A & B Homecoming Beef

Glenn — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:40:31 +0000

We will have a booth at the Annual Exhibition of Farmers at the Roger T Sermon Community Center, located at Truman & Noland Rd, Independence, on Saturday, April 3. We will be selling 1 pound packages of ground beef at this event. Also, we will have a few yearling calves available in June for sale that would be ready for July 4 barbeque. Come by the event and visit with us.

Glenn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:33:48 +0000

We want to share an article that was in the Missouri Farmer today, dated Janurary 9,2010. The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat. The boar gored Kremer in the knee with a razor-sharp tusk. Kremer’s red-hot leg ballooned to double its size. A strep infection spread, threatening his life and baffling doctors. Two months of multiple antibiotics did virtually nothing. The boar had been fed low doses of penicillin, spawning a strain of strep that was resistant to other antibiotics. That drug-resistant germ passed to Kremer. Like Kremer, more and more Americans – many of them living far from farms – are at risk from the practice of feeding livestock antibiotics. These animals grow faster, but they can also develop drug-resistant infections that are passed on to people. Researchers say the overuse of antibiotics in humans and animals has led to a plague of drug-resistant infections that killed more than 65,000 people in the United States last year. And, in a nation that used about 35 million pounds of antibiotics last year, 70 percent of the drugs – 28 million lbs. – went to pigs, chickens and cows. The rise in the use of antibiotics is part of a growing problem of soaring drug resistance worldwise. As a result, killer diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and staph are resurging in new and more deadly forms. In response, the pressure against the use of antibiotics in agriculture is rising. The World Health Organization concluded this year surging antibiotic resistance is one of the leading threats to human health. The Food and Drug Administration , the CDC and the USDA, declared drug-resistant diseases stemming from antibiotic use in animals a “serious emerging concern.” Farm groups and pharmaceutical companies argue drugs keep animals healthy and meat costs low, and have defeated a series of proposed limits on their use. Kremer finally found an antibiotic that worked on his leg. Tests on his pigs showed they were resistant to all the same drugs he was. “I don’t know why it took me that long to wake up to the fact that what we were doing, it was not the right thing to do and that there were alternatives,” says Kremer. “We were just basically killing ourselves and society by doing this.” There was also an article in Time Magazine the week of January 18, that may be of interest. It concerns the benefits of grass-finish beef versus commercially prepared feedlot beef.

Glenn — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:17:22 +0000

We have a half of beef to sell at this time. It will be going to the processor on Wednesday, December 16. If you are interested in a 1/2 or a split 1/2, please call and place your order. We must be notified before this date, otherwise we will be keeping it for our own use. As noted in an earlier blog, we will have some hamburger only to sell, and that will complete our sales until the fall of 2010. We thank our customers for their business and look forward to serving you next year. Happy Holidays!! Glenn & Jane Ann

Glenn — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:56:13 +0000

We will be selling a couple of 1st calf heifers that did not breed back for next spring. These are 100% grass fed and finished from our own herd, just like our calves. The only differences would be that they are 3 years old and have had 1 calf last spring. They are fat and happy but we would like to sell them to make money. All meat, including steaks and roasts, will be ground into hamburger. No fat or meat from any other animals will be added. The price is $1.75 per lb. X hanging weight plus processing cost of $0.46 per lb. X hanging weight and $45.00 to kill and process with state inspection. Your cost per lb. to take home is around $3.64 for this healthy and delicious ground beef. We will sell whole, 1/2 or split 1/2. These animals should weigh around 1000 lbs. live weight. A whole would be around 370 lbs. take home weight. The heart, tongue, liver and ribs are not included in the ground beef. You may buy any or all of these at $4.00/lb. Please call 660-221-1918 for more information or to place an order. Thanks, Glenn & Jane Ann

Glenn — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:18:00 +0000

We want to thank everyone for e-mails and calls about buying our beef. Hetheringtons will be processing for us at the end of September. If you want some beef, a down-payment should be made by September 15. We will have a couple of 2-year olds that we are keeping to sell in the spring of 2010. Have a great winter and give us a call later if you are interested in beef next year. Thanks again, Glenn & Jane