Around here farm raised beef is in demand and a full beef will go for $2000-$2500 processed and ready to go in the freezer.
Farmers markets are a booming business and we're going to go in "halves" with someone to share a half beef that will feed our respective families for a year.
Texas is in a major drought and my ranching buddies have been driving 400 miles one-way to Arkansas to get round-bales.
To the uninitiated if anyone in Texas says their beef is grass-fed they are probably telling a story as there is no grass for the cows to eat right now and hasn't been for quite a while.
Hang in there Slow, those of us that have the means to support our local farmers and ranchers will do everything we can to do so.
My wife and I buy everything we can at our farmer's market and what little they don't have we either do without or buy a little here and there at the HEB (Texas supermarket that supports local farmers/ranchers/fishermen).