Hi Pete from a fellow small Dexter farmer in Ireland. I follow you since you had less than 200 subscribers. Great to see your numbers went up a lot this year. You and your family do a fantastic job on your farm and youtube. We share the same principles and raise Dexters, pigs and hens on pasture. Just as you say the breed and how you raise them makes a huge difference. Farmers like us have to work hard to get the well deserved return. Thank You for sharing your views and learnings with all of us and help people educate why small farms are the future!
The United States has to feed entire Cities should be duly noted....so "ripping into the truck driver"(distribution) is straight up wrong should be noted. The farmer don't eat either without the truck driver. I'll stick with my Yuengling Beer thank you much when I need a meal in the first...and neither you nor I do not as the Bible says. I can go out and kill a wild deer right off my deck tomorrow and it will taste better than anything raised on any farm anywhere on Earth let alone the USA. Fishing and crabbing is a lot harder I've noticed but again...read your Bible. "To eat less food period is to be healthy." No such thing as too much Gatorade either should be noted if you're doing actual field work as a Farmer as well. "Dying of thirst" is not a form of expression.
True story: we immigrated from Eastern Europe to Canada. I was young, but My parents said everything lacked flavor. Bread, buns, milk, cheese, meat, eggs, veggies, fruit. I heard that for many years after we landed. Now we grow our own as much as possible.
I grew up in Eastern Europe too and my family moved to the US in the 80s. My parents were farmers and the food tasted so much better than the stuff we buy here at the store. My husband and I have 5 chickens for eggs. Next year we would like to raise some chickens for meat. We have our own garden too.
True story! Even when you see exotic meats at the store they are in a bag with some kind of marinade or rub all over them. What's wrong with the flavor of just the meat with a little salt?!
The first time I saw a pasture raised egg compared to a grocery store egg, I switched to pasture raised. What a difference!! They taste like the eggs I used to eat in the U.K. We have been cheated and taught to eat garbage food instead of healthy food. Blessings.
Definitely could taste the difference when my family was butchering our own cows compared to meat from a super market. I also agree fresh fruit from the plant is a lot nicer as well.
I found your channel a few weeks ago, and trying to binge watch the videos. This one really made me think. During the pandemic and with the food shortages, this route has been in my mind, but seeing this video, I researched local farms in my community that sale at our local farmers market and I'm looking forward to this Saturday shopping and buying in a new way for me. We have a few raised beds and have enjoyed growing some vegetables for us, and I've always loved going to farmers markets, buy never committed to get my meats and eggs from there. It's on now! LOL. Thank you! We love watching your channel from NC.
Amen to all of that Pete. We raise our food for ourselves. Tried selling some locally, but people mostly aren't willing to pay a premium price for premium food, so we quit trying to educate them.
This is quite the eye-opening lesson on the quality of mass produced meat and eggs vs that produced by small farms and sold at farmer’s markets. Thank you. I’m now going to search the area where I live for farmer’s markets.
We are slowly working towards at a minimum, growing our own meat and eggs and produce. We currently buy pork and beef from local ranches. About 5 yrs ago, I bought my first local beef. The first steaks we cooked took me back to childhood when "real" meat was available in the grocery stores. Thanks for the great videos and inspiration. My biggest take away from all your videos is, I'm gonna need more land
I was skeptical before we started our small farm the first food ready was eggs I couldn’t believe the color. My wife started selling that at work she’s a medical assistant and I had to ask her to slow down bc our family was buying eggs because we were sold out of our own needles to say I was a 100% believer after this and everything in this video is so true we have old spots and Spanish turkeys all better btw turkeys are the best examples of taste difference your videos are amazing 🤩
What's happened to the farming industry in Oz? I'm in the Uk and was surprised after the Brexit debacle to see not only concerns about American farming methods being imported, but Australian. I'd assumed that Aussie methods would have remained traditional but it sounds like large 'finishing' lots for cattle are prevalent? It's all very interesting.
