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- The time has come to move the steers to new accommodations as they begin the finishing process, as we move them, we take a look at the grass fed vs grain fed and finished debate.
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Just a quick comment your video content is amazing your videography is absolutely professional. You’re living my dream life
Thank you very much - Mike
I really appreciate how you not only show what your doing. You explain it so none experienced inspiring farmers how it can be done
Thank you very much and thanks for ridding the country of zombies Rick ! - Mike
Glad to hear your tag line again! I’ve missed hearing “explore the ranch life & escape the ordinary”☺️ We LOVE escaping the ordinary with you!
I was a butcher for 5 years before switching careers and there is a lot that goes into producing the best tasting beef and I would say you are on top of it grain and a high quality grass/hay is the way to go. The questions I had was the kind of feed and maybe a picture of the label for the nutritional facts and what kind of grass or hay are you feeding that alfalfa or just pasture grass. Thanks Mike great stuff
Well dang, I was looking for a butcher to interview in the video, no one wanted to play along. lol We alternate between straight corn oats and barley and an accelerator that is 12% protein along with 2.5% crude fat and 14% fiber. The grass is an alfalfa mix. Thanks Andrew! - Mike
I bet your wife's step father would have loved for your family to move there a lot sooner than you did and spent a lot more time with you guys. Either way I'm sure he is looking down very proud of how you and the family is carrying on his legacy. Thank you for the video
I grew up on an average size little family farm in Georgia and I found that our predominantly grain fed (given the option of grain or grass) was actually way more tender and more flavorful we tried grass fed for two years and we revived negative feedback from our customers but love the videos you guys I’m glad someone is doing this much love and merry Christmas
On a halarious note, in an aquantarian (I only eat fish) because I'm illergic to beef pork paultry. and I have no problem watching these videos I love how educational they are, and I grew up on a chicken farm so it brings me back to the farm days.
Very interesting, Thank you very much for sharing - Mike
It's fun to see the guys kick up their heels and run around you in circles. Really enjoy watching your videos thanks for sharing
I want to compliment you on explaining the differences between corn fed and grass finished beef. You did it objectively and truthfully. We actually raise breeding stock for grass finished beef in southern Kentucky. My husband found your channel a few days ago, and now we both enjoy it. Kudos to your efforts to enlighten the public and consumers! We love the life, too, even at 70. We hope God gives us a few more years to take care of this small piece of His creation.
Thank you very much Cindy. We really try to be impartial. Honestly, I dont care what kind of beef you like as long as you are eating it. :) Thanks for watching - Mike
Mike-I think we are blessed to live in a country were we can choose how our beef is finished, folks like yourself and myself are afforded the opportunity to work hard and buy quality products like Ariat makes. This is another great video that does a great job explaining another part of how beef makes it a supper plate. What's more is I'm eating a hamburger and watching Alabama play Georgia for the National Championship. What an awesome country!
Haha, that is an awesome way to look at it. I think people get way to wrapped up into arguing their viewpoint, opinion or fact, that they forget to look at the bigger picture. Thank you! - Mike
Love your ethics. Animals all deserve respect. Thank you!
Thank you Tamara. And thanks for watching. -Mike
My favorite beef is grazed in the Mtns of Idaho then finished in a chopped silage field in the valley 🤤... just remember FAT stands for Flavor And Tenderness
The grass-fed beef I have had has been fabulous, but I admit I have never done a blind taste test. In any case Mike, I enjoy your channel and wish you nothing but the very best of success.
Thank you Ron - Mike
Thanks for the info I’m going to be finishing a steer and just wanted a quick video to answer a few questions.
Every one of your videos are top notch quality. Almost documentary style! So good and so informative!
Love your blog......as farmer in the Midwest for cow calves
And own several sections on western Nebraska grassland.....2.2 acres per cow calf....out west 22 acres
And if they have water....
Nothing beats corn fed finish...with some alfalfa and oats...
GREAT video! Very informative!!!!!
Thank the almighty god you didn't come on and just bash grass-fed beef the entire video. You laid out the differences and come to find out, they aren't they different.
Thanks for your integrity, please never change.
Love the grain finished meat. I think beef is the healthiest thing you can eat. Thank you to you and all the ranchers out there!
