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The Difference Between Grass Fed Beef and Grass Finished Beef

October 25, 2011

Grass Fed means that the animals have been fed grass, but not exclusively.  Their diet may have been supplemented with grain, but they were on pasture and were eating grass. Grass Finished means that the animals were eating only grass and received no extra supplementation of grain. And now you know!

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Poison in Your Chicken (And Your Beef)

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(NaturalNews) After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted thatchicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that’s fatal in high doses. But the real story is where this arsenic comes from:It’s added to the chicken feed on [...]

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Photos from the Food Expo

October 3, 2011

 

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Hauling Bales

October 1, 2011
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The Fall

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Fall is a weird time of year. At the farm, we are winding down all the summer work (eg. we finished cutting all the swath grazing today) but there is kind of an emptiness as you wait for the nastiness of winter. This beautiful weather we have been having is so appreciated, but underneath it [...]

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Grass Fed Grain Finished vs Grass Finished

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Grass finished beef is beef that has not received any grain for at least the last 12 months.  The grass finished beef that Hoven Farms is selling now has not received any grain since the spring of 2010. Our regular beef is grass fed and grain finished.  The animals are raised on pasture but receive [...]

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A Concerned Consumer wrote…..

August 16, 2011

I recently called Alberta and Canadian Food Services departments and asked them about organic foods and no chemical pesticides or herbicides or antibiotics etc…..Both said that there was NO direct connection between Fungicides, pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics or anything related to the foods that we eat in Canada and our health. None of those affecfs our [...]

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Canoeing on the Lake

August 16, 2011

It is a little know fact that we have a lake on our land. Not a great lake, but a lake nonetheless. It is an old peat bog that burned out a hundred and thirty years ago and has now filled with water.  Now at about 100acres, it holds a tremendous amount of water. It [...]

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Spring Morning

March 28, 2010
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Sunset at the Farm

September 25, 2009

We finished combining last night and this was the beautiful sunset as we were winding down.  A very nice way to end harvest! Now I am off to swath all the swath grazing.  Time to get off the computer and on to the swather. The picture was zoomed in on my Blackberry so it is [...]

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