Spring Water Beef LLC

​Just saying..........You have made the jump into a purchase of locally raised beef. You now know where your beef comes from, just down the road, from a neighbor who cares about food sourcing.

But what is grass fed and finished? Let’s first discuss commercially fed and finished beef.  All beef cattle spend the first few months of their lives on pasture, where they graze on grass and legume forage crops. But commercially raised beef are then fattened, or as the industry likes to call it “finished,” in feedlots where they eat grain.  Feedlot beef as we know it today would be impossible if it weren’t for the routine and continual feeding of antibiotics to these animals. This leads directly and inexorably to the development of antibiotic- 

resistant bacteria. Not to mention other larger issues for our future farm sustainability.

So what is grass finished? Cattle are ruminant animals with that one stomach which enables digestions of plant materials naturally. Grasses and legumes are rich in nutrients when provided in abundance. That’s all that is needed for a cow to thrive. No grains, antibiotics or feed additives are needed. In addition our grasses are organic. All natural. We use rotational grazing practices as well.