Williams Grassfed, LLC
1046 Mayoworth Road
Kaycee, Wyoming 82639
Phone: 307.738.2385
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•How can you get Williams Grassfed beef? •What makes our beef different? •What makes our beef healthier? •Isn’t grassfed beef tough? •Williams Grassfed beef or Organic beef? •Environmentally Friendly Beef •References

How can you get Williams Grassfed beef?
We are currently taking orders on a first come, first served basis for beeves that will be processed in June of 2006.  We are also able to ship Williams Grassfed beef anywhere in the United States. Click here to contact us about your grassfed beef needs!

What makes our beef different?
The answer to that is simple.  Unlike commodity beef that you would buy in nearly all grocery stores and restaurants, our beef has been produced solely on grass.  Our steers never enter a feedlot or confinement system and are never fed any cereal grains whatsoever.  Our steers are finished, or fattened, slowly, naturally, the way nature intended.  I like to say that our beef is slow-aged “on the hoof” – since we don’t push our steers with artificial steroids or hormones in a feedlot to grow and mature abnormally quickly.  It takes a little longer to finish steers this way, but we believe that a slow, natural growth is healthier for the animal, healthier for the environment, and healthier for our customers.

Also unlike commodity beef, Williams Grassfed beef has never been fed or injected with antibiotics or ionophores.  Williams Grassfed beef is pure, all-natural and healthy – just the way Mother Nature intended!

What makes our beef healthier?
There is an old saying “You are what you eat.” This is true, especially when it comes to ruminant animals (like cattle) and what they eat. When a steer’s diet becomes grain-rich, it begins to have an effect on the muscle and the fat the animal produces.

Studies have shown that cattle fed and finished solely on a 100% forage diet are much higher in valuable nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), Vitamin E, and Beta-carotene. Researchers call omega-3 fatty acids the “heart friendly fat”, and they have discovered that omega-3’s:

• reduce cardiac problems ¹
• may reduce the growth of cancer tumors ²
• may enhance brain function ³

Research also suggests that CLA:

• may be a cancer inhibitor ^{4 & 5}
• may reduce fat deposition ⁶

To learn more about the health benefits of grassfed meats and milk, click here.

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Isn’t grassfed beef tough?
Unfortunately, grassfed beef does have a reputation for being tougher than grainfed beef, and finishing cattle on a 100% forage diet is definitely an art that requires much more skill than grain finishing.  Here at Williams Grassfed, we have invested the effort, money, and the time required to learn this art of finishing cattle on grass.  We have been producing grassfed beef for over 7 years and our customers are continually amazed with how tender, juicy, and flavorful our beef is!

We are also using technology to insure that all of the grassfed beef we produce is tender and juicy. Dr. Allen Williams (no relation) with Tallgrass Beef Company has developed an ultrasound program that tests for tenderness. This program has proved to be 85-90% accurate in correlating with the Warner-Bratzler (WB) Shear Force test. The WB test analyzes the tenderness of beef by assessing how much force is required to cut through a prepared rib-eye steak. In late March of this year, we tested our steers and were extremely pleased with the results – every one of the Williams Grassfed steers available for sale tested “Tender” or better!

Williams Grassfed beef or Organic beef?
Please keep in mind that I am not here to say that I think grain fed beef is unhealthy in any way. I think that researchers and scientists are just beginning to realize and admit how valuable red meat is to the human diet, and I think that beef is one of the most complete and healthiest choices a consumer can make in the grocery store or the restaurant. I just believe that grassfed beef has a few added health benefits.

Unless it is labeled as “Grass-fed, Organic Beef”, most organic beef has still been produced by the use of cereal grains, so like commodity beef, most organic beef is still low in omega 3 fatty acids, CLA, Vitamin E, and other valuable nutrients. Williams Grassfed beef has been produced on an all-forage diet its entire life, to maintain it’s natural level of these healthy nutrients, and like organic beef, Williams Grassfed beef has been produced without the use of steroids, antibiotics, hormones, or pesticides.

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Environmentally Friendly Beef
The average steak travels approximately 2,000 miles before it reaches your plate. That does not include the petroleum energy required to produce the grain and transport that grain to the feedlot, nor the fuel required to feed that grain. It is estimated that it requires up to 15 calories of energy to produce 1 calorie of food in America today. The energy required to produce Williams Grassfed beef is renewable – it comes from the sun. Our steers stay here on the ranch from birth until market, so the only petroleum energy they require is to get from our gate to your plate!

We also use our cattle to maintain and improve the health of the land itself. By carefully managing our holistic grazing system, we are able to use the cattle as a tool to improve the mineral cycle and the water cycle required to maintain healthy soil and a healthy range.

By purchasing Williams Grassfed beef you are not only helping us to be responsible stewards of the land, you are ensuring that Wyoming’s beloved open spaces stay open and beautiful for all of our children.

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