99.9% Grass Fed

Our cows are 99.9% grass fed and finished. We don’t feed any grains. The cows graze from a diverse blend of grasses, forbs, and legumes. Additionally they have access to plenty of browse in the woods. Sometimes we choose to feed supplements to our animals. During the winter, we have periods where the quality of our forage isn’t good enough to meet the nutritional needs of our animals. When this is the case we have 2 options. We can purchase hay which is expensive and damages the soil if the ground is wet at all (often is the case here), or we can feed small amounts of nutritional supplements to make up for the nutrients that are missing in the forage. The purpose of supplementing is to give the animals just enough so that they can effectively utilize and digest the forages that we already have, but no more. These supplements contain soybean meal or cottonseed meal. They are fed in small quantities making up less than 10% of their daily diet for 1-3 months each year.