**  It is our mission and passion to nurture and raise quality cattle.

    **  We take great pride in producing a wholesome, tender, and flavorful product for our

family and yours.

**  It is important to our family, as it is to yours, 
       to know that the food we put on the table is wholesome and of the highest quality.

**  It is essential to know where our food was raised and how it arrived to the table.

 **  Here at the ranch nothing goes to waste.  We utilize everything to the fullest extent.

**  In the summer we graze native grass pastures that are not suitable for farming. We also created irrigated pastures at home for our cows to graze and raise their calves.

**  Our winter routine puts our cows on farm ground where they clean up forages like corn stalks, wheat stubble and hay fields.  This practice benefits both cow and land.
             
 **  All feeds that we feed are locally grown by area farmers or ourselves. We do our best to support the local farmers and economy.

**  We utilize other feeds such as sugar beet pulp and distiller's grains.  (Two local bi-products leftover after they produce sugar and ethanol.)

**  Buying local and utilizing local resources ensures we are keeping it green.

 **  The cow is an incredible green machine. Cows convert otherwise useless forages and feeds into an amazing source of protein.

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http://www.journal-advocate.com/business/sterling-agriculture/ci_29064602/salute-agriculture-2015