Ariat boots are great. I wear them daily and they are comfortable and durable. Another great thing, they are decently priced too. Another awesome video. I really enjoy watching the cows do their thing.
Thanks Thomas! - Mike
Our Wyoming Life Thank you for the informative video!
Youre welcome and thanks for watching! - Mike
I love learning, and you are doing a great job teaching us !
We always had our cattle on pasture. They came to the barn twice a day for grain. They were never on just a grain diet. Always tender and tasty
Thanks for the helpful information
Also depends on what grain they are fed to...there is a difference in taste from corn fed beef to barley fed beef
Very true, some cows are even given beer! Thanks for watching - Mike
Really? thats a first for me lol
www.blackmorewagyu.com/beer-and-massage-for-japanese-beef/
Northern farmer this does happen if a show steer quits eating pour a warm beer over the feed will make it get back to eating
Can you tell me the ration formula with percentage for feedlot fattening for finishing.
I think that’s the most honest approach I’ve heard so far on this topic thank you
Thank your for watching, we do appreciate it :) - Mike
Do you ever shine your boots? Do you use a conditioner on the boots? Maybe a boot care video in the future? Thanks for making these videos. They are appreciated .
I dont really shine them but I do use mink oil on them.Great idea Thanks - Mike
Mike, great video and great insight into grass VS grain. I agree that grain finishing beef does greatly enhance the flavor and tenderness of beef. I like that you feed a mixed grain and not straight corn. I have always felt that finishing beef on multi-grain seemed like a better idea....more nutrients as each grain has something that the others might be lacking on. A friend from my school years lived on his grand parent't Hereford beef farm, and his grandpa would finish the beef on corn, oats and barley....and would slip in some diced and dried sweet potatoes every few days. He grew his own grains and sweet potatoes and did his own mixing. He was very hands on with his beef herd and knew exactly what his beef cattle were getting. Best beef I have ever eaten.
Hi Mike. Those new boots look great. I am a fan of round toes and the roper heel. I have a pair that looks similar to yours but are Tony Lama's. Grain Feed! The only way to go from an old guy who helped do this 60 years ago. Take care.
Thanks Gene, Take it easy and thanks for watching! - Mike
When you say “no antibiotics” does that mean you don’t treat sick animals? I’m sure it means you DO treat them and take them to the salebarn or some other outlet when they are well. Please explain. Great video! Keep spreading the word of what farmers and ranchers do to feed the world. Thanks!
Must say that you doing a good job. In a easy way explaining. What it takes to produce food.
Thanks Helena, and thanks for watching! - Mike
I can definitely appreciate the Very ethical treatment of the animals that you use for food. I hope every ranch or farm will take note of that.
I have raised my own beef,pork.i have chickens for eggs and because they are cool to have running around.i don't have any grass for my cows this summer.weeds took over 95% of it.its hard when you don't have the land or resources to do it right.love you guys and my husband says that if we can find a way to get away from our farm and the other one we work on we might be able to come to farm to table dinner 2019.
Thank you very much Linsey - Mike
The main nutrition difference between the two is the omega 3 to 6 fat ratio. Something that can help be offset by eating a decent amount of fatty fish. But grass fed beef provides a better start with these fats.
Have U considered algae/spirulina in feed? I heard it was supposed to eventually be an option, but i don't know if that ever came to fruition.
The amount of Omega 3 in grass-fed beef is minute.
Couldnt agree more on the boots!
Liked the video Mike. All the times I have hauled cattle not once did I ever stopped to think about how they was fed. Needless to say this video was educational for sure. I will say one thing. The only thing I started to dislike about hauling cattle was hauling them to the packing house. Knowing I was the one taking them for their last ride and believe it or not they always sensed what was about to happen to them once we pulled into the parking lot at the packing house. Guess I have become to soft to do that. But don't mind hauling cattle off to pasture or out to a feedlot. Anyways I may haul them but I still learn a thing or two from your videos so thank you. FYI great looking boots. I wear nothing but Ariat boots as well. Thanks again Mike
Awesome, thanks Wayne I can totally understand being a softie. I'm one also! - Mike
Omg so funny in the farm life you also have discussions whit no end ,,,,
Great video super funny too.
