Blue Yonder Farms

Blue Yonder Farms A small homestead in Lake of the Ozarks.

Call it an estate sale or yard sale or whatever you want. We’re moving for work and taking very little with us.
02/04/2026

Call it an estate sale or yard sale or whatever you want. We’re moving for work and taking very little with us.

Got plenty of meat to go around for anyone interested. Organic, free range, no soy, no corn, no antibiotics. It doesn’t ...
02/01/2026

Got plenty of meat to go around for anyone interested. Organic, free range, no soy, no corn, no antibiotics. It doesn’t get better than this. Beef, chicken, duck, emu, lamb, and goose. We can ship most of it in MO, a lot of it nation-wide. A handful are only available on the farm directly.

1 emu’s worth of refined emu oil.
02/01/2026

1 emu’s worth of refined emu oil.

Ducks and a few geese looking for new friends and spaces. DM if you’re interested and around LoZ
01/20/2026

Ducks and a few geese looking for new friends and spaces. DM if you’re interested and around LoZ

Fullblood boer goat, bought for breeding, but needs a new home.
01/20/2026

Fullblood boer goat, bought for breeding, but needs a new home.

2 female Emu ready to start laying in the spring looking for new homes.
01/20/2026

2 female Emu ready to start laying in the spring looking for new homes.

My new business profile picture 🙂
11/21/2025

My new business profile picture 🙂

11/21/2025

As a small farm we don’t get discounts on feed, or equipment to make life easier. Everything is earned the hard way with my own two hands. Even grass fed, feeding a cow gets expensive fast. Just to make it harder, grass/hay fed only doesn’t really optimize what an animal can do. It’s just one jab after another trying to make it all work 🤣

Full size she weighed 646 going to processing. We got 241 lbs of meat, and 1 bull calf.

Let’s do some math.

Initial cost: $3200 (1 yr old heifer, pure bred wagyu, bred)
Transportation: $300
Fencing: $800
Feed for 16 months: $1300
Processing: $454

Total cost: $6054

$5600/241 lbs = $25.12/lb

Suggested retail cost after markup: $35.16/lb

😭 that’s math that makes me want to cry. At least I got some tbones I guess 🙃

Got an Emu (not the one pictured) processed at Special D processing in Macon, MO (the only USDA inspected Emu facility i...
10/23/2025

Got an Emu (not the one pictured) processed at Special D processing in Macon, MO (the only USDA inspected Emu facility in MO). I believe transparency in business is the only ethical way to operate. Plus, the more open we are about finances, costs, margins, etc. the more we all learn and grow together. Being a small farm isn’t 1 man against the world. We’re a community and we are all together competing against the corporate farms that want to gobble up our land.

So let’s do some math 🙂
Emu: $600
Transport: $200
Processing: $250
Feed: $50 (held short-term)
Time and labor: $0 (because F me right?🤷‍♂️)

Total cost farm -> freezer: $1100

Total yield: 30 lbs of meat (mostly ground, very few steaks)

Cost/lb to me, the farmer: $36.66

Suggested retail price: $54.99/lb (avg. retail markup)

Taste: The leanest piece of beef you ever had. If I didn’t know better I would have thought I was eating a regular hamburger.

Is it worth it?: Yeah, I’d do it again. Next time I want to try to get like a Emu drumstick so I can cook it and eat it like a caveman.

It’s expensive to be a small farm. You get all the work, none of the discounts, and usually the work is harder because you don’t have the expensive toys that makes everything easier.

Well, that’s a whole Emu all done and tasting great … 33 lb of meat, and it only cost me a small fortune. It’s USDA insp...
10/05/2025

Well, that’s a whole Emu all done and tasting great … 33 lb of meat, and it only cost me a small fortune. It’s USDA inspected and ready to go.

Just had a few lbs on the grill for the family, and it was delicious … it really tastes like the leanest beef you’ve ever had. I’d 100% do it again, even though it was the most expensive animal I’ve done just going farm -> freezer

Unfortunatey the fat was forgotten at pick-up, so I’ll have to make a special trip back to make Emu oil.

To anyone who has tried to come out, I apologize; I’ve started my winter job and have no availability to be open regular...
10/05/2025

To anyone who has tried to come out, I apologize; I’ve started my winter job and have no availability to be open regularly.

Please message me if you want to set up a time to come by and get meat though. The Emu is processed and in the freezer, and we are taking in the Wagyu beef here in a couple weeks. Plenty of goat, duck, goose, and chicken too.

Pictured is Eddie, the 300+ lb buck that’s going to sire my next kids. He’s not my goat, but it’s worth the $200 stud fee to have his lineage in next spring’s kids. He’s a great size, placed top 10 at nationals, top selling buck at the Heartland Showcase Boer Goat sale, bearded, perfect coloring, thick furred, nice horns … you can’t ask for a better goat really 🤷‍♂️

It’s still a long way from the vision of what we want for a store front, but it’s progress. Next thing is to get some 4x...
08/30/2025

It’s still a long way from the vision of what we want for a store front, but it’s progress. Next thing is to get some 4x4’s and make a door that opens/closes properly … and more painting.

Some people think I’m crazy. That it’s all too much work and cost for someone with limited resources. But I believe you’ll never make it if you don’t try.

Running your own business, especially a farm related business, is tough; it’s scary; it’s a risk. However, with hard work and dedication it can be great.

In 5 years this whole endeavor will be completely transformed. Like a butterfly.

Just wish I wasn’t the only one working towards that vision or that I had better equipment than just my own two hands 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙃💪 🙂

Address

Sunrise Beach, MO
65079

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 7pm
Tuesday 9am - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 7pm

Telephone

(573) 837-6150

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