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07/15/2020 By Matt & Jessica @ Clover Meadows Beef

Why Cattle Nutrition is Important to Everybody That Eats Beef

Today we’re going to skim the surface on an popular agriculture topic, cattle nutrition. We don’t usually go this deep into agriculture topics, but we decided to for a few reasons:

We sometimes get questions from customers who ask if our cattle only eat grass. The answer is no. All cattle (even grass finished cattle) sometimes need to eat something other than grass in order to be healthy, like mineral.
We try to be completely transparent about what we do on our farm, and one of the things we focus on daily is cattle nutrition.
If you’re thinking, “I’m a typical consumer that just wants good grass fed beef. Why should I care about cattle nutrition and mineral?” The answer is because without cattle nutrition and mineral, the quality and quantity of grass fed beef changes. In other words, without good cattle nutrition, your steaks won’t be as good.

8 Easy Steak Marinade Recipes

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Having a good, quick steak marinade recipe is essential during grilling season.

Although we think most cuts taste amazing with only a little salt and pepper, a good steak marinade recipe is great when you want to give the beef an added flavor.

Since we raise beef cattle, we eat a lot of steaks.

There are a few steak marinade recipes that we repeatedly use because they’re easy to make, they’re versatile for multiple recipes, they use common pantry ingredients, and they infuse flavor quickly.

For some of these steak marinades, the steak needs to marinade for as little as 15-minutes to get the flavor.

Best Hamburger Seasoning

It’s grilling season! And that means it’s time to talk burgers and hamburger seasoning.

Our favorite hamburger seasoning uses some very basic ingredients that you already have in your pantry: paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, brown sugar and cayenne pepper.

The Best DIY Hamburger Seasoning Recipe

Good hamburgers are an art. In our opinion, they need to be hot of the grill with a slight char-grilled outside and juicy inside. Plus, they must be easy to throw together.

Why easy? Because half the time that we grill hamburgers, we’re having a party with friends. When having a party, we’d much rather be talking to friends than slaving away making a burger. Easy is a must.

That brings us to the perfect hamburger seasoning. If you get the beef and the hamburger seasoning right, you end up with an amazing burger. Every. Time.

How to Cook Beef Roast

Let’s talk about cooking beef roast (a.k.a. pot roast).

It’s one of Matt’s all-time favorite diners because of the taste. It’s one of Jessica’s all-time favorite dinners because of the taste AND because it’s a one-pot-wonder.

Plus, there are some amazing meals you can make with the beef roast left-overs, assuming you have any.

We do have a favorite cut we use when we cook beef roast, but before we say “just get this cut” we want to explain the different beef roast cuts and why we have a favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UtroBODk8g&t=2s

Farm Life: How We Feed Cows

We’re often asked what a typical day looks like on our farm. Every day is very different, so there isn’t an easy answer to that question.

However, one thing that is always the same is that every day Matt gets on his four-wheeler and drives to check and feed the cows.

We thought you might like to join him as he feeds cows on a typical night, so that’s what this video is about.

Do we feed all of our cows the same way?

Keep in mind that our farm is a cow-calf farm, and we’re unique because we raise and sell both grass finished and grain finished beef directly to consumers.

That means we have several different groupings of cattle on our farm. They all have different needs that we have to account for.

The grass finished cattle need to be checked regularly so we’re sure they’re all still healthy and none of them got hurt in the pasture. We don’t typically feed them since they only eat grass.
The grain finished cattle need to be checked regularly and fed daily. They live in the pasture their entire lives and also receive natural grain during the last 6 months of their life. It’s up to them on if they eat the grass or grain.
The heifers need to be checked regularly and they’re fed some grain too. We explained the difference between cows and heifers before. As a refresher, heifers are new mama cows that have had their first calf. Whether you’re a first time human mom or cow mom, having a baby is a lot of work and takes a toll on your body! After a heifer has had a baby calf, we give her some all-natural grain so that she’s getting even more nutrients in her diet. These nutrients help her get strong again, and also help ensure her milk has all the nutrients it needs for the baby calf.
Baby calves need to be checked regularly since they’re so young. They drink their mom’s milk for the first 6 months of life. As they grow, they start to transition from their mother’s milk only to a mixture of milk and grass around 4 to 6 months of age.

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