Boîte d’échantillon de 10 lb de bœuf Angus nourri à l'herbe

At Grazing Days all of our beef is grass-fed and grass-finished. This means that our cattle only eat grass from pasture in the spring, summer and fall, and hay (dried grass) and/or haylage (a fermented grass) in the winter.

No animals on our farm ever receive artificial growth hormones.

As a rule, we do not treat our animals with antibiotics, but there is some nuance here:

Due to our management practices we rarely have to treat an animal with antibiotics for an infection. If an animal does become sick with an infection that we are unable to treat with alternative methods, for animal welfare reasons, we will treat the animal with antibiotics and / or whichever other treatment is required to help the animal get better.

We commit to transparency and will disclose an animal’s treatment history when we are selling the meat. The vast majority of the meat we sell comes from animals that never received a treatment and if we don’t mention otherwise, the meat came from an animal that never received a treatment of antibiotics.

Although we do follow the Canadian Organic Standards on our farm, the beef we sell is not currently certified organic. This is mainly due to 2 reasons:

First, we do purchase 1 year old beef cattle in the spring. Certified organic 1 year old beef cattle are very difficult to find within a reasonable distance of the farm and we have had to weigh our desire to be certified organic with our desire to treat animals humanely and not have them be shipped on a truck for eight or nine hours. We have opted to work with a local farmer to raise 1 year old beef cattle that are raised in line with Grazing Days’ philosophy for clean, healthy, humanely raised and environmentally sound beef. The farmer that we work with in La Pêche is no longer certified organic, but has agreed to follow strict protocols outlined by Grazing Days to raise the 1 year old beef cattle that we purchase.

Secondly, the land on which we are farming has been abused by over-tilling and use of pesticides. There was very little biological activity in the soil. Through our grazing and management practices, we are slowly bringing this land back to life. Currently, the land is not yet producing enough to provide our cattle with enough feed in the summer & winter. We graze the cattle on the pastures all summer and then feed the cattle with purchased hay and haylage in the winter. We have found it very difficult to find certified organic hay in quantities that we need. The hay we purchase comes from farms that do not use artificial fertilizers or pesticides, but is not certified organic. Hopefully in about 5 to 10 year’s time our fields will once again be teaming with microbial life and we will be able to grow enough grass to sustain our cattle in the summer and winter.

Yes, we love having visitors on our farm so please join a farm-tour this summer.

We organize several farm tours and farm visit between the months of June and October to give people a chance to see how we raise our animals and how our pasturing systems work.

We process our beef animals in 2 different abattoirs and one of them does offer Halal and Kosher certification. If this is something that is interesting to you, please do reach out to us via phone at 819-516-0600 or email at paul@grazingdays.ca. We will be happy to connect you with Halal or Kosher grass-fed and grass-finished beef!ent