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I buy wholesale beef from a local farmer, met him at the farmers market in town years ago. With the processing fee included it costs me around $1,500 today to get half a cow worth. That's about 2 years worth of beef for a couple, 1 year for a family of four, as long as it is stored properly in a box freezer. It is enough to fill up a whole box freezer and even then you might have extra to store in the regular freezer too. Consider buying wholesale because over time, including the cost of inflation, buying beef by the pound in stores his a huge price gouge (stores tend to add around $2 per pound to make profits). Plus the fact if you buy from the farmer you can learn exactly what quality you are getting before you make a big purchase.