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@DrCarolLow @CaryKelly11 Nope, you can feed chopped grass or baled hay in a feedlot and by grass fed

@660ag @CaryKelly11 I think it does. No animal in a feedlot is finished on grass.

All of these options can be the foundation of a healthy diet. I came all the way back from depression, chronic inflammation and obesity on feedlot beef. But it's only fair to understand exactly what you are paying for and to buy beef that you enjoy eating. That's a big part of sustainability.

@TapRootsFood @ElkinsCattleCo @BrasstownBeef Yes , the marbling of the fat will also be a factor Environment and breed are big in that

Yes and no, I say that because I’ve tasted @ElkinsCattleCo right next to @BrasstownBeef and they are totally different flavor profiles even though Brasstown should be more preferable to my taste buds because they finish with their “cow kimchi” which is fermented grains. Their braunvieh-angus is just very unique in flavor and substantially different from Tim’s Brahman-angus even though both are delicious, their delicious for different reasons. Feed does matter, but environmental factors matter and genetics matter equally. My granddad stressed all three. He had a masters degree in beef cattle production from the 60s and raised cattle for over 60 years as an adult, but owned cattle for his nearly 92 years on earth. He knew one day someone would create a cross that would be perfect but he knew that wasn’t him.

Grass-fed and grass finished does not mean pasture raised whatsoever a pasture raised means nothing on a label. Feed lots can pump in grass on convey belts just as easily as grain. Labels mean jack. You need to either get it from the source or understand that you aren’t getting what you think. That said, Beef is one of the only animals where how they are raised and fed isn’t life altering because of the miracle of the four stomachs. Find you some local ranchers, or people who ship nationwide like @ElkinsCattleCo @SantaCarotaBeef @IndependenceArk @BrasstownBeef and then you’ll know what you’re actually getting.

@DamianPMason Selling direct, the best part is the consumer and the worst part is the consumer. 80/20 rule maybe 90/10.

Accurate. This is why I tire of the "poor farmer only receives 14% of the average food dollar spent by the consumer" statement we make in Ag. Want more of the food dollar? Do everything from farm to plate and you'll likely see there are reasons the "middle man" makes money.

@TapRootsFood I think the flavor difference is the feed. The grain , the grazed grass etc, raised by your granddad etc. has a different nutrient profile/balance and is reflected in the beef. In my testing so far, nitrogen, sulfur, selenium, calcium are major flavor nutrients in beef.

I’ll be completely honest since my granddad had a 6000 acre ranch. I grew up on largely unmolested cattle that were raised in pastures and finished with grain. Flavor wise, that is my personal preference except 3 of the 4 I tagged. Tim is putting out phenomenal beef, the folks at Brasstown do their own unique finishing method, and IndependenceArk is phenomenal as well. I haven’t tasted Santa Carota yet. They are different than any store bought grass-fed or restaurant grass-fed I’ve had. They are all fattier and flavor wise very close to grain-finished because of that. They aren’t the same flavor, but they are close. I think their flavor differences likely has more to do with being cross-bred to have that fattiness in the pasture than what they are eating.

@TapRootsFood Just curious, as a beef producer. Do the consumers purchasing grass fed beef prefer grazing beef fed possibly a little grain or feedlot raised on 100% grass feed.

@660ag % can’t lie, but it doesn’t mean the cows roamed and grazed which matters more than the exact type of food they were fed.

@TapRootsFood I agree, Even 100% grass fed doesn’t mean much.

Grass fed beef isn’t grass fed is the point. The Kerrygold lawsuit essentially made it where if they fed cows any grass they could claim it as grass fed because it was at least one time in its life fed grass. Unless it tells you percentages it doesn’t mean anything. Where the video is wrong is assuming grassfed means pasture raised and that doesn’t mean a darn thing on a label either.

@NatashaCL7 Just think about the bed bugs at the hotels.

Wisconsin Dells is basically an internet dead zone. I guess I’m not meant to be on my phone. Laters!💋

Mike and I talking about the US Ag Economy with the NY crowd this week. Please repost while our X account is down. THX all bloomberg.com/news/audio/202… America’s farmers can’t seem to catch a break. Years of thin margins and rising costs have already stretched them to the limit.