Thanks
Very informative I like
Completely agree but I keep a grass fed beef in the freezer too so I can sell to any customer. We are doing the same things as you in SW ND on a smaller scale. Just run across your channel and enjoying your work. Thought we were the only crazy ones in this region. Thank you!
Thats actually a good idea to keep a couple just grass fed, trying to please the masses. Sometimes I think we are all crazy. Thanks David! - Mike
Thanks for that information. My butcher told me that once when I asked him about the beef he was selling. But I didn’t really understand “finished on grain”. Now I do. Geeze marketing is such a persuasive influence, it strikes again lol. Have a great day!
Just got done watching all your vids and love em! This one was also very informative, so thanks for that. We inherited our ranch that's been in the family for several generations, but the fence has got to be 100yrs old, so that's on our immediate to-do list. If you need episode suggestions, I'd love to hear your thoughts on fence types, cost/ft., and what works best for different animals and locations on the ranch.
Your boots look great. My last pair were Ariats, however I stepped into Double-H recently and never looked back. Being made in the USA was a huge plus! ;)
Keep up the good work!
Hello Jon, I've got a few fencing videos up there but thats a great idea! Thanks for watching! - Mike
I worked at a feedyard back in the 90s and we fed corn. The steers would come in around 700-800 pounds. We would feed them brome hay then introduce corn silage. As the fall went on then we would start putting in a little corn. By Christmas they would be on full feed. 23 pounds of corn and 7-8 pounds of silage with some hay mixed in. Most is the cattle came from Jackson Hole.
Wow, sounds like they turned out wonderful! - Mike
@@OurWyomingLife The old man was a cattle feeder for 50 years. One thing he truly enjoyed. He always fed around 5000-6000 head every winter. The feedyard, 10,000 head capacity, was in the hills so the cattle could lay down and stay out of the slop and mud when the spring thaw arrived. He had the perfect idea and setup when it came to feeding cattle.
Great video Mike we used to fatten steers but quit because prices were crap we finished them at 2 years in summer they were grass fed but finished for about 5 months on silage and grain mix.
wow, thanks James, sorry it didnt work out - Mike
What style of boots are those? I like the looks of them. I’ve been wearing the Ariat Workhog for years and won’t wear anything else, as far as brand goes. Keep up the great work Mike! It’s awesome that you are sharing how raising cattle really works and how hard we work to provide quality, nutritious and tasty food for people.
These are the Heritage Crepe boot, I've been wearing them all day and even out of the box they are pretty dang comfortable, once I get them broken in I'm sure they will be even better. Thanks alot for the nice words and of course for watching! - Mike
excellent job discussing the difference between grass and grain fed beef.
Thanks Pat and thanks for watching! - Mike
This video is the first video I liked
As an Iowa cattle producer we have our steers on grain from the day they start eating it in the creep. They have hay as a free choice but not main source of feed. Ours see grass on the pasture for 3-5 months but after that they are on dirt or concrete. Steer stuffer and go.. this is our operation not saying either is better just shedding light.
Totally makes sense, every operation is different. Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching! - Mike
Mike ; I love your videos , they are very informative .
Thank you James and thanks for watching - Mike
I buy 100% grass fed from a local farm where I am. I love the taste & seems to be easier to digest.
That is awesome! Thank you very much, we love supporting local farmers! Thank you again - Mike
I think the big piece of grass fed vs. grain fed comes from the consumer perceptions. When they are told by the media that grain fed is kept in a lot for most of their life and that grass fed is out in a pasture they like the sound of more room and green grass over a dry lot. If they were better informed on how the animals were raised and treated, like when you make that local farmer connection, then I think the debate becomes much less important. When you know where your food comes from and how it was grown people tend to prefer it over the mass produced grocery store brands even if it is slightly more expensive because they made a connection with it.
You are absolutely correct! And our beef is actually very comparably priced to grocery stores but produced in a much nicer way. Thanks for watching and have a great night! -Erin
he poured it out of a bag bought at the feed store....but its ok im retarded too
Well, I chewed through this awesome, informational video and enjoyed every grain fed bite.
Thank you Susan, glad you liked it :) - Mike
Mike, finishing with grain is what I did for year's, that is the way we liked it, and customers.
Take care.
Thanks Mark, and thanks for watching! - Mike
Good video. You are very well spoken and should be doing a weekly bit on the local TV station covering off the ranching/farm situation.
