Nex-Gen Farm

We are pleased to bring our locally grown product from our farm to your family. We strive to make our meat the tastiest and freshest meat around. Our small family works hard to breed for 'next generation livestock'. We look at 'next generation livestock' to include the following. 1. Increased feed efficient (require less food to gain weight) 2. Increased marbling (the white fat flecks in your steak that make your steak tender, juice and melt in your mouth) 3. Decrease in-excess fat - excess fat is waste 4. Increased dressing percentage - more meat per animal 5. Consistent Size 6. Docility - easily managed or handled 7. Sustainability - Making more meat, and better meat with less resources (food, fuel, water, time) is one way we strive to be a sustainable farmstead. ​Why are we breeding for these things? Here in New York and across the country we already have a shortage of farmland. That shortage will only increase and the population and food demand increases as well. More houses, more roads, more stores but less farmland every year. So we as farmers have to think how can we get more food while using less resources. Thanks to countless years and lots of mathematics, data from EPDs (expected progeny difference - yes very technical and complicated collection of data from the animals we own), have made it possible to select for certain traits. We have the ability to select what sire to breed to our cow on an individualized basis that has a huge amount of marbling to so we can keep that high tender marbling to a bull that we selected that is very feed efficient. That means that cow is going to eat a salad of summer pasture and gain weight at a higher rate than a less feed efficient cow that eats the same amount of summer pasture. Making more with less meat with less resources both grass and time. To help in with animal managment we breed for docility. Cows that stress easily, loose weight more rapidly, get sick more often and take more time to work with. The more we can do to make their lives happier and less stressful, the better quality the meat is. We do not give our animals any growth hormones, not in their feed, not injectable or implant, none. Our cows grow wonderfully on the food available to them and added hormones are not necessary for our farm. Our animals are given the best possible care. That means on extermely rare occasions an animal may be sick. We don't throw our hands in the air and say "let nature take its course" because we have far too much invested; financially, our time, and our hearts, we love our animals. 95% of the time the animals never need antibiotics. But if we know it will help them and definitely to save their life we do administer antibiotics to that animal. To designate an animal that has had antibiotics the corner of it's tag is cut off and records taken. Then a withdrawal time period must go by before we even consider the animal for slaughter. Typical withdrawal time period is 28 days. It may actually be a year before that animal is ready for processing. Feel free to ask us questions about our animals and our products, we love sharing why we do what we do!