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…

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…

2017 Pasturegrazed Beef

We continue to learn and adapt to raising beef in nature’s image.  Our Animal Welfare Approved and Certified Grassfed beef are not pampered.  These steers were never separated from the rest of the herd and fed a high energy diet to lay on fat. …

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…

Cow Pie Testing

Viewer discretion advised, cow pies ahead! We all know cows communicate by mooing.  Cows also communicate through their “back-end”.  Note the caption under the cow pie photo above.  A “healthy looking” cow pie means the cows are healthy!  We, I mean Doug, spends a lot of time…