Well we dont have a local tv station but who knows what will happen. Thank you very much and thanks for watching! - Mike
thank you for your video. There is a difference in taste. The advertised hype is good for a small number of ranchers but not good for the cattle business.
Thanks Earl, I would agree but if you are buying beef you are buying beef and that makes me feel good, what annoys me is that more money and work goes into grain finishing and grass fed is more expensive. Its backwards. Thanks - Mike
Is it better for the cattle and the land though? Finishing on grain just so a steak will be a little more tender seems wasteful.
@@KFrost-fx7dt grass finished beef is more tender but it takes longer and more feed to finish then grass finished beef. Feed lots can finish beef faster and cheaper then open range grass finished.
@@787Earl I know. But grain requires a lot of land used for monoculture, whereas grazing land doesn't. Grain seems to be an issue for cattle, since they sometimes stop eating on it and just keel over and die. Feeding grain is a shortcut and I question whether it's worth it.
@@KFrost-fx7dt I grew up on a farm and ranch. I prefer consuming grass finished beef. I recognize the cost saving of feedlots and the better beef from smaller finishing herds
What about the issues of grain fed cattle eating GMO corn and soy and the issues with that. The GMO grain has a much highter lectin load and the GMO grain causes tumors in animals. You eat the GMO fed cattle you get what they ate and your body goes into the inflammation process. I raise my own beef and they are grass finished and wonderful in tenderness and flavor. But what do I know, since the huge companies selling all the BS are in control...
my personal favorite beef is galloway beef, i might be slightly biased as i live in the galloway region of scotland but hey its all good.
Best beef is a Hampshire lol
Good looking steers
Thanks Bode, they are nice and uniform this year. A good thing. - Mike
Good to know about all that with your vídeos iam new with my first cattle
Where I'm from (new Zealand) pretty much every beef farmer has %100 grass or grass with grass hay or silage fed animals, which often are prime beef with good marbling, I think grain fed VS grass fed depends lots on the climate, here we can grow grass year round and the breed of animal
The grass definitely makes a difference. I've had grass fed that tasted great, I've had some that tastes gamey. Thanks for that Glen, makes perfect sense! - Mike
Are they fed silage or haylage?
Hey Glen, you're full of sh!t, but since you're from NZ, which started out as both a religious and penal colony, i guess you can't help being a liar and a nut. I also spend a lot of time in china, recently they started importing american beef again, and even the chinese didn't like aussie or NZ beef when it was their only choice, i tried to eat it there and there was no difference between your beef and the chinese water buffalo.
Wow, G Man, that invective-filled ad-hominem attack was uncalled for and unnecessary. Are you afraid the facts are not really on your side?
Thanks for the valuable insight. I have this discussion with friends who fall for the hype of grass fed all the time. I don't eat a lot of steak but when I do I want something with flavor so give me grain fed any day. I find grass fed to taste like cardboard and is much tougher even a rare steak is a bit tough. But then I am very picky as we raised our own beef for personal consumption and I rarely go to a restaurant for a steak because it never measures up to what we raise. On another note thanks for what you do. You life is hard and you and your family sacrifice a lot to feed us. Bless you and thanks again.
Thank you very much! - Mike
Great video, learned a lot about western/european way of raising cattle from you. And you are absolutely right about the taste thing. Where I come from, most farmers raise their cattle on grass and brush, always have since centuries. As a result our cattle (zebu types like sahiwal, red sindhi) are leaner and smaller than the European types but we like how they taste as fat is not really prized in beef here ( for that we have fat tailed sheep, glorious taste).
Thank you for the great videos and taking us along from half a world away, you got a new subscriber :)
Thank you very much for watching, we appreciate it more than we could ever convey. :) - Mike
There is a difference between grass "fed" & grass "finished" . U cant grass finish cattle in winter . And rich grazing is needed to grass finish . So many cattle worldwide are "reared" on range grass but sent elsewhere to finish . As are most in USA . This about using natural resources to best effect . Loads of marginal land can rear cattle but not grow crops . Here in UK we have lots good grass growing areas but can still only finish cattle without extra feed June to Oct approx . Traditional butchers still say cattle fed barley to finish have better flavour .