@CaryKelly11 @eda2026 Nope, corn would be grown like it was in the early 1990s. Would be using different herbicides and a lot more insecticides. Stopping gmo corn will not stop the ultra processed food .

@eda2026 If we stopped growing GMO corn the entire ultra processed food system would collapse

Iowa produces the most GMO corn in the US. Iowa uses more pesticide than any other state except one. Iowa has the 2nd greatest incidence of cancer in the US. Some Iowa countries have cancer rates 50% higher than the national average. But it can’t be the chemicals…

@NatashaCL7 @SteveLovesAmmo More shop classes in schools, not worrying about everyone’s feelings, corporal punishment for kids and parents(maybe), teach kids problem solving and hands on - no memorizing or standardized tests

@SteveLovesAmmo I’m in. What’s the plan?

I say we bring back the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s back. That’s how we fix this country. We show the younger generation what they missed out on by living it again.

@Ndfarmgirl1 @GlyphosateGirl I don’t think you understand but, do what you do, but over time certain nutrients will slowly decrease on your farm. Good luck

@660ag @GlyphosateGirl Microbial live cycle: birth,growth, death decay repeat is the simple explanation. Once cell walls are stripped from the microbes(during rhizophagy)they multiply within seconds..not minutes. The plants(seeds) have to be able to communicate to accomplish this

There is a way off of American farmer dependency on expensive synthetic fertilizer - it is regenerative agriculture. If more people knew that they could grow their own fertility, it would lead to true national security.

@Ndfarmgirl1 @GlyphosateGirl Ok , how does biological cycling etc add zinc or copper or cobalt etc that removed in the crop or protein? Very curious

@660ag @GlyphosateGirl Thats only true if there is no biological cycling/replenishing of nutrients happeninf

@GGunthorp Allows for higher profits (and losses) by the speculators.

It did not take silver or oil futures to realize futures markets aren’t completely correlated to reality. Just ask a farmer. Way more paper traded than physical commodities.

@Cornfrmr Sorry, can’t agree. Ribeye at $25 is still better, not that the pork chop is bad

A pork chop every bit as good as a ribeye...for $2 a pound.

@SamaHoole We are noticing in our testing, if of soil and feed are balanced to certain levels, the linoleic acid levels decrease in our beef.

The linoleic acid content of human body fat in 1960: approximately 9%. The linoleic acid content of human body fat today: approximately 21-23%. Linoleic acid is the primary fatty acid in seed oils. Your body is storing it. Not processing it. Storing it. In the adipose tissue. Where it accumulates over years and decades of consumption. Linoleic acid in body fat oxidises. It contributes to lipid peroxidation. It has a half-life in body fat of approximately 680 days. You are not what you eat immediately. You are what you ate for the last two years, structurally. The obesity epidemic has a molecular timestamp. The timestamp says: 1970s. The timestamp matches when seed oil consumption accelerated. This is not proof of causation. It is, however, a very uncomfortable coincidence that nobody with the authority to act on it appears to want to discuss.

@THEsodakRANCHER Very similar here , ground corn, oats, pellet mix, grass hay

Chow time. Corn, DDG, pellet mix. 1 bucket per head a day (8 buckets). Free choice grass hay. This combo works great for me. What’s your steak maker recipe?

@Mikey1633117 @SamaHoole Not necessarily

@SamaHoole Question: They say grain finished beef is high is omega 6 and that grass fed and finished is lower in omega 6. Is this true?

"I only eat grass-finished. I won't touch grain-fed." Right. Walk me through what you think grain-finished beef is. Because grain-finished beef is a cow that spent the majority of its life on grass: typically 18 to 24 months, and was finished on grain for the last 90 to 180 days of its life. It is, overwhelmingly, a grass-raised animal. The "grain-finished" label refers to the final phase of production. The developmental years, the bone structure, the immune system, the muscle architecture: all built on pasture. This is not a secret. It is publicly documented by every major agricultural body in the country. The people describing grain-finished beef as equivalent to eating a cereal box have confused a finishing protocol with a life sentence. The cow was on grass. It was always on grass. The grain was a brief, final chapter. You have been arguing with a label.