter beef.   I share all of the information about our wonderful breed I…

  • LET’S TALK DEXTER WEIGHTS!

    LET’S TALK DEXTER WEIGHTS!

    Calling all Beef Breeders!!! For anyone who likes a bit of Beef in their dual-purpose Dexters here’s something for you! Have you ever wondered what the Live weight, the Average daily weight gain of live weight, Weight of dressed Carcass, Percentage of carcass to gross live weight, Weight of loose fat and Weight of hide…

  • The Ultimate Guide to Delivering an Effective Sales Pitch

    The Ultimate Guide to Delivering an Effective Sales Pitch

    A sales pitch can make or break a deal, which is why yours must be as effective as possible. In this blog, we’ll show you how to craft irresistible sales pitches that leave jaws dropping, wallets opening, and deals sealed with a smile 🙂

  • Why Dexters make so much sense for the homesteader… On a small scale, raising cows for milk only can be costly!
  • How To Take Great Photos For Your Online Ads

    How To Take Great Photos For Your Online Ads

    When it comes to photography for marketing and advertising, creativity and vision are only half the battle. Images play an essential role in marketing and advertising because they tell a story, convey a brand’s message, and attract widespread attention on social media. Nonetheless, millions of advertising images are on the internet and social media—but only…

  • Perceived value ….true for dexter milk, beef and breeding stock

    Perceived value ….true for dexter milk, beef and breeding stock

    A CONVERSATION ABOUT PERCEIVED VALUE: A customer asked me how much it would cost for a gallon of raw milk . I gave them a price of $15/gallon. The customer responded: That’s seems really high. I asked: What do you think is a reasonable price for this? The customer answered: $4 maximum I responded: Ok,…

  • 5 Steps to Successful Direct-to-Consumer Meat Sales

    5 Steps to Successful Direct-to-Consumer Meat Sales

    While direct-to-consumer meat sales can offer greater profits, people often underestimate the time it takes to become established. “How quickly you build your business depends on using your time, investment, and resources wisely,” said Katie Olthoff, co-founder of ChopLocal, an online farmers market that offers products from 45 farmers and butcher shops.

  • How to Successfully Sell Wholesale Produce

    How to Successfully Sell Wholesale Produce

    A USDA report published in 2021 says that sales of local edible farm products grew 35% from 2015 to 2017. This growth is thanks to increased sales through retailers, institutions, and wholesalers​. Wholesale or business-to-business (B2B) selling is when a business (farm in this case) sells their products to another wholesale buyer or business (e.g., restaurant, grocery store,…

  • Mentorship

    Mentorship

    From Curiosity to Confidence: The Power of Mentorship in Homesteading When we packed up and moved to a new state, we knew we were signing up for a life of hard work. Beyond that? We were flying blind. With little more than enthusiasm and a Pinterest board full of dreams, we dove headfirst into the…

  • The Art of Weaning Calves

    The Art of Weaning Calves

    The most traumatic experience for cow-calf producers is when they wean their calves-and it is not real great for the calves, either.  https://extension.psu.edu/the-delicate-art-of-weaning-calves#:~:text=Weaning%20Methods,most%20important%20factor%20in%20weaning

  • Dexters – Poor Man’s Cow to Luxury Cow By Danielle Lowther

    Dexters – Poor Man’s Cow to Luxury Cow By Danielle Lowther

    Poor Man’s Cow to Luxury Cow How did the Poor Man’s Cow become owned by the wealthy and famous. Dexters and Kerry Cattle became recognized for their unique hardy attributes, Kerry for milk and Dexter for milk and meat. Dexters were known to get by on less, produce rich milk and raise a healthy vigorous…

  • Dexter Beef Podcast – Taste the Difference

    Dexter Beef Podcast – Taste the Difference

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  • Increase Your Profits, Enhance Your Brand, Improve Your Market Access

    Increase Your Profits, Enhance Your Brand, Improve Your Market Access

    IrishDexterCattlemen.com is a tremendous platform for crafting your compelling brand story, allowing you to connect directly with your buyers at a deeper level. It gives you the ability to differentiate yourself from competitors. Like many online platforms, you can advertise yourself, your farm, your products and achieve real results. Unlike any other platform, Irish Dexter…

  • Niche Marketing of Cattle/Beef

    Niche Marketing of Cattle/Beef

    When marketing niche products, customersexpect the marketer to cater to their needs and beresponsive to their desires. This means producingproducts with unique characteristics and using thosecharacteristics as a basis for marketing. Under thisform of “product” marketing, the goal is to create aproduct that is different from other items on themarket.

