 Country Natural Beef “Honoring the relationship from the land to the customer and back"In 1986 fourteen family ranches formed a consumer driven beef marketing cooperative with a vision to protect open spaces by preserving the rural culture and families that nurture them. Country Natural Beef is a conduit allowing individual family ranches to own, control and finance our beef from birth of the calf to our retail customer. This conduit serves as a two way bridge - providing value to our urban customer's meal and meaning to our rancher's work. What makes Country Natural Beef Unique?Stewardship. Country Natural Beef is third party certified for humane animal practices and environmentally sensitive land management by Food Alliance. Rancher Controlled. Country Natural Beef is a unique cooperative, each family rancher owns, and controls management of their beef from birth to the retail cooler. Diet. Country Natural Beef cattle are fed a 100% vegetarian diet. For the first 14-18 months of the animal’s life they are on native range grasses, seeded pastures and hay; to assure a year around supply, some ranches use winter growing lots and the cattle are fed a high roughage ration based on silages and hay before they come to the feedlot. They spend an average of three months at our gathering feedlot on a diet of potatoes, grain, and hay. No Additives. USDA approved label grown without hormones or antibiotics. For more information on Country Natural Beef, please click here.
2009 Agricultural Connection of the Yearawarded to founding Country Natural Beef Members Doc & Connie Hatfield
Long-time members, partners and friends celebrate with Doc and Connie Hatfield at the Denim and Diamonds Dinner & Auction, Governor Hotel, Portland, Oregon. This award presented by the Agri-business Council of Oregon. |
