Buying a Half Cow in Austin: Price, Pounds, and How It Works
What half an animal actually gets you, what ours costs, how much freezer you need, and how it reaches your door in Austin.
A half share from Long Road Ranch costs $3,250 and yields about 180–220 lbs of finished 100% grass-fed Wagyu beef — about $16.25 per pound, processing included. It's four of the eight units of one named steer raised in Georgetown, Texas, cut exactly the way you want it.
Quick facts
- Price
- $3,250 flat, one-time (or reserve with a deposit)
- Pounds
- 180–220 lbs
- Price per pound
- About $16.25/lb of finished beef
- Freezer space
- ~6–7 cu ft (7 cu ft chest freezer)
- What's included
- Steaks, ground beef, roasts, stew and fajita meat, brisket or short ribs, soup bones and pure Wagyu tallow.
- Processing
- USDA-inspected harvest, dry-aging, cutting, vacuum-sealing and freezing — included in the flat price.
- Service area
- We hand-deliver in Greater Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth, and ranch pickup in Georgetown is always available. We do not ship beef.
- Pickup
- Free at the ranch in Georgetown, TX.
- Timing
- Each steer lists its harvest date. Beef is dry-aged, cut and frozen, then delivered or picked up two to three weeks after harvest week.
- How to buy
- Claim a share on the Beef Shares page — a one-time purchase, no subscription.
- 100% Wagyu Beef
- Central Texas Ranch
- USDA Inspected
- No Hormones or Antibiotics
- One-Time Purchase · No Subscription
What a half beef actually is
We split every steer into eight units. A half is four of them — half of one specific, named animal raised on our pasture in Georgetown, not a mixed lot assembled at a warehouse.
A half is cut across the whole animal, so the proportions hold: you get the same share of ribeyes, tenderloin, ground, roasts and brisket the full steer yields. Nobody's eating your steaks while you get the shanks.
It's the size that changes how a household shops. Most families who take a half stop buying beef at the grocery store entirely for a year, which is really what the price is buying you.
What our half costs — and why the math is simpler
one-time, all in — or 25% down to reserve
- ~180–220 lbs of finished, packaged beef
- About $16.25 per pound of take-home meat
- Harvest, dry-aging, cut & wrap included
- Vacuum-sealed and frozen, no extra fees
- Custom cut sheet with our butcher
*before the second invoice
A half at 350 lbs hanging weight reads as $2,275 on the ad. Then the processor bills separately — kill fee, per-pound cut-and-wrap, vacuum sealing, extras for patties or cured cuts. And hanging weight isn't what goes in your freezer; after cutting and trimming you keep roughly 55–65% of it.
Run it all the way out and the honest number lands near ours. The difference is you knew ours before you paid.
Full breakdown on why our shares cost what they cost.
What's actually in a half
A typical half, packed and labeled. Your cut sheet sets the final mix — more ground instead of roasts, thicker steaks, brisket left whole for the smoker.
Typical yield — your custom cut sheet decides the final mix.
How much freezer do you need?
Plan on ~6–7 cu ft (7 cu ft chest freezer). Vacuum-sealed beef holds at 0°F for 12+ months without freezer burn, so there's no clock on eating it.
Half feeling like too much? A quarter needs about half the space, and all four sizes are on the available steers page.
How delivery works in the Austin metro
We drive it ourselves. Once your half is cut, sealed and frozen, it goes into insulated coolers at the ranch and into your hands — downtown, East Austin, Westlake, Circle C, Round Rock, Cedar Park, anywhere in the metro. No courier, no warehouse leg, nothing thawed and refrozen.
Delivery is a small flat fee shown at checkout, waived with any creator code. Pickup at the ranch in Georgetown is free. ZIP coverage is on our Austin beef delivery page.
Half cow questions, answered
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Claim half of the next steer.
$3,250, one time, processing included — or reserve it with 25% down. Eight units per animal, and they go.
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