We have expanded our garden patches a bit since 2010, but we still have almost half and acre that's just trees, grass, and wildflowers. A few patches towards the back that are wild life cover areas.
Our beef prices are so expensive compared to other meats that we don't eat it very often. The cheapest has been poultry;Turkey which has been right around a buck a lb. all year, and Chicken around 80 cents per lb. We are probably going to go back to buying beef directly from the local farmer next year.
We buy eggs and milk from the farm, but our milk supplier got older and sold his herd, so we have to find another.
Your climate sounds very challenging for farming and ranching. My grandpa had a small dairy herd, and I used to help milk the cows by hand when I was a youngster. We had fresh milk every day to drink and the rest he sold to one of the large outfits that pasteurized it and distributed it to the grocery stores.
We do not sell meat. I have a neighbor who has in the past. Not sure how he markets it. His family has been here as long as mine, we are close.
We sell Certified “Duster” (OSU Variety) Hard Red Winter Wheat in bulk. We no longer sell bagged seed, because of the labor cost and time to process it. We are strictly a local operation.
We have grown other varieties of wheat, but currently only have the single variety. We harvested no seed in 2014 because of the drought. When what we have on hand is gone, we will be out until this summer. We begin the process with Foundation seed and produce Registered seed for our own use. We plant the registered seed and produce Certified which we sell directly to the farmers. This way we have total control on production and processing. We don’t farm out any of the process. We have our own storage and processing (cleaning & treating) facility on the farm. Sell across our own truck scales.