Is the grain gmo free
Most corn is gmo with pesticdes
I like your videos and in now way want to come across as critical of your work but wanted to clear up a few things on the grass fed thing. You might be right about being able to finish the run of the mill cattle breeds on grass. It is harder to especially if you live in a lower elevation area that does not produce as high quality grass. If you live at higher elevation where the grass runs around 15-20% protein it can be done much easier but that is usually at 7,000 feet +. If you don't have the luxury of living at the elevation you can still get very high quality grass fed beef by using a different breed of cattle that are genetically suited for finishing on grass. An example would be South Poll which will finish just as nicely on grass as the other run of the mill cattle will finish on grain. The traditional run of the mill cattle have been bred up now to be only able to finish on grain. There are also ways of increasing the sugars in your grasses (= more finishing quality) by using rotational grazing and monitoring the health of your grasses. I am not talking about moving cattle to a new pasture every few weeks but I am talking about high intensity grazing where they move at least every day. There are also forages like red clover that will finish cattle nicely. If you use corn to finish there is the issue of cattle health. It is a proven fact that cattle are not designed to digest corn in a healthy manner. It destroys the gut function of cattle thus the need to vaccinate them and treat them with every imaginable medicine from the time they are young (for prevention) and when they get sick in the feedlot. You probably have less illness in the smaller setting you are finishing in but I doubt you could say that you get away without having to give some antibiotics at times to the cattle you are finishing. Many truly organic grass fed ranchers can actually say that they have never or very rarely have had to treat animals for illness. Maybe I am getting into the organic versus non organic but that is a part of the grass fed equation as well. The other point is that I live where they produce mass amounts of corn and I see the gallons upon gallons of pesticides and other very unhealthy concoctions that are placed on the fields. They are actually now starting to see the residue from some of those compounds showing up in the meat that is fed the corn that was treated with those products. I know I don't want to eat something like that. Perhaps you are not using corn or if you are it is organic and has not be fertilized with synthetic fertilizer or pesticides and other chemicals. If that is the case, more power to you. I will not even go into the whole GMO thing but I don't want to eat something fed GMO grains either. I know people will say those things that are allowable to be used on fields and animals have been permitted and proven by some government agency to be safe but when was the last time you wanted to trust everything the government tells you. These large producers of these chemicals have lobbyist that have a huge financial impact on government policy. No I am not a conspiracy freak but I would encourage people to take a good deep look at how our food industry works and judge for yourself.
Hey Russ, thanks for watching. I agree with you when you say you encourage people to do their own research into how our food industry works but I would also add that people should research both sides of an argument then make a decision. So many people go into discussions like these with a preconceived notion and looking for a bad guy or something similar.
First you said that I give antibiotics, I do not, and as I stated in the video I do not use antibiotics or growth hormones. I don't have time to address all the topics you brought up but I will address the grain issue, you said it destroys gut function, we have spoken with vets, other producers and botanists at the university.
The microbes in the rumen of a cow eating only forages are adapted to digesting primarily cellulose. IF this animal were to ingest a large amount of starch-containing feeds (much like you eating a large amount of candy on Halloween) it would be a shock to the system.
However, the microbes in the stomach have the ability to shift and adapt to digesting starch as a portion of the diet. Given an adjustment period - switching the animal’s diet from primarily forages to concentrates - the microbe population adjusts. The animal is able to utilize that energy more efficiently on a diet that includes high-energy feeds like cereal grains.
When this switch in diet is done rapidly, the pH (acid) of the rumen is disrupted, causing a condition called acidosis. This may be what many people refer to when claiming that feeding cattle corn makes them sick. This is something that cattle farmers and ranchers try to avoid. When it does occur, acidosis can be corrected by adding more forage to the diet and paying close attention to the transition in diet.
Corn does notmakeupp 100% of the diet. The diet of cattle is usually a mixture of many feeds, mixed in the correct proportions to give the animal what it needs for its stage of growth or production.
So to wrap it all up, yes cattle do eat corn, many other cereal grains. They love these feeds. Don’t believe me? They will run you over for it. These feeds are good for them as a great source of digestible energy for cattle growth, reproduction, weight gain, and any other metabolic processes.
Again thanks for watching - Mike
Thanks for sharing. I enjoy your videos. Also, I now have the words and knowledge to defend my beef products. Thank you and God bless you.
