To many farmers livestock are almost like a crop - it’s about making money. Yes, I have lived on a farm my whole life, but I am very emotional about animals and believe they have feelings and can suffer. It's important to me that they not be stressed or scared. Transporting an animal and changing its environment will always stress it out. Imagine being taken from your home and dropped off at a kill center (that’s how I look at it). It is very important to me to make sure the animals raised on this farm are treated the very best all the way up until the very end. I believe every living creature deserves to be respected and treated humanely, and even more so if they are giving their lives so we can eat.

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If you are trying to decide whether or not to buy from a local farmer instead of from the grocery store, here are factors to consider:

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• Locally-raised beef is always more humanely-raised beef. When you buy from Belmont Farm you know where your meat is coming from, and you know that I love animals. Any animal being raised here is taken care of. They are fed well, have clean bedding, have fresh clean water, get treats, and in general we do our best to spoil them!
   

• Our animals are transported early in the morning and taken right to a farm/processing center in Hagerstown to be processed. Within an hour of being dropped off our animals are humanely killed. Many places are not like this. Unfortunately many farmers will choose the closest processing center to them and will drop the animals off the day before. This means that the animal is left in a concrete holding area for that day, a whole night and part of another day.
   

• When you buy from us you are paying $9.26 per lb for filet mignon which is now $25.99 a pound in the grocery store. You are also paying $9.26 per lb for Rib-Eye steaks which is priced around $20.99 per pound in the grocery store, and you pay $9.26 per lb for New York Strip steaks which is priced around $19.99 per pound in the grocery store. Even a cheaper cut of meat like sirloin steak will cost you around $13.99 per pound in he grocery store. Buying from us you are saving more then $4.00 a pound on sirloin steak, saving more then $10.00 a pound on New York Strip steak, saving more then $11.00 per pound on Rib-Eye Steaks. There is a huge savings in buying in bulk. And buying from us you are not only saving money but you are helping small farmers stay in business. You are helping to end the suffering of factory farmed animals and you are feeding your family with a much healthier meats.