@@sroberts605 Finishing lots in Oz aren't common at all! The cows go from the farm to the auction yards and then to slaughter, just as usual. If you buy MSA meat, you can track it back to the farm it came from, no sweat at all. :) Where the big supermarkets get their meat from though, is anyone's guess.
Way to go! Give 'em some stick, Pete, give 'em some stick. That's telling it like it is. The big store products are disgustingly tasteless and I blame a lot of this on the various State University food laboratories . I've worked in them. Sold their souls and produced long-lasting garbage for their supermarket paymasters. As an example, we once could buy delicious and aromatic tomatoes; now they are rock hard and tasteless, and they should sell them to the Navy as designer cannon balls. And dont dare to read the frightening list of chemicals they cram into this crap. Well done, Pete.
robert leigh...I loved it: "...designer cannon balls." A new weapon against the enemy....kill them with tasteless food full of chemicals...the ultimate chemical warfare..!!
Its called supply and demand. To supply our fixation with meat = mass production fresh veggies = practicality shipping harvesting. The quality suffers. But that person on limited income has to buy it or do without. So lets be fair he produces a quality product but doesn't feed people beyond a small nich. Not saying you are wrong but we can't go back to 1960 only visit not practical.
This is the most important video of this channel. And it even goes beyond taste, it affects the environment and the maintenance of our farmland. Bravo!
My parents used raised hogs until about 15 years ago. They are a relatively small farm. I think we had 2 herds of about 15-20 sows each. Our pigs wen't raised on grass, but they did spend most of their lives on dirt (the sows were only in crates when the pigs were born mostly to minimize how many were squished and were still let out to eat and drink). We hauled them to the sale barn on the back of our pickup most of my childhood. Anyway - it was pretty apparent the buyers could tell the kind of live our pigs lived just by looking at them. Ours frequently took the highest bid the days we had pigs at the auction. They eventually gave up because they didn't have the volume to compete with factor producers on price. I don't think they ever considered direct-to-consumer sales. We're in a pretty low population area, which would make it hard anyway and I don't think they wanted to have to deal with people every weekend.
We recently purchased some property and our neighbor raises beef cattle. I’m hoping to talk with him about purchasing a beef and then have it sent to the butcher and cut out the middleman and get some quality meat and support a local farmer. If I lived close to you I would do the same. Thanks for the content.
This is so true. I've found every product I've bought from a regenerative farm has tasted much better than anything I bought previously, including a steak I got at a steak restaurant in March. That includes cheese, milk, and butter, btw. I've even switched to raw cream and milk from a dairy about 110 miles from here that is moving their cows to fresh grass every day, and their products are delicious. It's a great feeling thinking what little I do eat (I'm a widow) is grown in a manner that helps the earth rather than depleting it of fertility. And the animals are very happy, too. And btw, I never really had raw milk before, but I'm on my second half gallon, and it hasn't killed me yet or made me sick. :) It's nice to know I'm getting the real deal while I support a regenerative ranch. Very nice!
Pete I really enjoy the videos you are providing. This was the first time i was a little set back and only one statement. We also run a very small beef operation here in Wisconsin, 100% grass fed and grass finished farm to table. Your reference to the Angus breed, we raise Red Angus is somewhat of an personal opinion. Ours are not the commercial size nor breeding but a throw back to the original size before the commercial ranchers meddled with them. Much small and do wonderfully on our grass. Agree on the 15 months for the commercial Angus as ours are 25 months minimum before I would call finished. So your point regarding how the animals are raised and treated are even more evident in our case. Sorry but just like you and the Dexter breed I am very passionate regarding the "original Angus" breed when it comes to temperament, mothering and flourishing in a complete grass pasture environment.
Hi, I was referring to the common commercial Black Angus, and the breed marketing campaign that has resulted in valuing black cattle (really of any breed, as long as they're black) based on a mistaken assumption Angus beef is better than Hereford and other beef breeds. My understanding is that the traditional Angus grass genetics are a whole different ball game and much more flavorful.
