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Pricing

One flat price: $850 whole, $450 half

You know the price before you haul. It doesn't change based on how much your animal weighs.

Whole animal, one cut sheet

$850

One cut sheet for the whole animal. The price does not change with weight.

Half animal

$450

Its own cut sheet. Two halves with separate cut sheets are $900.

What the price includes

Fresh-cut ribeye and strip steaks laid out on trays in the cutting room

Everything it takes to get your beef from the trailer to the freezer.

  • Harvest
  • Cutting to your cut sheet
  • Vacuum sealing
  • Labeling
  • Freezing
  • Aging
  • Patties
  • Liver, heart, tongue, oxtail, beef cheek, kidney fat, soup bones, and marrow bones, if you check them on the cut sheet

No extra fees. No hanging-weight fee.

Hundreds of ground beef patties pressed and stacked between paper sheets
Tenderloin filets cut to thickness and lined up on a tray
Three marbled New York strip steaks on the cutting board next to a boning knife

Two exceptions

Label approval. You can put any valid claim on your label, and we handle all the label approval.

  • Claims we can approve in-plant: no added charge.
  • Claims that need USDA label approval: a small added charge to cover the process.

Commercial extras. Commercial extras like private label design and barcodes are quoted per project.

If you want either one, tell us when you book. Bring the documents that back up any label claim when you drop off.

Whole or two halves

  • A whole on one cut sheet is $850.
  • Two halves with separate cut sheets are $900 ($450 each).

Splitting into halves lets each half be cut its own way. That makes it easy to share an animal with family or sell a half to a buyer.

Organs and bones you check on the cut sheet are included at no charge: liver, heart, tongue, oxtail, beef cheek, kidney fat, soup bones, and marrow bones.

How to pay

Cash, check, or card. Payment is due at drop-off.

How much beef you'll take home

A properly finished steer yields about 36% of its live weight as take-home beef. For example, a 1,200 lb live steer is about 430 lb of take-home beef.

Two steps set that number:

Live weight to hanging weight
50 to 62%
Hanging weight to boxed beef
50 to 62%
Two beef sides hanging in the cooler during the aging period

Where your animal lands in those ranges depends on how well it’s finished. The full walkthrough is in hanging weight vs. take-home weight, and the 1,200 lb example is in how much meat you get from a cow.

Why Flat

How this compares to per-pound pricing

It's common to advertise a low kill fee and then charge by the hanging pound to cut and wrap. On a heavy carcass that back-end charge can rival the harvest fee itself, and you don't find out until the beef is already hanging.

The usual way

  • Kill fee quoted up front
  • Cut and wrap billed per hanging pound
  • Hanging-weight fees often extra
  • Vacuum sealing sometimes an upcharge
  • Final cost unknown until pickup

Our way

  • $850 whole on one cut sheet, or $450 a half
  • Two halves with separate cut sheets are $900
  • Cut and wrap included, no matter the yield
  • No hanging-weight fee
  • Vacuum sealing, labeling, freezing, aging, and patties included
  • Same number at pickup as at drop-off

A heavier animal costs us more to process, not you. That’s the trade: you get certainty, we get simpler books.

Compare It Yourself

Run your animal through both bills

Drag to your expected hanging weight and watch both bills change. The per-pound side uses a real Texas plant's published 2026 rate card, line for line.

700 lb
450 lbAbout 434 lb boxed950 lb
Patties

Typical per-pound plant

Harvest fee
$135.00
Cut & wrap: 700 lb × $1.40
$980.00
Patties
None
Box fee
$30.00
Vacuum sealing, disposal, rail weight
Varies by plant
Total$1,145

Parker County Beef Processing

Harvest and cutting
Included
Cut and wrap, any hanging weight
Included
Patties
Included
Vacuum sealing, labeling, freezing, aging
Included
Hanging-weight fee
None
Total$850

Flat fee saves $295 on this animal

Per-pound figures are a Texas USDA-inspected plant’s publicly posted rate card, effective March 2026, checked September 2026: $135 harvest, $1.40 per lb hanging weight, $750 minimum, $30 box fee, patties $1.50 per lb with a 25 lb minimum. Halves carry half the harvest fee and half the minimum; some plants add a split fee on top, which is not counted here. Vacuum sealing, disposal, and rail-weight charges vary by plant and are left out, so the per-pound total is a floor, not a ceiling.

The math behind this is in what it costs to process a beef in Texas.

Get a date on the calendar

Call (817) 404-7405 or stop by to schedule. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 10am to 6pm.

Call (817) 404-7405