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Grassfed Beef 
Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 00:52:10 AM PDT
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I received the Aug-Sept 2009 issue of ATTRA News, which is the "Newsletter of the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: A project of the national Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)" the other day.
This month's issue is dedicated to "Pasture-Based Beef and Dairy Production", ie it's talking about Grass-fed beef.
ATTRA News is intended to educate farmers and other interested persons about sustainable agriculture. This issue includes an article about grass-fed labeling and another comparing the various standards for meat production of grassfed beef.
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Wed Jun 10, 2009 at 00:26:24 AM PDT
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Whoa... read this:
Grass and other perennial plants may be just what the doctor ordered for farmers facing the uncertainties of climate change. And beef and dairy products from free-ranging, grass-fed cattle--along with legumes and grains grown in addition to grass--may be just what the doctor ordered for consumers.
That's the "post-oil agriculture" vision portrayed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and other participants at the Farming with Grass Conference held in Oklahoma in 2008.
Would you believe that that is advice from the USDA??? They are promoting an online book called "Farming With Grass" and the description of it given on their site is simply too good to be true.
[The authors] explain that perennial plants, in diverse agricultural systems, have great potential to enhance resilience against uncertain climate and market conditions.
[Two of the authors] are in the second year of a 5-year study to develop a system to produce grass-fed beef for the southern Great Plains... [USDA] ARS scientists... are also looking for innovative ways to include grazing cattle in economically diverse farming systems.
In summarizing stories from the conference, participants envisioned mixed livestock, perennial plants, and other crops, instead of large stands of a single-row crop monoculture. The goal is to sustain farms and rural communities both economically and environmentally, while offering local, healthy foods and other new products.
Just...wow.
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Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 13:09:21 PM PDT
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(Soooo cool! - promoted by Jill Richardson)
Yesterday I traveled fifty miles down Highway Seventeen and spent part of my day with Joe Morris and his grass fed cows in Watsonville, California. It was gorgeous, and such a refreshing experience! In golf we have a saying, Keep It Simple Stupid. Joe Morris and Morris Grassfed Beef keep it simple.
Though that doesn't seem novel on first glance, in today's industrial-fed America, it is. But, don't confuse simple with easy. Corn-fed beef is easy, profit is their only concern.
Simple is raising cows the way it's sustainably been done for centuries. Morris uses a holistic approach that considers more than profit. They're focused on what's best for: the cows, the environment, community, the health of the consumer, and the grass.
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