Farm Audit

Visit our farm if you are curious about how we care for the herd and pastures.  Public roads boarder two sides of the farm, so drive by inspections are possible any day of the year.  Please call ahead to make sure we are around…

Labels, certifications, what do they mean?

We advertise our beef herd as “Animal Welfare Approved” and “Certified Grassfed by AWG“, but what do these labels mean?  I don’t know about you, but when it comes to checking out claims, I turn to Consumer Reports.  In August 2015, Consumer Reports published a “Beef Report“:…

True Peace

In a recent post titled “Peaceful“, we related a story of a visitor to our farm.  After spending a little time with the herd our visitor mentioned “this is peaceful”.  We feel blessed to have the opportunity to work in God’s creation with our small…

Peaceful

“This is peaceful.” The phrase most spoken by a recent visitor to the cow herd here at DS Family Farm. Who was this visitor?  A young man from Omaha on a mission.  He is in High School and has lived a vegan lifestyle for the…

Portable fence through six foot tall grass?

Recently we shared the photo below of a white poly wire portable fence disappearing into a paddock full of 6 foot tall stockpile.  If you were wondering how in the world we get that done, we give some more info here. It is actually fairly simple, we…