  • Beef with a story to it: Niche market for ranch-raised beef on the rise

    Beef with a story to it: Niche market for ranch-raised beef on the rise

    Direct beef purchases from the farm continue to be an emerging trend as consumers want to know both the story and faces behind the products they are purchasing, according to an expert.

  • Cattle Marketing Plans: Traditional vs. Direct to Consumer

    Cattle Marketing Plans: Traditional vs. Direct to Consumer

    To maximize profits, it is crucial that cattle producers have a marketing plan in advance. Many different avenues are available for producers to market cattle, and all have varying regulations and requirements. Although we will be providing beef examples throughout this fact sheet, many of the same rules for meat processing and sales apply to…

  • Do you know how to do a tail stick to get blood for Pregnancy and Tenet Beef testing?

    Do you know how to do a tail stick to get blood for Pregnancy and Tenet Beef testing?

    Here is a video that Nancy Bowers, Lonestar Ranch did on blood testing one her Dexters. This the same technique that you will need for testing for Tenet beef tenderness, except you will need much less….lol. I have sent in 7 tenet tenderness tests to see if our Dexters have this genetic trait. Unlike other…

  • Advantages of Marketing Your Beef Directly

    Advantages of Marketing Your Beef Directly

    Small-scale livestock producers who direct market their animals or their products have more control over variable market prices and can increase their profit potential.

  • Grassroots Marketing for Farms: 5 Ways To Reach Customers

    Grassroots Marketing for Farms: 5 Ways To Reach Customers

    As a farmer, you’re a growth expert. You can turn seeds into delicious produce, coax a bountiful harvest from even the poorest of soil, and take livestock from scrawny to hefty.  But for financial success, you also need to become an expert in growing your customer base. 

  • Learn by Example: 7 Successful Small Business Marketing Campaigns

    Learn by Example: 7 Successful Small Business Marketing Campaigns

    Marketing is an important tool for businesses of all sizes. Small businesses can use marketing techniques and strategies to attract more customers, gain market share, boost brand awareness and create new revenue options. Through these techniques, small businesses can market themselves to existing and potential customers, investors and even other businesses. A marketing campaign’s success is determined…

  • Get Camera Ready: Livestreaming Is the Future of Social Media

    Get Camera Ready: Livestreaming Is the Future of Social Media

    Many social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, have livestreaming functionality. But livestreaming isn’t just for celebrities and influencers; businesses are increasingly using livestreaming on social media as a marketing tool. Businesses can use livestreaming as a form of social media marketing to connect with customers, generate more followers, demonstrate products and services, and educate and entertain…

  • Video Marketing Statistics 2025

    Video Marketing Statistics 2025

    We gathered the video marketing statistics below by surveying 205 unique respondents in late 2024. Our sample included both marketing professionals and online consumers. We separated these groups with a preliminary question, to make sure that respondents were only asked questions relevant to them.

  • Do you struggle with sales…listen up!

    Do you struggle with sales…listen up!

    Building a customer base, rather than selling at the sale barn is essential to our Dexter businesses. In this podcast, they discuss how to build your business and attract your customers . https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/working-cows-regenerative-ranching-to-maximize-profitability/id1307361758?i=1000704417367

  • COUPON EXPIRES END OF MONTH…DON’T MISS OUT!  Why I use the Irish Dexter Cattlemen to help me market my homestead.

    COUPON EXPIRES END OF MONTH…DON’T MISS OUT! Why I use the Irish Dexter Cattlemen to help me market my homestead.

    I wanted to share the great experiences I am having using the Irish Dexter Cattlemen (IDC) to sell Dexter semen, Nubian goats, soaps and shampoos…I don’t have any Dexter stock available, or I would be using the site for them too. I love using the site to write my ad once.  Load pictures once.  And…

  • Buying and selling livestock

    Buying and selling livestock

    If you are selling livestock, it is your responsibility to ensure that any form of representation (including advertising) made in connection with the sale of your livestock, in order to promote the supply or transfer of ownership, is true.

  • What is the Best Way to Sell Your Cows?

    What is the Best Way to Sell Your Cows?

    Online sales, live auctions, on-farm sales, Facebook (if they don’t delete your post), Craig’s list, your own website…how do you get the sale? The secret is…it doesn’t really matter what platform you use.  The secret is to educate your buyer.   Whether you are dealing with a person brand new to cows or to your…