Half beef natural

A natural half beef, raised without hormones or antibiotics, cut and wrapped for your freezer. Roughly 90 kg of meat at $30.49/kg — about $2,744 for a year of beef, at a price per kilo no supermarket counter will match. It is the cheapest way to buy Québec beef, and the only way to know that every steak came from the same animal.

What is a half beef, and what does a half beef cost?

It is one full side of the carcass, front and hind — every cut rather than a single muscle. Ours is priced on actual weight at $30.49/kg, so for about 90 kg of wrapped meat you are looking at roughly $2,744. You pay the same per kilo for filet mignon as for ground beef, and that is exactly where the saving lives: at retail those cuts sell for three or four times the price of ground.

Natural Québec Beef

Our cattle are raised without hormones or antibiotics on our family farm in Huntingdon, Montérégie, where we have farmed since 2005. Buying half a beef means buying one identified animal raised an hour from Montréal, not a blend of origins — which is also why it tastes the same from the first steak to the last.

What you get in a half beef

A typical side, by number of packages:

• Rib steak or ribeye (1 in) — 12
• T-bone or striploin (1 in) — 12
• Filet mignon (1 in) — 10 to 12
• Tournedos (2 per 220 g pack) — 10 to 14
• French steak — 14
• Boston steak (½ in) — 10 to 12
• Flank steak — 2
• Chinese fondue or sandwich steak — 10 to 12
• Shoulder roast or French roast — 4
• Blade roast — 4
• Shanks (1 in) — 8
• Kebab cubes, 450 g — 12
• Beef cubes, 450 g — 30
• Beef strips, 225 g — 8
• Ground beef, 350 g — 84
• Soup bones, 800 g pack — 8

How much freezer space, and how long does it keep?

Ninety kilos of wrapped meat needs roughly 5 to 6 cu ft (140 to 170 L) of free freezer — in practice a mid-size chest freezer, or one large freezer drawer emptied out. At −18 °C beef keeps 6 to 12 months depending on the cut: roasts and steaks last longest, ground beef is best used within 4 months. Always thaw in the fridge, never on the counter.

Cutting, wrapping and delivery

It arrives cut, wrapped and frozen, ready to stack — there is no butchery to do at home. Packages are labelled by cut, which matters the day you are digging through the bottom of the freezer. For an order this size, call or write before ordering online and we will confirm the exact weight, the timing and how you will receive it. [TO CONFIRM: whether cuts can be customised, deposit terms, lead time from order to collection.]

Getting the most out of a half beef

A whole animal is not all steak, and that is the good news. Blade and shoulder roasts are winter's braises and stews; shanks and soup bones make a stock you cannot buy; the 84 packs of ground carry the weeknights. Keep the tender cuts — filet, striploin, ribeye — for the pan or the grill, and send everything that worked hard on the animal low and slow. A half beef feeds a family of four for roughly a year.

Half beef price and ordering

• Regular price: $30.49/kg — about $2,744 for a 90 kg side
• Weight: approximately 90 kg of wrapped meat
• Sold by weight: the final price reflects your side's actual weight
• Product number: 1184315
• Sold frozen, cut and wrapped by cut
• Raised without hormones or antibiotics in Huntingdon, Québec
• Where to buy: home delivery across Québec and Montréal by refrigerated truck, free delivery from $225. Farm pickup at 62 York Street, Huntingdon.