Good video mike
Thanks James, and thanks for watching- Mike
So 2 questions. I’ve never fully understood why grass fed is more costly? And how much grain do the cows need to reach Prime grade. That’s what I love. When I was at Whole Foods they went through a 5 step program and the farms they used had to be certified which was more costly to the farms raising the cattle so I understood the extra cost there. Still too much though.
Good questions. It does take longer to finish on grass but the input cost is way less than grain finished so you are paying for the name. Prime grade can different on the cow. But you will probably be on 3 to 5 lbs per day for a month or so. Thanks -Mike
Good for you sir!I like your videos.
Thank you very much and thanks for watching - Mike
We eat beef 4 times a week so we do head towards grass fed. But we can tell the difference between the grass and grain beef. Grain-fed has tastier
fat. Thanks for your videos we enjoy them.
Great explanation.
Thank you and thanks for watching! - Mike
Same with the Ariat (which is hard when you live next to Justin TX) ... best (and only) boots I wear!!
This is interesting because of something from my Navy days...
When I was assigned to the NATO base in Keflavik, Iceland, there was a very serious prohibition about removing any kind of meat from the base to "outside" the base in Icelandic territory. The base itself, obviously was in Iceland but any kind of meat product was forbidden to leave the base.
The reason for this was that the extremely vital sheep population on Iceland was very susceptible to being obliterated by any kind of meat interaction. IF you left the base, lets say with a hamburger, made from beef from the US, and you didn't finish it, then discarded it someplace in the wilds while touring around, AND a local lamb found it and ate it, the lamb could become deadly ill and spread it furiously to every lamb it came in contact with. The result was that it was possible that thousands of sheep could die from coming into contact with foreign meat. (This DID happen once when Iceland introduced a new breed of lamb into the country. In spite of a three-generation quarantine of the introduced lambs, once the "so-called" safe generation was introduced into the flocks they immediately started dying from some sort of illness. Icelandic sheep, never in contact with the outside world were notoriously famous for getting sick when introduced to "foreign" breeds of sheep.)
Meat on the base came from the United States. When you left the base and ate off base in Iceland, you normally ate Icelandic, bred and raised beef. This beef was totally grass fed. The result, for Americans who ate it, noticed that American, grain fed cattle tasted different from the grass fed cattle in Iceland. I, for one, (among others) noticed that the grass fed beef seemed a bit sweeter tasting than American grain fed cattle. Many of us commented about this.
The "sweeter" grass fed beef tasted very good but you did notice a bit of a different taste.
So that was my personal experience between the two types. Which is better??? -Can't possibly say. Only a professional rancher such as yourself can answer that!
Regards,
Ron
I cant even answer it, its totally up to the consumer, obviously people buy both. Thats really interesting though, I had never heard of that issue in Iceland but I can understand it. Keep in mind too that grass fed beef from different areas may taste completely different based on the elevation and the sugar content and nutrient content of the grass. Its more complicated than I will ever understand. lol Thanks Ron - Mike
About the elevation, sugar content etc.: -Yep! I saw types of grasses grow in Iceland that I never saw anywhere else so I am certain that it affects the grazing taste. (also, I saw strange little dandelions that I never saw before! Beautiful, tiny little blooms on the same greens as here!) Very interesting topic you presented here!
Regards,
Ron
Our Wyoming Life ii
I've enjoyed these few shows i've watched... My thought initially... America is big... branding grass vs. grain is in its infant state... Farmers get state pride and market as a unit from time to time... Meat markets, and dairy as well, don't play this nearly as well as say, wine or beer companies... Sure, you always hear about California or Wisconsin cheeses, but as you said in the video, the meat markets in the US are primarily in a quadrant system... the Japanese have their Kobe and quite a many folks have jumped on the Angus bandwagon, but I expect to see more breeds become household names and region specific raised herds reflecting their environment... I worked with a guy that said i should avoid eating pronghorn because it tasted too much like sage and juniper, but hey, sometimes that might taste good on a cracker, just for the novelty of the foodie experience...
