No Corn, No Soy, No GMO

Of course our Pasture Grazed (Certified Grassfed) Beef is raised without corn or soybeans and GMOs are not an issue.  When it comes to chicken, well they need more than grass and forages.  Cattle are herbivores, chickens are omnivores.  Over the 9 years we have raised pasture chickens, all have been raised with Non-GMO feed.

Why No Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) in feed?  Pretty simple:

• Customer Demand

It was easy to find GMO free feed with just a little extra work.  We also heard there was customer demand for chickens raised without Soybean feed.  When we asked for soybean free feed, well that was a little more difficult because soybeans are a cheap source of protein.

Why No Soybean in feed?

• Lots of reading on the soy issue at the Weston A Price Foundation website:
  • WAPF – Soybean search, many articles

This past spring we decided to develop our own soy free feed.  Just as we started to figure out how to drop soy, a potential customer messaged us asking if we had chickens raised without corn in the feed!

Why No Corn in feed?

• Customer Demand?
• Because we like a challenge?
• Everything has corn in it!  Why not grow something without corn!

We fed the spring batch of chickens with typical feed that included soybean & corn and then fed our own corn and soy free feed part-time.  The chickens did fine and yes, the taste was fabulous according to our customers.

With the extensive use of GMOs in our nation’s corn and soybean crops, it seems that even if you source GMO free corn or soybeans, there is probably some cross contamination?  To truly be GMO free, it just makes sense to eliminate both Soy and Corn from the feed mix.  As for the overall GMO debate, you might be interested in GMOs and “The Precautionary Principle” website or (PDF).

2018 Fall Pasture Poultry will be corn, soybean and GMO free. 

What will these birds taste like?

Why did we say “Pasture Poultry” and not pastured chickens?  Stop by the farm and check out our latest adventure…