Diamond R Cattle, Independence, Kansas
1/8 beef, delivered 4 times to make up half a cow.
First deliveries ship February 2027. Pause, skip or cancel anytime.
The price
Four deliveries a year, $2,800. Shipping or local delivery is added to each delivery at checkout.
Why an eighth
Families in Florida, Colorado and Connecticut asked us for half a beef and could not take 215 pounds at once. A half needs a chest freezer and a whole afternoon. So we split it: an eighth of a beef, 50 pounds, four times a year. By the fourth delivery you have had half a beef, and it never overflowed the freezer.
Why "harvest"
Every delivery comes from one specific harvest. The animals go to our USDA inspected Kansas locker, hang about 16 days, get cut and frozen, and ship the same week. Nothing sits in a warehouse waiting for an order. That is the difference between this and a meat box.
What you get
This is our Diamond R Cut, the one most quarter and half families pick. A quarter makes two eighths. Everything on the quarter that splits evenly is in every delivery. The cuts a quarter only has one of, the brisket, the flank or skirt steak, the rump roast and the sirloin tip roast, take turns, so every delivery carries one of them and four deliveries add up to the half. Not custom cut.
| Cut | Each delivery | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| Ribeye | 3 steaks | 12 |
| New York strip (the Kansas City strip, same cut) | 2 steaks | 8 |
| Sirloin | 3 steaks | 12 |
| Filet | 2 steaks | 8 |
| Denver | 1 steak | 4 |
| Flat iron confirm Bronson pulls one per eighth alongside the chuck roast | 1 steak | 4 |
| Cube steak (minute steak, same cut) | 6 steaks | 24 |
| Chuck roast | 1 roast | 4 |
| Patties | 12 | 48 |
| Ground beef, 1 lb packs | 26 lb | 104 lb |
| Featured cut | Which deliveries | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| Brisket, point or flat, about 6 lb | 1st and 3rd | 2 (12 lb) |
| Flank or skirt steak, with a rump roast and a sirloin tip roast | 2nd and 4th | 2 of each |
| Packaged beef | 50 lb Marty confirms the pack-out clears 50 lb every time | 200 lb |
Weights are packaged, take-home beef, never hanging weight. 50 pounds is the number we pack to, never under. If a delivery comes in light, we make it up in the next one. confirm policy
How much beef is that
Fifty pounds every three months is about 17 pounds a month. For a family of four at a pound and a half a meal, that is roughly 33 beef dinners per delivery, nearly three a week, with steaks for the weekend and ground for the weeknights.
It takes about 1.5 cubic feet of freezer, which is the freezer on top of your refrigerator. A half beef at once needs about 8 cubic feet, a chest freezer. The Harvest Half does not.
How it works
Pick delivery to your door, or local delivery and ranch pickup if you are close.
Dry aged about 16 days at our Kansas locker, then cut, wrapped and frozen.
50 lb in two insulated boxes. Then again in three months.
Getting it to you
Each delivery is packed frozen in two insulated boxes confirm packing. We propose shipping Monday or Tuesday so a box never sits over a weekend proposed. In warm months it goes 2-day. In cold months it can go ground where that is safe. confirm months
| Where you are | How it arrives | Cost per delivery |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas City, Wichita, Tulsa, Joplin, Oklahoma City | Local delivery on our run, or pick up at the ranch in Independence | $[quote] delivery, $[quote] pickup confirm |
| Kansas and the surrounding states | FedEx 2Day or Home Delivery, two boxes | $[quote] confirm |
| Everywhere else in the lower 48 | FedEx or UPS 2-day service, two boxes confirm | $[quote] confirm |
Shipping is shown at checkout and charged with each delivery. We confirm your ship week when your animal goes to the locker, about three weeks ahead, and you can move it if the week does not work proposed. If anything arrives soft, tell us the day it lands and we make it right. confirm policy
The price
| Every delivery | |
|---|---|
| Packaged beef | 50 lb |
| Steaks (ribeye, New York strip, sirloin, filet, Denver, flat iron, cube) | 18 |
| Chuck roast | 1 |
| Patties | 12 |
| Ground beef, 1 lb packs | 26 lb |
| Featured cut of the harvest | 1 |
| Per delivery, every three months | $700 |
Four deliveries, $2,800, and you have had half a beef, delivered. Priced by the animal, not by the cut: the ribeyes and filets cost you the same per pound as the ground. The price is the same every delivery, charged when it ships. No deposit, no balance invoice. Shipping or local delivery is added at checkout.
How it is raised
Our cattle are raised on our own Kansas pasture and finished right here on corn and oats. Grass fed and grain finished. No added hormones. Raised without antibiotics. One ingredient.
The family
Fourth generation on Kansas ground, brand established 1998. Every animal is born, raised and finished on the ranch and processed at a USDA inspected Kansas locker. When you buy the Harvest Half, the money goes to a Kansas family, not to the four companies that process about 85 percent of the country's fed cattle.
Who this is for
Questions
From Diamond R, half a beef over a year is $2,800 on the Harvest Half: 50 pounds delivered four times, $700 each time, shipping added at checkout, and it fits the freezer you already have. If you have a chest freezer and can pick up at the ranch, we also sell half and quarter shares in one drop; see our Beef Shares page.
50 pounds packaged: 18 steaks, a chuck roast, 12 patties and 26 pounds of ground beef, plus one featured cut that takes turns (brisket, or flank or skirt steak with two more roasts). The full list is above.
About 1.5 cubic feet per delivery, which is the freezer on top of most refrigerators. Plan 1 cubic foot for every 35 to 40 pounds of beef.
No. The Harvest Half is one set list, cut the way our quarter is cut, so every delivery is the whole animal in proportion.
Yes, anytime, from your account. One thing to know: a skipped delivery means that harvest's eighth goes to someone else. There is no make-up box.
Every three months, timed to a harvest. We email your ship week when your animal goes to the locker, about three weeks ahead, and you can move it if the week does not work.
The boxes are packed to stay frozen through the day of delivery. Get them into the freezer the day they land. If anything arrives soft, tell us that day and we make it right. confirm policy
Ask when you reserve. confirm with Marty what the locker can add Add-ons like steaks and beef sticks could ride in the boxes. proposed
Reserve
1/8 beef, 50 pounds, $700 a delivery, every three months. Half a beef by this time next year.
Reserve your first deliveryReview note: how the reservation is charged (paid at checkout, or a $100 reservation credited to the first delivery) is still Herbert's call. The button does nothing on this draft.