Craig and Susan Reisner, Owners

We are members of AgriMissouri.  We proudly support local  Missouri farmers.

On our 92-acre farm, we follow intensive grazing techniques we learned from the University of Missouri Extension Office's Management Intensive Grazing School, and we try to stay current on the very best practices in grazing and herd health so we can minimize or eliminate the use of antibiotics on our farm.  We try very hard to keep our meat as natural as possible.

On one occasion we had a hurt animal and had to use antibiotics; we just put that meat in our own freezer instead of selling it. Our beef is raised as close to organic as possible, with no hormones, no steroids and no antibiotics. We are honest people who work hard so that others can also eat good-tasting, healthy beef at a reasonable price. In St. Louis we could market our beef as "vegetarian," since they are grass-fed on pasture and grain-finished (90 days of grain). This makes our beef technically grass-fed by definition. We raise calm cows, since flighty animals are dangerous to our family. And we know that calm cows taste better!

I like to say our beef is raised by our family for your family, because we really do have a family farm. Our children raise the bottle calves to show at the Salem Fair (Dent Co. Fall Festival) along with their 4-H projects, while I exhibit my canned goods and produce. The kids now currently own about half of our animals. As their bottle calves get older, they market them to individuals for sale, and so the kids get the profits and can buy more calves to repeat the process. Our children are a big help on the farm.  Their investment of time and loving care toward their animals goes a long way to generate a peaceful herd of cattle.

Our best to you! 

Craig and Susan Reisner

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