LOCALLY PRODUCED BEEF RESOURCES
Planning for Success: Developing a Plan for Your Beef Business
Begin with the end in mind. An overview of some of the items you need to think about where and how to market your beef.
Detailed information regarding meat regulations from NCDA&CS
Production Information for Locally-Raised Beef
Links to resources on pasture management and cattle nutrition.
What Farmers Need to Know to Direct Market Meat in North Carolina
Covers regulatory and product liability issues for locally produced and direct marketed beef.
NCDACS Directory of Meat and Poultry Processing and Slaughter Plants
A directory of meat and poultry processing and slaughter facilities in North Carolina that are either inspected by NCDACS as state plants or custom processing facilities, or by USDA.
Resources for Evaluating Some of the Economic Aspects of Direct Marketing Beef
- Enterprise budget guidelines are available from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NCSU. These include forage budgets and beef production budgets, including a budget for finishing cattle on pasture. Budgets are available in print or spreadsheet versions and come with explanatory notes. They are available on line at http://www.ag-econ.ncsu.edu/extension/Ag_budgets.html
- Two Excel spreadsheets to help producers evaluate pricing decisions and the net revenue from processing one or more market-ready beef animals are available on line at http://www.ag-econ.ncsu.edu/faculty/benson/benson.html. Click on the appropriate link:
o “Pricing Your Value Added Product”
o “Figuring Beef Cutout Value and Net Revenue for Direct Marketers”
Other Resources
A categorized list of links to on line resources that might be useful to beef producers can be found at http://www.ag-econ.ncsu.edu/faculty/benson/Webresources.htm
Natural Beef
Resources from AgMRC, the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center
http://www.agmrc.org/agmrc/commodity/livestock/beef/beef+natural.htm
