By Robbie Garrett Grass based farms are very different then most of the farms today. There are not as many but when running a grass based farm it is possible to produce as much as a bigger industrialized farm could of would have produced. There are many benefits to this way of farming and there are some downsides as not producing as much as possible with a industrialized farm would. There are a lot of questions with industrialized farms as if they are safe and an alright way of life for the animals to live as Temple Grandin had fixed some of these problems. I'm sure that some still exist on these kinds of farms in many places. In grass fed farms there is a better quality of life for the animals and they get the chance to roam unlike the others where they might be consumed in a small little space and would have to sit there day after day. Why should a farmer go grass fed ? What are the benefits? When the animals are properly pastured, raising grass fed beef cattle on grass based farms are able to yield you more meat up to 200 pounds more, which could have less fat and could be provided at less cost than the commercial grain fed beef. If the persons land produces hay or if they are able to keep cattle in the pasture for a good part of the year, they will be able to save money by growing their own feed and raising grass fed beef on their
farm which is a good benefit to not just there self. I think that grass fed farms sound like something I would do if I were trying to decide which farm to do.
Pastures and organic parts of grass based farms are good things for farmers. In the pastures part of livestock it has benefits for the people who buy the products and for the ones who eat them, the farmers, and the animals along with the environment, I'm so grass based farmers provide their animals with as much pasture as they can because it helps everyone out. A long time ago originally all of the livestock