Angus Beef

8) The cost is about $650 per quarter share and that includes everything - animal, processing and sales tax.

If this is too much for your family, find a friend to share it with you. One of our customers bought one quarter several years ago and shared it with his two kids - they soon ran out of beef. So then he ordered three quarters so everyone would have ample meat for the year. He made a great statement that went something like this, "This is a gift that keeps giving"; each time the kids go to the grocery their bill is less because they do not have to buy beef and they remember Mom and Dad."

7) The minimum order is one quarter share - this results in about 90-100 pounds of  boneless beef. The average weight per share in 2006 was 99 lb.  Americans generally ate between 64-68 lb. of beef / person per year over the past fifteen years (Source, CattleFax, 3/05).  A quarter share requires about 3 cubic feet of freezer space.

6) We take care of all the details for you, it is really simple. One customer said, "It's too simple."

5) You pick up your share of the beef at the meat plant about three weeks after delivery.

4) The meat plant processes, dry ages about 17 days, wraps, labels and freezes the meat  - we arrange all of this for you. A dry aging process is used, the same that is used for beef offered in upscale restaurants and gourmet food stores.

3) Upon delivery of the animal to the Meat Plant you assume ownership and pay us for the cost of your share of the live animal and you send a separate check to the processor.

2) We feed the animal for 5-6 months,  you contract with us to provide all services and deliver it to a Meat Plant for you - see order form.

1) Make a $50 deposit to get on our list (applied to purchase)

The Plan in a "Nutshell"

Sell Farm cattle and the resulting beef from them leave a very low carbon footprint! Our finished calves travel about 40 miles from the farm to the meat plant - compare this to cattle that produce generic beef which must travel thousands of miles from the home farm to the stocker farm, to the feed lot in western US and then to the meat plant.

Harvesting is conducted in Georgia Department of Agriculture inspected facility between Covington and McDonough. The type of inspection by this department is identical to that for USDA inspected facilities;  it is a State inspector who conducts the inspections for some of the USDA facilities in Georgia.

Our cattle are born on the farm and raised on pasture. At about 7 to 9 months of age they are started on grain while they continue to live on the pasture until harvested. They are provided the necessary supplements (year round minerals). These supplements, and our grain, are certified by the manufacturer not to contain any added antibiotics, ruminant derived proteins, or bovine derived bone meal ! We also DO NOT use growth promoting hormones!

Rainbow over Sell Farm Barns

Welcome to the land of happy cows!

Thank you for your interest in our locally raised Angus beef cattle.  Bill Farr and Elsa Sell are husband and wife. We live on our family farm in Pike County, Georgia with our dogs and our livestock. The Sell Farm was established in the early 1950s by Elsas Dad; it has been continuously involved in beef cattle production ever since. This will be our sixth year offering Angus beef directly from the farm.

Thank you for your interest in our locally raised Angus beef cattle.