I work for a great company. They gave us a 6% inflation bump last year + the normal 2%. But not this year. And that has evaporated due to everything else taking a bigger bite now.
Outrageous processing fee!!
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AlabamaSwamper
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The more processors the state puts out of business there higher is going to get.
backyardtndeer
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Same here. I spend way too much time, amazes me how some say they can do a deer from field to freezer in .. minutes. I have hours into every deer, and I just don't seem to get any faster.
Also, as far as processing goes. I'll never understand how a hunter is so lazy they can't even field dress their own deer. The place I go to charges $30 to field dress, $60 if it's dropped off after hours. I would charge $100 to field dress just to take the lazy people's money.
My wife's deer they charged 65 for regular cut and that's adding pork fat and tenderizing the steaks.
Yep. I can't do it any faster. From the time I get the equipment set up, til everything is cleaned, sanitized, and put away, it's three hours for one deer.
It's just like driving from x to y. People always throw out ridiculous times to one up everyone else. Nobody believes that
. People always debate the fastest way to get from Memphis to Destin. I saw a discussion on Fakebook one time and some woman said I always go this way and it takes 5 and a half hours. I couldn't let that go. I said "it's 500 miles from Memphis to Destin. If you make it in 5 and a half hours you are averaging over 90 MPH and that's with no stops for gas or bathroom breaks." She still wouldn't admit she was full of it. She said "I'm just telling you how long it takes." Math is hard for some folks. 
Yeah I have no idea how folks do it fast AND a good job. I can't stand seeing meat on the carcass. When I'm done there's not much left for the buzzards. I also take my time to meticulously trim fat and connective tissue. It takes hours. Even when I'm peeling the hide I use a torch to burn off any hair and all the sticky underfat. I like clean, trim meat to pack away and that takes time.
Sent you a text buddy.
CliffordN
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So educate me, since I do my own when I even keep one... What do you get for the processing fee?
I do all my own. Its really simple. The only variable is temperature. Nice when its cold for a whileIf Flower's goes up more I'll be doing my own again. If I ever get one.
I drop my deer off and in return I get cuts that are well trimmed, vacuum packed, and labeled. Ground is packed in 3" tubes like if you bought ground meat at the grocery store. Pretty darn fair deal, IMO. Even though I process most of my own, I still drop a few off to the processor.
How long do you think it takes to do all that?
killingtime 41
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I've worked for 15 years. Made what use to be good money for this area. Now inflation has evaporated every bit of that. What most people don't understand is even if inflation go's to normal.prices don't come back to normal prices they stay inflated.
Exactly. Competition or supply and demand is the only thing that will drive prices down. Ammo and reloading supplies is an example. They will come down…. eventually.
Just paid $200 per deer & $90 caping fee in NE. Basic steaks, backstrap & burger, they don't tenderize either. Had 3 of them done. Could have done ourselves but with ranch 50 miles from the Airbnb we were staying in, it was more convenient to have them do & freeze.
