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All-Natural Scottish Highland Beef
Compare with Certified Organic Beef

Direct From the Farm at Wild Rose Meadows
See us online at www.midwesthighlands.org/wildrose.htm

Dave & Mary Van Antwerp, Otsego, Michigan 616-293-2600

All-Natural Highland Beef Compares With Certified Organic Beef, but Costs Less!

You will like Wild Rose Meadows all-natural Highland beef because you will actually know what you are eating!

Scottish Highland beef naturally has less fat and lower cholesterol than commercial beef.

We purposely breed our own top grade steers from registered stock rather than buying cull cows, unwanted dairy cattle, or "feeder steers" purchased from an auction house.

We raise Scottish Highland steers the way God made them – on grassy pastures without any steroids, growth hormones or antibiotics in the feed.

Scottish Highland steers get 3 summers and 2 winters to mature in choice condition at their own pace. Feed-lot steers are pushed to maturity in 2 summers and 1 winter using steroids, growth hormones and antibiotics.

We spend a lot of time caring for each individual animal even though our breeding and hand-feeding program is much more labor intensive and costly than commercial feed-lot operations.

After raising our beef steers on fresh tender greens, they are finished on natural whole grains to insure excellent marbling, taste and texture.

Advantages of All-Natural Highland Beef:

· You know you are getting genuine all-natural beef, raised on grass on the family farm.

· You know you can walk out to the pasture and pick out your own steer (if you want to).

· You know that no meat from other sources has been added as filler.

· You know the beef is free of steroids, growth hormones and antibiotics.

· You know your steer was treated with love and respect right to the last minute.

· You know your steer was never touched with an electric cattle prod.

· You know your steer was not trucked, penned and mistreated in a distant slaughter house.

Typical yield:

	· Weight on the hoof: 1200 pounds
	· Hanging weight: 770 pounds
	· Freezer beef from one steer: 502 pounds

Typical Beef Steer Cuts: Half: Quarter:

Chuck Roast 125.5 lb 54 pkg	52 lb	12 pkg	26 lb	6 pkg
Round Roast or Round Steak	24 lb	6 pkg	12 lb	3 pkg
Rump Roast	10 lb	2 pkg	5 lb	1 pkg
Rolled Rib Roast	9 lb	2 pkg	4.5 lb	1 pkg
Sizzler Steak or Sirloin Tip Roast	9 lb	10 pkg	4.5 lb	5 pkg
Sirloin Steak	9 lb	8 pkg	4.5 lb	4 pkg
T-Bone Steak	8 lb	4 pkg	4 lb	2 pkg
Porterhouse Steak	8 lb	4 pkg	4 lb	2 pkg
Filet Mignon (tenderloin)	2 lb	2 pkg	1 lb	1 pkg
Lean Ground Steak	105 lb	52 pkg	52.5 lb	26 pkg
Short Ribs	12 lb	6 pkg	6 lb	3 pkg
Soup Bones if desired, no charge
Totals	251 lb	108 pkg	125.5 lb	54 pkg

Surprisingly, a beef quarter will not provide a lot of steaks and roasts. At least half of the packages will be lean ground steak. A complete beef steer will fit in a 21 cubic foot chest freezer with a bit of room at the top for other items. One beef quarter will leave a lot of room for other items.

Cutting and Packaging Options:

	You have several options as to how you would like your meat cut and packaged.
	You may select T-Bone and Porterhouse steaks, or New York Strips and Tenderoin
	You may select round roast or round steak
	You may select Delmonico steaks instead of rolled rib roast (freezer packages of the prime rib cuts).
	You may select chuck roast or ground chuck.
	You may select the thickness of the steaks.
	Our ground beef is naturally lean - equivalent to “ground round” or “ground sirloin” at the grocery store, depending whether you individually package some of the less-than-prime cuts or add them to the ground beef.
	You may choose to have ground beef made into patties in 5 pound bags, either 3 or 4 to the pound. (Pre-frozen patties have less juice than hand pressed patties)

Butchering and Packaging:

In accordance with USDA regulations, you purchase a portion of a steer prior to butchering. We make arrangements for the butcher to come to the farm and then take the beef quarters back to Byron Center Wholesale Meats in Byron Center, Michigan, south of Grand Rapids, for cutting, vacuum-packaging and freezing. They will call you to help you select your cuts and packaging options.

Your Investment:

Your investment is $2.25 per pound hanging weight in the cooler at Byron Center Wholesale Meats, plus your portion of the cost of butchering and processing.

Butchering normally costs about $80 per steer, $40 for a half, $20 for a quarter. Processing and packaging costs about $360 per steer, $180 for a half, $90 for a quarter.

Contact:

Dave and Mary Van Antwerp, Otsego, Michigan
Phone: 616-293-2600 (Please note the area code – this is a cell phone number)
Online at www.MidwestHighlands.org/Wildrose.htm

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