Frequently Asked Questions
Intensive management means that we move the cattle frequently to new strips or paddocks of grass. This provides fresh forage, allows pastures to be grazed evenly, spreads manure, cuts down on fly and parasite pressure, and helps us capture the grass at it's highest energy stages. We use temporary electric poly wire fencing to move the animals around the farm. Moves vary in length, springtime when the grass is growing fast, moves are often daily. During the heat of summer, when grass is growing slower, we switch over to a more traditional rotational grazing, where paddocks are bigger and stays are about a week's time.
We like to think of our grain finishing process as somewhat of a hybrid model. All of the cattle stay on pasture the entirety of their lives, but the grain finished steers get to come to the pastures nearest the barn, where they are also fed a corn based feed, twice a day, delivered right to them. We grow and mix the feed ourselves, using non- gmo corn. The steers in our finishing program are the most pampered bovines we have!😊