Salad Bar Beef

We move our cows every day to a fresh salad bar.





There's a lot of reasons why it's a good practice to make daily moves, we will just briefly go into a couple of them.



When cows are left on one big paddock continuously they naturally go after the more palatable species of grasses and forages and leave the unfavorable ones behind, this gives the unfavorable plants an unwanted head start on the preferred species, the preferred species then keep getting knocked down while the unfavorable ones are allowed to go to seed, thrive, and spread. As far as regrowth of preferred species, we would be working against ourselves and have precipitously declining quality of our pastures if we continuously grazed our cows.



Another point is that cows will graze and fill up in the coolest parts of the day, and then they will find a favored spot and piece of ground to spend the next part of the day to ruminate, lounge, and relax. Now, of course, they just spent the last four hours eating a giant breakfast and they lay down immediately to happily finish ruminating on their delectable meal, what do you think is the first thing they do when they get up after that and stretch? they manure right in their lounge area. Now there's often a lot of psychology that goes into the reason why they pick the spot they do, when available they will most often seek the top of a hill to use. Remember they still have a lot of survival tactics bred into them. They would only relax on the top of that hill over there because they could see oncoming predators easily. The point being, if we were to give them one big paddock for the whole summer and never move them, they would most often seek out that hilltop to lounge on every single day, no matter how messy it is from yesterdays manure, creating a big hygiene issue.



If we overgraze a pasture it weakens the grass which takes it more time to recover, get out of first gear, and start growing again. When we under graze and let the grass grow up into senescence it not only becomes inefficient but shades out new growth and stops that cycle.



When we allow the grass to stay in its natural rapid growth stage it can actually sequester more carbon that's been emitted into the atmosphere than trees can. Grassland managed properly can produce far more biomass than forest can, while sequestering more atmospheric carbon than forest.



So this daily move keeps them off of yesterdays manure and pathogen build-up keeping them cleaner and healthier, the daily move also gives the preferred grass species enough time to fully express themselves and encourages those grass species to come up again instead of keeping them weak and vulnerable by continuous grazing.



Having the cows mobbed up in a tighter daily paddock tends to more evenly flatten out the entire paddocks growth (good and bad species of grass all together) because whatever they don't eat they tend to trample into the ground which will just give our soil more organic matter in the future, creating more soil as well.



The way we manage our cows and pasture sequesters more carbon from the atmosphere and pulls it into the ground where it belongs. When grassland is properly managed this way with herbivores, we can actually sequester more carbon per acre with grass than with trees. So for anyone like us, concerned about carbon emissions and climate change, you should be eating more Salad Bar Beef.



This all makes for a healthier product for us, and for you and your family to enjoy, and that makes all the work worth it.



So when you buy our beef and raw milk this is what you are supporting! Soil building, atmospheric carbon-sequestering, healthy, happy cows.



That's regenerative farming, and that's the future.



This is simply inspiring to me, and I hope you will join us on our mission so together we can heal the planet, and make food that's worth eating.



Have you tried our delectable Grass-fed beef and 100% Grass-fed raw milk yet?