Best Steaks of All-Time

[grassfarmer]

We don't have the huge arable landbase over there to grow the grain but the weather allows regular crops of high quality grass silage. Yes it takes longer to get cattle to slaughter weights like that but remember that part of the income comes from subsidies that until recently paid on the basis of you maintaining the animal. One scheme on steers paid out $x claimable once when the animal was aged between 7-12 months and $X again between the ages of 20-24 months. This was to encourage less intensive production and lower the beef supply I think originally. Typically spring born calves will be fattened off grass in their second summer (18 months) or out of barns up to 2 years old. Quite a lot of bulls are fed out on an intensive grain system like your feedlots here - we did that for a while, killed bulls at 12-14 months -again because we could make the subsidy work better for us that way.