Pasture Raised, Grain Finished

Pasture Raised - Grain Finished.

If you watched our stories on Facebook and Instagram this week, you saw us make a family trip with our boys to pick up minerals and grain for our calves and steers.

We make the most of these trips as a way to spend time as a family; our boys LOVE riding in Daddy’s big farm truck. There’s just something really cool about getting in that big diesel and going on a mission. It might also be a thing that Daddy found a Mike n’ Ike dispenser at the feed mill. Anyway - one never knows!

We make a trip to the Ag Partners feed mill a couple times a month to pick up the grain and mineral part of our herd’s diet.

The calves get a mineral mixture that’s like an amazing kid’s vitamin to supplement Mama’s milk. Besides getting a boost of protein (to take some pressure off of Mama), they are getting supplemented with: calcium, phosphorus, salt, crude fat, crude fiber, salt, magnesium, potassium, selenium, zinc, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin E, and thiamine. Building blocks for a growing little calf body!

Our steers get a grain and mineral mixture. When we say “Pasture raised, grain finished”, this is the grain part. They get all the yummy vitamins plus a balanced mixture of grains. This adds the wonderful marbling to the beef that makes it juicy and flavorful.

Everything we feed to our herd has been set up by our herd nutritionist. He visits our farm throughout the year to check on them and make diet recommendations as we rotate through the seasons.

There is so much science that goes in to farming and raising animals, and we certainly are thankful for experts like our Ag Partners nutritionist who help us raise a thriving and healthy herd.