Pasture To Plate

I’m KayDee Gilkey and welcome to Open Range. Here’s Greg with today’s report.

Thanks KayDee. Blogger and cattle producer, Kim Brackett likes to share the story of how that delicious steak on your plate gets there.

BRACKETT: A couple of weeks ago I went to a non-industry meeting; one of the other participants found out that I was a cattle producer and she approached me and wanted to know what life was like on my ranch. Come to find out she was a nurse from Boston and she had never been out west, never even had thought about what cattle ranchers did and we had a great conversation.

What Brackett discovered was a great dialog about how the cattle industry worked.

BRACKETT: She asked me questions like if we named all of our cattle and I assured her that would be a little complicated for us to keep track of and we talked about we ear tag them and keep track of them through different identification methods and I just went through the whole cattle industry system for her and explained how it went step-by-step and it was a great

Inevitably the topic of factory farms came up.

BRACKETT: I explained to her about my family. That I have four small kids and that I raise them on the ranch and they’re involved and we’re all out there whatever it might be so that’s not really a factory farm to me, that’s my family ranch right there so it was interesting for them, I think, to get that perspective.

I’m Greg Martin and that’s today’s AgriBeef Minute.

Thanks Greg. Don’t forget Greg will be back each Wednesday with the AgriBeef Minute. Agri Beef Co - Real Families, Great People, Exceptional Beef. I’m KayDee Gilkey.