I agree! I go to the supermarket every year and it some years it’s okay some years it’s bland. Then I go to my mothers or grandfathers he has a garden and his thing were fantastic, my grandfather had a farm very similar to yours. He had a lot of farms an Allie charmers and a David brown. The David brown is still running today with the original engine and not many major fixes so far, just minor changes. Also it looks like breeds of pigs have to be raised in the right state or you don’t get good meet... Anyway thanks for the video Pete, I love these sort of videos, they are a lot more in depth, I showed my friends your channel and I brought 5 more people to your channel and I am just thankful for what you teach us! Thanks Pete have a good day!
Excellent video/s, I grew up om a small farm in Cornwall, England back in the 50's & 60's, your farm reminds of those days, we had about a dozen milking cows, we kept some milk for ourselves and made clotted cream the rest was sent to the Milk Marketing Board, our cows were guernseys, jerseys, shorthorns the old breeds same with our pigs, saddleback, landrace & Large white they lived free range often farrowing outdoors, all our poultry was free range, chickens, geese, ducks & turkeys, we knew where most of the eggs were laid but often went hunting for new egg nests, surplus eggs were sent to the egg marketing board, we would eat what ever eggs were available, I have had boiled, fried and scrambled turkey & goose eggs, when I tell my children and grandchildren they are bemused, we grew our own hay, and cut rough pasture with rushes and ferns in for animal bedding, initially hay was cut by a horse drawn mower the gearing worked off the wheels, the hay was carried in loose on a horse drawn wagon and put into ricks, we had several pieces of equipment all horse drawn, later on we bought and old Standard Fordson which started on petrol, when the engine was warm it was switched over to TVO, the horse's became redundant and were sold, the horse shafts on the equipment were sawn off and tractors hitches fitted.
Amazing videos. I believe this happen a lot more in the states than in my country, Spain. Unless if you go to big supermarket to buy meat, which I don’t. The small supermarkets here usuallly have a butcher independent inside. When I studied my degree (economics they told me that this happen because of the fast food restaurants. They increase the way to do it and made it cheaper. So after that they went to their meat suppliers and said, if we did it fast and cheap, you must do it too
Heck yeah it does! Just like you said, you know what they eat and how they taking care of!! We drive 1.5 hours inland to pick up our beef, pig, lamb, birds, etc at a family farm/butcher that been around since 1700's here in NC!!
When I worked in military commissaries, that steak of yours with the big bone was called a "pin-bone" steak. They were never put out for sale, but we squirreled them away for our own purchases.
We raised Red Wattle X Large Black. We'd give pork to our older kids for gifts. Our son-in-law made som at a BBQ and his friends there swore it was beef and couldn't believe the color and taste.
I grew up being self sufficient , really like you’re videos a lot of valuable information thank you, your products are by far better, good luck and god bless
There was a time that people went to the market for flour, sugar and coffee; maybe some spices. Everything else they raised on the family farm. We can't go back to that time but your approach in marketing maybe the closet thing to what my parents experienced on the family farm. Thank you for your insightful information..😎
Excellent review and presentation. Another point I think about is preservatives, substances added to large commercial enterprises products. Cancer is so pervasive in our country; maybe it’s safe and maybe it’s not but how do you really know as a consumer. I trust Pete’s products and organic methods as safe food to consume not withstanding how delicious it is.
Your absolutely right Pete that’s why I want to start my own family farm because I know and can tell the difference here in Idaho especially when I go to the farmers markets
I'm thankful to all the small farms doing what is best for consumer and the animals. Thank you for bringing awareness to this problem. I don't see it being fixed in my life time but maybe at some point.
So. Much. Wisdom! Can't thank you and yours enough, Pete! This reply is in 2022 so we all know the challenges of the current time. I hope more and more people watch these videos and take a little knowledge away from them so that they can have more control over their food and happiness.
I live in a small town, more urban and rural, and I started a garden and bought some chicks in April 2020, just because I was worried about food security for my family during a time of uncertain future. I will never go back to store-bought eggs or produce! I am getting ready to purchase a very small farm (5 acres) and will be raising some heritage hogs for meat and a few Dexters for meat and milk. I so appreciate your insight and knowledge, and inspiration! Thank you!!
