Grass Fed, Barley Finished

While our cattle graze naturally on pasture and grass forages for their whole life, in their last few months we supplement their diet with homegrown barley. Outstanding Beef has a substantial cropping operation - we plant around 2600 acres every year to crops such as barley, wheat, oats and peas.

In the finishing stages we start adding our barley into the beef ration. We believe that barley supplementation is the cornerstone of our beef's characteristic well-marbled appearance, melt-in-your-mouth texture, and deep-bodied caramelized flavour.

Alberta Beef is famous all over the world, and part of that fame is the from way it is finished, on barley. Barley is a crop well suited to Alberta's short growing season and cooler climate. In other provinces and countries, beef are often finished on corn, distillers grains and other feed products, which (in our opinion) do not yield the same high quality product that barley does.