grass-fed beef Archives - Canadian Cattlemen

"I realized we weren’t going to get any more money for their cattle taking them to the commodity market of the mainland." – Brad Chappell.

Island Pastures Beef provides opportunity to Vancouver Island ranchers

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan December 22, 2023

When seedstock producer Brad Chappell started Island Pastures Beef over 15 years ago, it was because he saw a need for the island’s ranchers. At the time, Chappell, who lives in the Comox Valley, realized many ranchers on Vancouver Island couldn’t purchase breeding stock at market price from the mainland because of the B.C. ferry […] Read more

Roxanne and Kevin Ziola, along with daughters Josi and Cami, ranch near Red Deer, Alta.

Beef Cattle, Features

Alberta ranching family teaches cattle to forage through snow

Roxanne and Kevin Ziola transitioned their operation from a mixed farm to a grass-fed ranch, where winter grazing is a key part of their production

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan February 8, 2023

A panel of three producers sits at the front of a room filled to bursting with farmers and professionals in the industry. It’s a chilly day in December in Edmonton, Alta., at the Western Canada Soil Health and Grazing Conference, but these producers don’t mind the cold — in fact, they often use it to […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

A+W starts move to all-grass-fed, all-Canadian beef

Suppliers lined up to begin transition this spring

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 10, 2020

Canadian burger chain A+W’s next move to distinguish its menu in a crowded quick-service market will be a connection to the regenerative ag movement, as it sets itself up with an all-Canadian and all-grass-fed beef supply. The Vancouver-based chain, which includes almost 1,000 restaurants across Canada, announced Monday it’s “making a commitment to exclusively source […] Read more

Features, Livestock

New Zealand through the eye of a pasture manager

By Duane McCartney November 1, 2016

After Jack Kyle retired as Ontario’s pasture specialist following 30 years of service to Ontario’s beef producers, he and his wife Jean joined an agricultural tour to New Zealand to see the sites and have a look at agriculture in New Zealand. Some of what he saw there may provide food for thought to pasture […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Features, Forages

Direct marketing grass-fed beef is a family business

Family farm in Alberta made the decision to go certified organic in the 1990s

By Heather Smith Thomas October 7, 2016

After Tim Hoven and his wife Lori took over the management of his family farm at Eckville, Alta., in 1998 they made the decision to go certified organic. It seemed like a natural next step to him. His parents had become involved with holistic management in the late 1980s after taking a course with Don […] Read more

News Roundup

Can cattle be “fattened up” on pasture without grain supplementation?

News Roundup: Virtual on-farm necropsy, VBP animal care module progresses, and calls to suspend COOL

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff September 30, 2014

Forage Can I do that on grass? By Jack Kyle, Ontario forage specialist With increased interest in grass-fed beef, people ask if it is possible to fatten cattle on pasture without grain supplementation. The answer is yes, with a few conditions. When grass finishing animals remember that the market is generally not looking for as […] Read more

Features

Direct-marketed grass-fed beef fuelled their expansion

By Debbie Furber September 12, 2014

Building a beef farm from scratch takes a lot of grit during the best of times. Starting up in hard times calls for that and for confidence in the future. Richard and Kristy-layne Carr have plenty of both. Not bound by tradition, they went into business with 30 cows on a quarter of land near […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

Free range, grass-fed beef, born and grazed in Hawaii

Large-scale ranch raises premium quality beef for local economy

By Duane McCartney July 9, 2014

There is more to Hawaii than bikinis and surfing! There is a big-scale ranching industry, especially on Maui. The 29,000-acre Haleakala Ranch situated in Maui at the base of the Haleakala Mountain (Maui’s tallest) has kept the same core values of family and community that it had when H. P. Baldwin incorporated the ranch back […] Read more

News

Strong demand for direct-marketed, grass-fed beef

Successful forage-finished beef entrepreneurs share marketing strategies at Ag Days

By Daniel Winters February 12, 2014

It takes longer and costs more to produce grass-finished beef, but Jim Lintott’s customers are willing to pay the asking price. The key is quality, which he describes as job No. 1. “I’ve almost never had a consumer tell me, Jim, your rib-eye steak at $17.99 a pound — twice what it’s worth at Safeway […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

Daily Network News

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

Tag Archives grass-fed beef

Island Pastures Beef provides opportunity to Vancouver Island ranchers

Alberta ranching family teaches cattle to forage through snow

A+W starts move to all-grass-fed, all-Canadian beef

New Zealand through the eye of a pasture manager

Direct marketing grass-fed beef is a family business

Can cattle be “fattened up” on pasture without grain supplementation?

Direct-marketed grass-fed beef fuelled their expansion

Free range, grass-fed beef, born and grazed in Hawaii

Strong demand for direct-marketed, grass-fed beef

Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field

Blogs

Cows ain’t coal

AgCanadaTV

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for July 11, 2025

Latest Market News