Other than the tasty, healthy, lean beef that comes from your local farmer, there are many other reasons to buy our grass fed beef.

Research has shown that grass-fed beef is more nutritious and healthy than grain-fed beef that you get from the supermarket. Grass-fed beef has less total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and calories. In return, grass-fed beef has more health-promoting fats such as Omega-3 fatty acid, and has more antioxidants such as vitamin E, beta-carotene and vitamin C.

Our cattle are raised in a low stress environment on deGraan Farms. They are raised on the natural forages the cattle were meant to eat without supplemental hormones that promote growth. This in turn causes less illness in the herds so we do not have to use sub-therapeutic antibiotics to keep our cattle healthy.

deGraan Farms is focused on our cattle’s impact on the environment around us. We keep our cattle from standing in and polluting our community’s water shed and supply. Our cattle are not confined to a small area as with feed lots. This keeps down pollution from run off from manure piling up. We care about soil erosion by rotating pastures and having USDA designed heavy use areas for heavily used areas by the cattle, such as around water troughs, hay rings, and gate openings.