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$ 5.00 1947 THE STOCKMAN Our 72nd Year — Since May 2019 Gras Farmer Volume 19, #5 THE S GRAZIER’S EDGE The informational foundation for a healthy planet and people through profitable grass-based livestock production. What Causes Meadow Talk Flavor, Off Flavors and Color in Beef? By Anibal Pordomingo SANTA ROSA, Argentina: Flavor and color of beef could be related with animal genetics, the forage base, and the animal and carcass handling. Depending on the rumen capac- ity for absorption of pigments and the liver enzymatic machinery, The Colemans use regenerative permaculture techniques to raise pure, nutrient-dense foods. Farm Crisis ruminants express more or less the ability to pass colors and flavors Answers to fat in beef or milk. Forages are Sweet Grass Dairy of Ohio Fulfills full of water soluble pigments, but By Joel Salatin the fat-soluble are the ones most Long-term Dream to Farm in an involved. As 2018 agricultural data Many plant species produce car- trickles in, it’s not a pretty pic- otenes, flavonoids, absorbable ter- Ecologically Sound Manner ture. penes and essential oils. If the liver By Becky Gillette Farm as a young person and had Average net farm income was cannot deal with the amount or has a dream to farm in an ecologi- negative. In other words, the no machinery to metabolize them, FREDERICKTOWN, Ohio. As cally sound way while building a average farm in America lost the compounds will likely be stored a teen, Jacob Coleman started direct market.” money. Farm income decreased in the fat. a 4H dairy lease program where He went to the College of $9.1 billion and total farm Colors and flavors from for- he “rented” a heifer on a grass- the Ozarks for an ag business debt increased $410 billion. ages are more detectable in milk based dairy near his parent’s degree while looking for a way Bankruptcies in some states than beef. The mammary gland home in Indiana. His parents to farm. Then he met the woman are up nearly 60 percent. From captures and directs to milk these had a mini farm with a couple of who would become his wife, the dairy crisis to tariff talks, compounds faster and with lower steers and a few hundred broil- Elizabeth. it’s gloom and doom time in transformation than though the ers. “Liz and I met on eHarmony in American agriculture, at least liver to the adipose tissue. Jerseys “My 4H project quickly turned 2011 as two people looking for according to most conventional are known for their yellow fat. Fat into a job digging bull thistles a spouse who was a Christian, accounts. in older animals is yellower than fat and dock on the pastures,” Jacob desired a family, and wanted to Senator Michael Bennet from young ones, unless we force said. “Soon this turned into farm,” Jacob said. “We married (D-Colorado) wrote an op-ed the animal to a weight loss and use milking a herd of 100 cows six and I started working with Liz’s piece in the Wall Street Journal all backfat. In such circumstances days a week in the evening and family on their family dairy. I identifying three problems: low stored pigments would be removed learning pasture management. I quickly realized my dream was commodity prices, drought, and and metabolized with the fat. Then, loved my job through high school not going to come to fruition labor shortages. Drought is the we re-feed the animal with an ener- and quickly developed a dream on a conventional confinement only one for which he doesn’t gy-rich pigment-free diet. This is to farm someday, somehow. As dairy farm. So, I started looking have a culprit. The other two are the case of cows that are culled thin a teen, I also direct marketed for a way to start our own farm President Trump, of course: tar- and are concentrate fed to fatten. grassfed beef and chicken from with smaller grass genetics for a iff wars and immigration wars. Perception of colors, odors and my parents’ four acres. I had small dairy farm.” He wants a different policy on flavor is cultural and difficult to read Joel Salatin’s book You Can Continued on p. 5 Continued on p. 29 Continued on p. 3 NEW! Nose-to-Tail Marketing & Production School see page 10 —PAID ADVERTISEMENT— —PAID ADVERTISEMENT— By Paul Schneider Jr., unavailable to the plant. Nature has the 5. AG-USA solution. Why not let nature supply more of First, there are soil microbes that your NPK, Ca, moisture, etc. Nature “eat” phosphorus; they digest it. 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