Category: Beef in Russia

(Editor’s note: the following is an email we received from a Russian cattle producer we tried to sell Beefmasters, and my subsequent response. I thought I’d share since it answers a lot of the common objections about Beefmasters in colder climates…)

Sustainability is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days. It is defined as “the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and hereby supporting long-term ecological balance.” This definition seems like an awfully good description of what cow-calf producers do every day. Sadly though, there are those who accuse our industry of being unsustainable. This claim has less to do with reality than the hidden agenda of groups who wish to end production agriculture. But perception can become reality in the minds of an uninformed public, so ranchers have a duty to stand up for themselves and share the wonderful story of grass-based ranching…