On our farm we did the Pepsi challenge with grain vs grass, in my opinion the grain fed was far tastier than the grass fed, higher fat content does translate to more flavor. 😋
I totally agree, hope all is well, thanks for watching! - Mike
In one comparison at a restaurant I watched, the customers complained the grass fed steak were too chewy. As a result, many customers returned grass fed steak for grain fed. It seems the market for grass fed isn't there yet.
depends on the grass. typical grass on the typical ranch is a joke
I would really like to hear a discussion between you and Joel Salatin.
@@704406bbl Salatin would destroy him in less than 10 minutes.
Nice one.
AWESOME BLOSSOM 🌻
:) -Mike
Great informative video- I'm a new subscriber!
Thank you very much and thanks for watching - Mike
As the son of a cattle buyer, I always enjoyed good grain fed beef. Had it to the point where my brother asked if we could have something different besides beef
hahaha, thats how it is sometimes around here. - Mike
Great video. Thanks
Those are good looking steers
Thank you, they are really uniform that is good! Thanks for watching - Mike
Excellent
Thanks Joel! - Mike
Great video 👍. Thank you
And now...Wyoming Life. Brought to you by, Wyoming Life. My concern is chemicals in beef, eggs, milk, vegetables, all foods. It's the pisins that'll kill ye. Great Mike, not using hormones and that mess. We like buying local, which is about 2,000 miles from you. As a southeasterner, wow, that Wyoming landscape looks like desert to my old eyes! I heard a western rancher say that western grass has more nutrients than ours here, because it's more packed in. Ours get kind of washed out from so much rain. A heap of green grass, but goes through cattle like grapes through a goose's behind.
Mike, has your wife tried planting Juneberry bushes (Saskatoons up North) instead of blueberries? They are native to our range lands.
Just a couple of questions. Do you finish over 60 days regardless of their final weight? Or do you have a target weight? What is their live weight at slaughter? Also their carcus weight? What ratio of corn, oats, barley do you feed? Thanks for any answers.
Mike, I hope you'll do a video of the day you take those steers to the sale barn, and share the process with us. I'm really curious about how much profit per steer you'll make.
These steers will actually go to the processor, we will then bring back the meat with us and keep it here on the ranch to sell, but yes, you will be along for the ride! Thanks! - Mike
Appreciate the common sense and educated view on this subject.
To me beef is just beef. On the grill or inn the oven. It just taste good. Love the video.
I’m finishing my first steer. Do you divide the corn oats and barley evenly? Or is the ratio different?
Its a pretty even ratio. Thanks and good luck - Mike
thanks for the 30 by 30
What age do you start feeding grain and how long do you feed grain before butchering?. Do you feed whole or cracked corn? Thanks for the awesome video!!
I eat what I raise/grow . Pigs and cattle that i have are fed grains and grass as soon as they are weened! The end result is amazing!! Support your local farmer!!
We feed both grain and grass to our cattle.... We give them a bit of grain in the morning, we call it breakfast. It's not a lot, maybe a pound or 2 per head. And the rest of the day they graze the field. They all look healthy, no health issues and the calves they put out are complete beef cakes and grow fast. Looking at the cattle other people raise in the area, ours look far healthier. We have a jersey and a Holstein, both for personal house hold products, and there are others in the area that do the same, theirs look boney bag of skin, while ours look full and healthy muscular structure... We have found that what we do different is what some view as bad practice. We don't limit what our cattle eat. We give them a little grain, we bring in different bales of hay, and whatever they find to graze on in the field... We will see if ours is better when we slaughter next.
Texas A&M ranch management major next semester!
That is awesome, I visited A&M many years ago and loved the campus and College Station. Thanks John! - Mike
Does beef marbling increase with grass fed?
Less stress gives the meat more marbiling
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Excellent, excellent, excellent! What shots for health do you recommend? We just ordered our first herd!
Alot can depend on your area and climate. Definitely check in with a vet, he or she should be able to get you going in the right direction. Thanks for watching - Mike
How old are the steers when they go to slaughter? Also how long do u keep them on the grain before u take them to slaughter and how often and much do you increase the amounts? Thanks Mike. Great videos
They will be around 2 years old when they are ready to slaughter. We will finish them for about 90 days and their ration will increase usually every week, we really keep an eye on their manure to make sure they arent getting too much grains. Thanks for watching - Mike
I give my 2 1500 pound dairy steers 5 gallons of corn and oats mixed each day
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I totally agree! - Mike