Grass fed is synonymous with bad shoe leather as far as flavor is concerned, IMO.

I have done both grass fed and grain finished, grass fed beef. The steaks and roasts were better on the corn finished heffer than the grass fed steers. The burger may have been slightly better from the grass fed beef, but was not much different than the grain finished.

The grass fed steers were butchered at around 28 months, to beat the 30 month cut off, where processing gets much more expensive. One was just over 1600 pounds and the other steer just over 1550. The grain finished, grass fed heffer was butchered around 16 months. It was around 1250.

In the future, I plan on grass feeding until the grass starts thinning out and then finishing on grain.

Keith

Amen!

And this is trapping related, because

There is a huge difference in the cattle breeds. The angus are a very good beef cow. Hereford I like too. I have had Charlios and holstien that were grain fed and ate like shoe leather. I am going to breed a couple of angus heifers to a wagu bull and try that. I love the wagu I have Had so far. Grain fed all the way.

Nothing wrong with grass fed beef if the person raising it knows what they are doing, unfortunately 95% plus don't know what they are doing.

There's a big difference between grass fed and grass Finished. With the right genetics, finished on a grass-only diet gaining more than 2lbs/day during the finishing period, you can enjoy both the health benefits of grass fed beef and the taste benefits of marbling we all like in our beef.