Oak Barn Beef: Five Year Anniversary!

dbCooper

I've been buying from Hannah since she started her business.  Back then I'd meet her in the parking lot of the Ag. College to do a deal.  Later on she even delivered directly to my front door a few times.  Never a disappointment, just always a fabulous product.  If interested, a brief history of her biz is below.  To me it's a impressive story.

At the bottom of her email there are a couple ways to win free beef.

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A look down Memory Lane...

Oak Barn Beef began five years ago when Hannah (me) decided that I wanted to help put a face to the farmer and share the high-quality beef that my family had been raising for generations.

The Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln encouraged me as a sophomore in college to start my own business. Their support and mentorship were unmatched and Oak Barn Beef wouldn't be here without them!   Learn more about Engler by clicking here.

I was also very lucky to have the opportunity to intern and learn from Five Marys Farms in California in the summer of 2018. I learned so much about running a farm-to-table business and shipping a perishable product! Thank you to Five Marys Farm for all you taught me!

Oak Barn Beef's first shipment!!   We've learned so much along the way!

In 2020, after graduating from college, Eric & I moved Oak Barn Beef to Eric's hometown of West Point, Nebraska, and began planting our roots here.

Since then, we've been able to ship to customers in all 50 states each year! We ship once each week on Monday.

And now since January 2023, we get to serve customers online AND in person at our retail shop in West Point!

None of this would be possible without you!   Thank you, thank you, thank you - to all of our customers and supporters who have been with us on this journey. We've learned so much a long the way, and we look forward to getting to continue to serve our customers the best we can! Did You Miss This!? We are giving away a half of beef to celebrate our half a decade in business! Actually, we are giving away two Quarter of Beef Packages, but that equates to half of a beef. You can enter to win these from now until 5/7/23 at 11:59 AM CST - We will do the drawing via Facebook Live on 5/7/23 at 7:00 PM CST. How do I enter to win? Purchase one of the 5-Year Special Beef Box and receive 10 entries into the drawing. You will receive an additional 10 entries for every 5-Year Special Beef Box that you purchase. Share & comment (you must comment after you share) on our Facebook Post or Instagram Post to receive 3 entries. Learn More

lousubcap

@dbCooper Inspiring story about being focused and making the goal reality. 

I just ordered a couple of boneless rib eye steaks. Shipping was very reasonable for a small business.

Since I don't do Bookface or Instagram I must pass on the contest. 

I enjoy trying out new sources of beef recommended thru the forum rabbit hole.  I am sure the steaks will be great.  Thanks for the post. 

ColtsFan

Nice! I just ordered Tri-tip and skirt steaks. 

loco_engr

I've ordered from her a few times and on 1 of the orders the website totally messed my order total in my favor. I noticed the error and sent her the difference. She called me personally and thanked me.
Felt good to do the right thing

lousubcap

They are on it-got a shipment email at around 8:10 AM (EDT) today.  Definitely a personalized connection.  Looking forward to the initial cook. 

lousubcap

Beef landed around an hour ago.  Frozen solid.  Will test run in around a week and let all know.  

ColtsFan

Did a skirt steak tonight. Didn’t suck

lousubcap

As promised-the Oak Barn boneless rib eye  ( 1.2 lb) made it's debut:

Some cook pics and then my take: Reverse seared to around the low 120's *F

then the caveman finish-

Standing tall for the low&slow-

On the hot side right here-

The requisite $$$$ shot-

It had a very enjoyable beef flavour (nod) and was quite tender.  I have one more to cook but on a single data point I will order again. 

Thanks @dbCooper for the steer. 

alaskanassasin

https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/business-inputs/article/2023/04/28/building-something-better-beef

lousubcap

Thanks for the article @alaskanassasin. 

dbCooper

@lousubcap - "for the steer". Nice!

Thanks @alaskanassasin good read there.

alaskanassasin

lousubcap said:

Thanks for the article @alaskanassasin. 

 Yeah that Don Close seems like a real shill for big cattle.  Awe isn't that cute small little cattle producers selling direct to customers, small producers and processors are niche and will never make it or feed America, and are unsafe.

 This attitude grates on me, yes there will actually be a better product raised and more humanly, also these outfits provide jobs to small towns and bring in commerce and pump money into rural economies.    

shtgunal3

Thanks for the post @dbCooper just placed an order.

alaskanassasin

This is the way!!

https://www.tpr.org/news/2023-04-17/more-than-18-000-cows-are-dead-after-dairy-farm-explosion-in-texas-panhandle

Elijah

I ordered the celebration box. It was supposed to arrive on Wednesday and I didn't get it until late Friday. The dry ice was gone, but everything was still solid. It looked like good product. The shipping was cheap. For a shipped product, as long as it's good quality, I'll probably do it again. 

ksmyrl

Just ordered some steaks and other cuts. LOVE the story, thanks for posting.

dbCooper

Today, we loaded the Beagles into the Impala and headed up to OBB World Headquarters in beautiful West Point, NE.  Scored some great beef enjoyed a nice day trip.

lousubcap

For those of you looking for a new source of great beef, here is a link-

The beef is great, especially for the price point, shipping is good and it's a growing business.

What's not to like...

linked here-

https://oakbarnbeef.com

Ybabpmuts

I buy local.beef, mostly because my cousin and chief beef inspector, is a heifer, so she can spot the heifers that we're not related to, and those are the ones we shoot all willy nilly like

dbCooper

For those that purchase beef from Hannah, this might interest you, 20 minute interview with the SBA . . .

"Oak Barn Beef's Hannah Klitz | Winning Business: Resilient Stories of U.S. Small Business Owners"

https://youtu.be/mA-QPYOyVRI