IS ‘GRASS-BASED’

For links to sites with more information on the benefits and details of grass as food for livestock, click: GRASSFED

Cattle are ruminants, so their digestions work best on fresh grass and dry hay. The result is meat that is very different from grain-finished beef (less likely to have E. coli O57:H7 in the gut, for instance). To keep our calves growing through the cold of Saskatchewan winters they need some grain, but their main diet both in summer and winter is forage from our farms, mainly timothy & alfalfa. All those dandelions make good feed, too. The cattle never see a livestock semi-trailer transport, much less the grain-rich feed that a commercial feedlot routinely serves.