This is the largest factor why true grass finished beef will cost more than feedlot beef or lower quality grass fed beef.
What is grass finished beef.
Grain finished cattle like grass finished spend the majority of their lives eating grass and forage in pastures.
There are several reasons to choose 100 grass fed grass finished beef including a number of significant health benefits.
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.
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.
There s a major difference between grass fed and grass finished cows that many people don t know about.
Grass finished beef is 20 lower in calories than grain finished beef and has higher levels of omega 3 fatty acids cla s conjugated.
We guarantee that butcherbox beef is 100 grass fed and grass finished.
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.
No grain is ever fed to grass finished animals and this process will typically take from 24 36 months compared to the 18 20 months for feedlot cattle.
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.