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Why choose our grass fed beef? Our meat is not just high quality. It is about what we do for our soil, land, wildlife and the planet
Find out how the rare breed slow grown sheep live and are managed on grass. And how we’re helping the ladscape at the same time. Sheep do not need to be destructive to the environment.
The most ethical, tasty and nutritious chicken you can find. It’s truly special. A world of difference from the cheap mass produced chicken found in the shops.
Our woodland and pastured pigs are as free-range as pigs can be. Running free in an old woodland or a pasture, rooting around for nuts and eating vegetation.
What is involved in producing our meat? Why does it end up costing more than meat in a shop?
As a calf, it is fed 100 kg of feed in a creep feeder:
60 kg barley
14 kg soya
23.5 kg sugar beet
growing steer (for 100 days) ratio:
350 kg barley
30 kg rapeseed
finishing steer (for 80 days)
600 kg barley
TOTAL feed per steer:
1010 kg barley
30 kg rapeseed
14 kg soya
23.5 kg sugar beet
Source: AHDB
Pesticide figure based on yearly application of pesticides on barley in 2018 (based on application to 0.17 ha that would produce 1 tonne of barley):
spring and winter barley were mixed in equal ratio for simplicity.
Pesticides in spring barley:
157.5 g
Pesticides in winter barley:
307.5 g
TOTAL 465 g of pesticides = to litres it is about 465 ml of pesticides per year.
Source: Pesticides usage survey 284 for arable crops in the United Kingdom 2018 (National Statistics)
Fertilizer figure (based on application to 0.17 ha that would produce 1 tonne of barley):
nitrogen: 24.14 kg
phosphate: 4.59 kg
potash: 5.95 kg
sulfur: 5.95 kg
TOTAL 40.63 kg of fertilizers
Source: British survey of fertilizer practice for 2018 (DEFRA)