Overview Worth A View

We urge you to take four minutes to watch “NRCS: Pasture Management“.  It really does a nice job describing some activities we practice here at DS Family Farm.  These practices work for both pasture health and animal health and ultimately your health! The depiction…

Graze or Browse the Leaf Drop?

We all enjoy the beauty of trees in fall colors.  What does this season change mean for the land and animals?  What is nature doing?  How would large herbivores such as buffalo respond to the annual leaf drop?  These are the questions to think…

Pesky Bugs on the Inside

We are not talking about that fly in your house!  What about those bugs that live inside our cattle? Prior to becoming Animal Welfare Approved, we didn’t think much about the bugs inside our cows.  We had heard about using a microscope to check…

The Factory on our Farm

Raising Pasture Grazed grassfed beef from conception to table is not an easy task.  We may have four different animal classes in our herd at any one time.  But it all starts with the COW, the factory on our farm! We make our cows…

Weird Beef

Unfortunately, our beef is not normal. Looking at a “normal distribution” of HOW all beef is raised in our country, we are definitely weird! Normal is for the masses, we like being weird!  No status quo around here.  Actually, if you look at the…