Answering Your #1 Question

How is your beef raised? 

We spent the past weekend at the Ozark Homesteading Expo in Marshfield MO and this was the #1 question we got asked. 

It would probably be the first thing I asked too from a ranch if I was looking to buy meat. It is a very important question to ask and to know the answer too. 

So, I wanted to answer that question for you today. 

What we raise is naturally healthy, tasty, and tender beef. The way we do this is a bit of a nuanced area of raising beef. They are born here on the ranch from the mother cows that we rotationally graze through our pastures. Around 7months we wean the calves and move them to different pastures until they are about 12mo. Then they end up back with the mother herd once they are weaned enough. There they grow to about 800lbs, then we pull them to a different pasture and start adding alfalfa and non-gmo corn to their pasture 1x a day. 

Before we started selling beef to you, we always raised our own beef. When doing that we tested a few different “finishing” methods. One was all grass finished, and I hate to admit this, but it was HORRIBLE, in fact, so bad that we ended up feeding it to the dogs…

Another way was we essentially did a “feed lot” at the house and fed it hay and a corn gluten mix from the local feed mill. That beef was editable but had a off flavor that we didn’t like. 

Finally, after a lot of research I learned about DNA testing for tenderness, and that alfalfa and non-gmo grain was a flavor profile of beef a lot of people liked. 

So, we tested again! And that one was the winner. We choose corn as our non-gmo grain because it is grown locally to our area, therefore it doesn’t have to be trucked miles and miles just to get to the feed mill. We do non-gmo because it can’t be sprayed with glyphosate. 

This method also keeps the beef a consistent flavor throughout the year, which is important when you are investing in a better product. You don’t want to buy it then hate it because the flavor changed from last year. 

Our animals don’t get vaccines, hormones, or antibiotics. This is how we know they are naturally healthy. If they required vaccines or antibiotics to stay live, that would not be a sign of a healthy animal. Also, the rotational grazing keeps them from grazing grasses to the dirt where a lot of diseases live. There is also the benefit for the soil and the environment to not over graze. 

This was a 3 yr process of testing and researching before we even thought of offering it as a product to you. It was worth it though, our customers give us amazing reviews!  

Through our regenerative practices, DNA testing, and finishing methods, we are striving to provide you with quality meat that supports you in your health while making your meals more enjoyable. 

I hope this answers all your questions, it was the lack of transparency in commercial proteins that really drove us to start this business. If you ever have a question, please feel free to reach out and I will answer with complete transparency.

If you also interested in feeding your family healthy, tasty, and tender beef. Then I am so glad you found us, that is what we are here for. We have a few options left for our farm raised bulk beef deposits. Click this link to secure your families beef.