Braised Roast Beef
Custom orders of Grass Fed Beef are welcomed. I can custom pack your order with a weeks notice. Choose how you want your meat cut, I offer ground beef, steaks, roasts, ribs, stew meat and cubed steak. Call me to answer any questions and place your order.
Jeff Davies
704-662-2988
www.PerryFarmsGrassFedBeef.com
Thanks to America’s beef producers, there are beef choices to satisfy all tastes, schedules and budgets. Don’t let choosing the right cut become confusing. This helpful chart can serve as your guide to find the best cut for your needs, whether it’s a weeknight family dinner or a special celebration. Above all, matching the correct beef cut to the appropriate cooking method is the key to moist, tender and flavorful beef.
Ground Beef
Fresh ground beef may vary in color during its shelf life. If exposed to oxygen through the permeable plastic wrapping, a package of ground beef may appear bright red on the surface, while the interior remains purplish-red. With extended exposure to oxygen, beef’s cherry-red color will take on a brown color.
These color changes are normal, and the ground beef remains perfectly wholesome and safe to eat if purchased by the “sell by” date on the package label.
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Live cattle futures moved higher this week despite limited direction from cash trade. Smaller supplies and a storm brewing in the northern feeding region proved a greater market force than lower to even cash fed cattle and boxed beef. Live Cattle closing prices on Friday (with the change from last week’s close in parentheses): February $87.43 (+1.63); April $90.40 (+1.03); June $88.10 (+0.27); August $87.35 (+0.02); October $89.85 (-0.13); December $90.78 (+0.28).
Higher corn prices early in the week and lower live cattle futures pushed feeder contracts lower this week. Feeder cattle ended the week on an upswing but this could not overcome the early week losses. In previous weeks a noticeable premium had been in place for the March, April and May contracts when compared to their seasonal average, indicating a supply/demand imbalance. Last fall the lack of available wheat pasture kept a lid on demand in the closing months of 2009. Since then, reports indicate the situation has been improving and buyers were in search of feeder cattle – spurred on by lower corn – but that imbalance appears to have worked itself out of late. Feeder Cattle futures closing prices on Friday (with change from last week’s close in parentheses) were as follows: March $98.33 (-0.55); April $99.68 (-1.28); May $101.18 (-0.63); August $102.60 (-0.25); September $102.30 (-0.45); October $101.95 (-0.55).
Corn futures moved up to start the week, but the momentum was short lived as a strengthening US dollar and other outside markets put pressure on the a already fragile corn market. The nearby March contract closed at $3.51 ½, down 5 cents from last week; the December contract was at $3.87, down 3 ¾ cents.
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