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<blockquote data-quote="Oldtimer" data-source="post: 722482" data-attributes="member: 97"><p>You folks do know that this "grass fed" is something that wasn't invented just last week don't you :???: My grandpa never grain fed a beef- everything was grass fattened- then butchered...The cattle trailed from Texas to Montana in the 1880's- were run on Montana's powerful short grass to fatten- then taken to the railhead for transport to slaughter...None of those cattle ever saw an ear of corn (unless they broke into some homesteaders garden)....</p><p></p><p>Everyone acts like this is something new-- when really it has been around for hundreds of years.....Its the original way cattle were raised in this county...Its just that in the last few years the genetics of cattle went toward the high input cattle (like some discussed on this site that begin creep feeding at a month old to get full performance :roll: )-- but now that grain/concentrate inputs cost much more- and the consumers are reawakening to the qualities of "grass fed" it has revived some of those old genetics and methods as these producers roll with the punches of the ever changing markets.....</p><p>The great thing about grass genetics is that they finish out great on grain/corn too if thats the direction you want to go-- where most the high performance "bigger, better, faster" genetics won't finish out on grass...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldtimer, post: 722482, member: 97"] You folks do know that this "grass fed" is something that wasn't invented just last week don't you :???: My grandpa never grain fed a beef- everything was grass fattened- then butchered...The cattle trailed from Texas to Montana in the 1880's- were run on Montana's powerful short grass to fatten- then taken to the railhead for transport to slaughter...None of those cattle ever saw an ear of corn (unless they broke into some homesteaders garden).... Everyone acts like this is something new-- when really it has been around for hundreds of years.....Its the original way cattle were raised in this county...Its just that in the last few years the genetics of cattle went toward the high input cattle (like some discussed on this site that begin creep feeding at a month old to get full performance :roll: )-- but now that grain/concentrate inputs cost much more- and the consumers are reawakening to the qualities of "grass fed" it has revived some of those old genetics and methods as these producers roll with the punches of the ever changing markets..... The great thing about grass genetics is that they finish out great on grain/corn too if thats the direction you want to go-- where most the high performance "bigger, better, faster" genetics won't finish out on grass... [/QUOTE]
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