Well done Pete ! I really enjoy your videos. I was inspired by Joel saleton about a 10 years ago, and I've heard you speak of him as well. I totally agree with letting the animal live the way they're intended to. The animals are so much more healthier and we are too by the food they produce. Keep up the good work !
Dear Sir, I am convinced for the difference between small farm eggs, chickens & other meat products. Thanks for Valuable, Efficient, Effective Information for our community Citizens.
Not only looks and taste but nutrition! The produce thats picked before its ripened, the animals that have never been able to pasture and soak up the sunlight are all missing key nutrients that we all need. Keep up the great work and thanks for being inspirational.
Pete I loved your message- your vegetable and meat comparisons were spot on- your primary function should be to educate because you do it so well - modern food production is main reason our health and well being is a losing battle - remember the old adage “ you are what you eat”
Surprised you didn't mention modern corn. I can't even digest it. When I was a kid August was my favorite month because we got to eat fresh corn on the cob from local farms multiple times per week.
You are such a inspiration I love watching your videos you are very knowledgeable and seem to know about little bit of everything on the farm I’ve always wanted to live on a farm never hadOpportunity but just watching you I really enjoy it so keep up the good work you and your wife and your sweet babies and don’t worry what all the bad people say I’m just now southern girl from Alabama
You did a nice job on the difference and it really does have a huge difference in how the breed of the animal makes a huge difference. The only thing you forgot (IMO) is this country has and still continues a cheap food policy. The reason is more to provide people with money to purchase other products. For example might be how many people need 4 TV'S. Maybe a poor example. However, cheap food helps pay for more luxury's.
Same thing in Canada. I drive from Ottawa to the Maritime provinces (1000 KM) and along the highway I see nothing but fast food restaurants. I stop into the grocery store to buy quality fruit and vegetables and leave disappointed. I call the drive the junk food corridor. So yes, it is a worldwide experience.
I grew up in the city, we did have family that raised cows, pigs, eggs, chickens and they had a horse corral for the horses they liked to show. Get to know your small farmer and buy from them as much as you can. We split a whole beef every year. And we got chicken and eggs. We were lucky, today we are lucky to have a independent butcher who has sent use to some farms to talk to the farmers. We see the animals and are welcome to come visit anytime we want. They have some time restrictions because they have to. We go out and pick our beef. The farm sends it with our name on the animal and we are called when we can come pick up our meat. Get as close to your food as you can.
This principle follows through on almost everything: meat, vegetables, fruits, herbs, furniture, tools, lumber, etc. Find a craftsman, farmer, producer or manufacturer as local as possible, it's almost always more expensive but almost always superior in every way: flavor, quality, durability. My spinach lasts 6-8 weeks after cut in the fridge, can't even get 6-8 days with stuff from the store.
@@daddio7249 Indeed, time is also flavor and sustainability. The business imperative is clear, but ultimately the consumer pays an “acceptable price” for an inferior product. I think largely we’ve forgotten what good food tastes like and feels like and if we remind ourselves we realize the crap at the grocery is exactly what we’re paying for.
@@levishaw9345 If it was more profitable to stock the bins with higher priced but tastier produce supermarkets would. Entrepreneurs could open chains of organic stores and become billionaires. Alas the few such stores can only make a profit in large cities. Out in the country you have to grow your own. Not that most could not afford such food even if it was available.
I raise domesticated red jungle fowl( cause that's native to where I live india) in foraging system. And people buy it at 4 times the price of commercial Broiler chickens. It does take a lot more time for them to grow. But people buy it because of it's taste and use of very little medicine and antibiotics.
Awesome video, thank you for your service to this country!!!! I agree, small farm food is better in every possible way and needs to become they way of the future!!!!!
Good show. Thank you for the information. I have known for years about fruits and vegetables but the meats and eggs I didn't know. I bet you have the best-tasting meats that are out of this world. I wish I lived by your farmer's market. I would be buying from you all the time.
