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Scott and Renee Brandenburg manage a herd of Certified Grassfed by AGW beef cattle at Brand Acres Beef LLC, located in a small town called Greenleaf, about 20 miles south of Green Bay, Wisconsin. The original farmstead of 80 acres…
Robin and Joe Hampton are first generation farmers and started farming at Back Creek in Mount Ulla in Rowan County in 1981. Building their farming business from the ground up, they have slowly expanded their livestock operation and now raise…
Nathan W. Drager raises Certified Animal Welfare Approved by A Greener World (AGW) beef cattle at Drager Farms, LLC in Marietta, Pennsylvania. Nathan grew up on a 200-acre conventional dairy farm in the same area and he now farms on…
Doug and Susan Schlosnagle, along with their daughter, Chelsey, and son, Jared, raise Certified Animal Welfare Approved by A Greener World (AGW) beef cattle at Dutch Creek Farm in Pleasureville, Kentucky. Doug and Susan have spent their entire lives as…
Holly Whitesides and Andy Bryant are first generation famers raising Certified Animal Welfare Approved by A Greener World (AGW) beef cattle at Against the Grain Farm in Zionville, North Carolina. Holly became interested in farming in college, where she was…
Jim Kunetz and his family raise Certified Animal Welfare Approved by A Greener World (AGW) laying hens and Certified Grassfed by AGW sheep and beef cattle at Greene Jungle Farm, located in the rolling hills of Ridgefield in southwest Washington…
Rainer and Gigi Krumsiek immigrated from Germany to British Columbia in 1993. Two years later, they purchased Big Bear Ranch—2,300 acres of mixed pasture and woodland in the foothills of the Cariboo Mountains and the perfect place to fulfill their…
Daniel and Patrick McDougall’s ancestors first settled in western Nevada in the 1860s after leaving the South during the Civil War, selling cattle to the Union Army and silver miners at the Comstock Lode—the first major discovery of silver ore…
Alfred and Ginger Tanagho raise Certified Animal Welfare Approved by A Greener World (AGW) beef cattle and sheep at Waypoint Farm in Hallettsville, Texas. The animals are managed outdoors on pasture or range and Alfred and Ginger market their high-quality,…
Aaron Moultrup, general construction business owner, and his wife, Kerry, a teacher, both grew up in hardworking families. When they decided to buy an old farmhouse and land in the southern tier of New York state neither of them had…
While the GRSB states that it has deliberately avoided outlining indicators, metrics or practices on the basis they are “only applicable in a narrow range of environments and systems and therefore need to be developed at the local level,” we believe that in order to be credible, any further local and international work in this area must properly tackle the following fundamental limitations of the GRSB’s Principles and Criteria report—and the industrial beef production model itself.
Lawrence Hollings believes the health of his soil is connected to the nutrition of his pastures and ultimately influences the health of his cattle—and the nutritional quality of the meat they produce. Inspired by an understanding of the interrelatedness of…
