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009: How A Digital Ad Executive Is Transforming Agriculture - Sam Moffett

The Nick Bare Podcast

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The Cost of Feedlot Cattle

We buy calves, and then we've got to get them up to a certain weight and then monetize that carcass. We probably average, I don't know exactly, but I'd say we average definitely sub 2 pound a day gain. And so, that naturally makes it more expensive to get there because the feedlot cattle might be getting butchered at 13, 14, 15 months, 16 months. Whereas we're targeting that 20 to 24 month time frame for a much smaller carcass than the feedlot's going to put out. So, that's why grass-fed beef is more expensive. Then you add on the fact that you've got all this risk with producing the

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