Sorry, but I don't think you'll find it easy to locate a ranch that has a
finished steer of market size just standing around.  Nowadays most beef
producers I know of merely raise and sell the calfs into the "grain-fed"
operators who actually finish them (ie., feed them to market size).  If you
want a market size animal from a rancher/farmer, you'll probably be looking
for a cull dairy cow or a dairy steer  rather than a "beef" type bovine.

Ask around for local ranchers that raise beef steers to market size before
you go hitching up your trailers.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paleogal" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: pasture-fed vs conventional beef: test results


> Thanks for the great reply and an even better suggestion.....  This is
worth
> looking into....  Oliva
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Katy & Ron" <[log in to unmask]>
> I think anyone who drove up to a cattle ranch with an appropriate trailer
> could
> buy a steer that had been pasture/grass fed all its life past weaning, and
> just
> haul it to their preferred butcher shop and have it processed and get a
good
> quality meat that avoids the grain finishing.
> Katy
>
>
>