@sickburnbro Well funny, my friend is a farmer and sold me a half-side of beef five days ago. Here is the cost breakdown:

Steer 1182 lbs. Hanging Weight 631 lbs.
The processing price for the entire steer was $647.00
Animal price is 1182 x 2.05 = $2423.10

So in today's market in the rural area I'm in it's 25% of the animal price not 10%. I'm not arguing but this was this week so about as accurate as you're going to get.