Grain finished cattle like grass finished spend the majority of their lives eating grass and forage in pastures.
What is grass finished beef.
Grass fed and grass finished beef comes from animals that have eaten a natural diet have eaten grass and grazed on open pastures and lived the majority of their lives out of doors.
We guarantee that butcherbox beef is 100 grass fed and grass finished.
This is the largest factor why true grass finished beef will cost more than feedlot beef or lower quality grass fed beef.
To us this is the most humane approach to raising cattle for food.
That means our cattle are free to range on grassy pastures throughout their entire lives suckling from their mothers for the first 6 to 9 months then eating their natural diet of grass.
At verde our beef is 100 grass fed grass finished organic and free range beef.
When beef is grain finished cattle are free to eat a balanced diet of grain local feed ingredients like potato hulls or sugar beets and hay or forage at the feedyard.
Grass finished beef is 20 lower in calories than grain finished beef and has higher levels of omega 3 fatty acids cla s conjugated.
There are several reasons to choose 100 grass fed grass finished beef including a number of significant health benefits.
Grass fed beef is marketed as the healthiest choice for meat but the term grass fed is unregulated and falls into a bit of a grey area.