Your exorbitant price came from 20 lbs. of jerky slice. It can run as high as $3/lb. here. What you have to understand is they process it with the normal cuts first (that is one price), then they slice those normal cuts into jerky slices (that is another extra price). You have to make jerky slices off of a good cut like a roast. After 20 lbs of jerky all you have left is trash for hamburger. To make a long story short, you are paying to have the same meat processed twice.

A lot of people have learned from this. Any extra cuts or sausage you have made is in addition to the normal processing fee.