FORAGE BEEF TRIALS
February 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US Agriculture Research Service is investigating the extent to which grass-fed free range cattle produce meat that is leaner and more tender than beef from feed-lot fattened animals. Its initial aim is to help market the mostly grass-fed cattle of the Appalachian mountain range in the American South, with farms exploiting the "natural beef" market niche, selling directly to retail outlets and wholesalers. The pasture-finished animals would be raised without supplements or hormones and not given antibiotics unless they became ill. A ...
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