Producer’s Guide to Pasture Base Beef Finishing

This pasture based beef finishing manual helps producers identify and overcome the challenges of selling grass-finished or grain-on-grass finished beef. Selling grass-finished cattle generally requires considerable interaction with potential customers. There are many obstacles that present challenges for producers entering the market for pasture-finished beef production. The manual addresses and helps guide producers through those obstacles and challenges.

Pasture Finishing Worksheet for Beef Cattle (2016) (Excel Spreadsheet xlsx)

Download the spreadsheet to evaluate various pasture-based production systems for finishing beef cattle and see how well they meet target markets.

Can Cattle be Finished on Pasture? (Progressive Forage)

A 2018 article on Progressive Forage's website answers this question and provides producers with how finishing cattle on pasture can be accomplished.