The difference between grass fed beef and grass finished beef you should know about.
What is grass finished beef.
This is the largest factor why true grass finished beef will cost more than feedlot beef or lower quality grass fed 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.
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.
There s a major difference between grass fed and grass finished cows that many people don t know about.
Grain finished cattle like grass finished spend the majority of their lives eating grass and forage in pastures.
We guarantee that butcherbox beef is 100 grass fed and grass finished.
At verde our beef is 100 grass fed grass finished organic and free range beef.
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.
Grass finished beef is 20 lower in calories than grain finished beef and has higher levels of omega 3 fatty acids cla s conjugated.
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.