2020 Grassfed beef

Harvest time has arrived. It just makes sense that the best time to harvest Certified Grassfed Beef is from pasture, with green forages, near the end of the growing season. Our pastures are predominantly warm-seasons grasses and as August comes to a close, our growing season is 90% complete. The herd has spent all summer putting on fat for the upcoming winter.

What makes sense, according to natural cycles, is backed up by science. We have written extensively about healthy fats in previous blog posts and documented our results by lab testing the fatty acid profile of our beef. Wherever you see green (grass, leaves, chlorophyll) you are are looking at Omega 3 fats. Omega 3 fats are the most abundant fats in nature BUT they are also highly perishable. These fats are lost once the plant dies (cut for hay). In addition, Omega 3 fats do not persist long within the animal. So to capture these Omega 3 fats in the beef we provide our customers, now is our primary harvest time.

2020 Pasture Grazed Beef Photos

Below are a few photos of beeves that will be harvested in 2020. We are happy with how these animals look. Vibrant, healthy and showing good “grass fat” cover. Remember, these animals have never been fed an ounce of grain. By the way, do you know they can’t digest grass either? The billions of microbes in their gut do the work to convert inedible green forages and into fatty acids that build and maintain the animal. This unique process creates healthy animals and meat that our customers consume. God’s design is simply amazing.

Note the horizontal lines across the gut of this animal, we call those “happy lines”. Defines good grass fat cover on a happy animal.
Note the smooth cover over the top of the animal across the back hip bones. A small framed 2+ year old 100% grass fed steer.
Note the vertical lines (folds) from the neck back over the shoulders. Indicates a supple hide with adequate fat cover. This animal also shows horizontal “happy lines” over the gut. (Big bluestem grass with seed heads in foreground)
Healthy looking (bright eyed) animal. Horizontal happy lines over gut. Smooth cover over rump. Skin folds on neck and shoulders. A nice small framed, grass fed 2+ year old steer.

If you are interested in trying some local pasture grazed/grassfed beef, check out our Beef Bundle Info web page. This is your opportunity to take home this unique product. Beef (especially pasture-fed) is a wise choice according to the wisest man of all times. King Solomon’s Daily Provisions:

22 Solomon’s daily provisions were thirty cors of the finest flour and sixty cors of meal, 23 ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl. 

1 Kings Chapter 4 (www.biblegateway.com)