We feed suet to the birds that come to our yard. I remember when butchers gave suet away. I remember when it was shrunk-wrapped by store butchers and sold for about a buck and a half a pound. I remember thinking that was robbery, and wishing they had never figured out that people would pay for it. And now, it's vacuum wrapped in industrial plastic, at the packing plant no doubt, and priced at $2.59 a pound retail. $2.59!! I bought store suet the other day only because I had run out of the supply I get from a small-town butcher to our west. His price is $10 for a grocery sack filled to the top. You have to cut the kidneys out of it, but I'm happy to do that. Suet, if you didn't know, surrounds the kidneys of cattle. I've never watched a cow being butchered. I'd like to see the suet before it's removed because there certainly is a lot of it. One cow doesn't produce as many preferred steaks and roasts as I thought, but it does offer a generous amount of suet and hamburger. We've bought beef in bulk, half or all of the animal. We ask for steaks, roasts, and ribs, with everything else plus scraps ground for hamburger. Last time we did this we came home with 115 pounds of hamburger. I believe we had four good-sized boxes packed with the edible reduction of one animal. We also had four boxes of the same size packed with suet. We were giving it away at the time, no room in the freezer for this now very valuable commodity. The day that butchers and packing plants figured out that suet could be sold was the day when a cow grew substantially in value. Yesterday, a friend who lives near the sensible butcher brought me about 30 pounds of suet, price $15. Made my day.