What does grass-finished mean?
Finishing is the term for the four to six months prior to harvest when the cattle are putting on weight and building flavorful muscle and fat. Their feed regimen during this time helps define the flavor of the meat and the marbling of the fat. Cattle are grass-eaters by nature so they seek out the richest forage they can find. We time our breeding cycles so that the animals mature in the spring and early summer. At the Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, the grass is green well into May or June, and the pastures are so vast that the animals can find ample nutritious feed so that they finish on grass. Grass-finishing ensures a pure grass-fed flavor and means the animals are never confined or fed hay or grain during this period.