This was a very interesting comparison to me. I work at the Ag Research Farm located at the college I'm attending. While I'm not an Ag Major, I've always enjoyed agriculture, but I've never been around animals much. All that has changed in the past 6 months though. We pasture our sows during the summertime, but we don't finish our market pigs on grass, and I was amazed by the difference. They aren't in a dark, enclosed area either, but rather a dirt floor barn with some grain feeders in it. They do get to root at least. We raise Yorkshire, Hampshire, Duroc and Berkshire breeds, as well as cross-breeding them. It's all new to me, but I'm loving it, mostly lol.
We bought a quarter cow from a local farm this summer and wow, the steaks are SO good, the flavor is very different and what struck me was, you have a steak, it DOES NOT SHRINK really if it's fresh :) the store's is so pumped full of juices to up the weight and shrinks a lot.
@@JohnDeere8370r Dunno about cows. But i know in my neighboring country of sweden they are allowed to pump chicken breast full of saltwater. When i put Norwegian chicken breast and swedish next to eachother. It looks like the swedish one is off a turkey or something. Its huge. Its alot of profit in selling saltwater. If you can sell 150 grams of meat and 150 grams of saltwater to the price of 300grams of meat. Thats a nobrainer if its allowed. Thankfully its not allowed in Norway :P But modern bacon is often made with injecting "smoke flavor" and they load the meat with water, salt and smoke flavor. Instead of actually smoking/curing it.
@@MrDanisve They do that in the US as well. I've seen it often at Walmart for both chicken and pork (can't remember specifically about beef). The percentage of salt water solution will be listed on the packaging. Then when you cook it, it shrinks a bit as the salt water gets cooked out. Unfortunately some of the juices/flavor runs out with it.
This subject on taste is great but you should do one on the health benefits differences. How free range eggs are higher in this and that compared to factory eggs, beef and pork.
Hi Pete from a fellow small Dexter farmer in Ireland. I follow you since you had less than 200 subscribers. Great to see your numbers went up a lot this year. You and your family do a fantastic job on your farm and youtube.
We share the same principles and raise Dexters, pigs and hens on pasture. Just as you say the breed and how you raise them makes a huge difference. Farmers like us have to work hard to get the well deserved return. Thank You for sharing your views and learnings with all of us and help people educate why small farms are the future!
Everything stated is true. I love the conviction to your craft sir.
Folks, go to your farmers market and enjoy.
The United States has to feed entire Cities should be duly noted....so "ripping into the truck driver"(distribution) is straight up wrong should be noted. The farmer don't eat either without the truck driver.
I'll stick with my Yuengling Beer thank you much when I need a meal in the first...and neither you nor I do not as the Bible says. I can go out and kill a wild deer right off my deck tomorrow and it will taste better than anything raised on any farm anywhere on Earth let alone the USA. Fishing and crabbing is a lot harder I've noticed but again...read your Bible. "To eat less food period is to be healthy." No such thing as too much Gatorade either should be noted if you're doing actual field work as a Farmer as well. "Dying of thirst" is not a form of expression.
Boil on reply for nothing all he's saying is home growing or homemade is much better than store-bought I agree that's all he was saying
The small farm beef just looks so much more tasty.
Because it is.
Got a freezer full of grass fed local beef. Could never get tired of eating it. Buy local and save up to buy it in bulk
@@kellenwilliams6836 it’s cheaper to buy local in bulk where I’m located. We’ve always bought 1/2 a pig and 1/4 cow
True story: we immigrated from Eastern Europe to Canada. I was young, but My parents said everything lacked flavor. Bread, buns, milk, cheese, meat, eggs, veggies, fruit. I heard that for many years after we landed. Now we grow our own as much as possible.
I grew up in Eastern Europe too and my family moved to the US in the 80s. My parents were farmers and the food tasted so much better than the stuff we buy here at the store. My husband and I have 5 chickens for eggs. Next year we would like to raise some chickens for meat. We have our own garden too.
From where you immigrated?
The blandness in USA food might explain why literary every time I see somebody cooking it’s smothered in some type of source or dry flavour mix.
True story! Even when you see exotic meats at the store they are in a bag with some kind of marinade or rub all over them. What's wrong with the flavor of just the meat with a little salt?!
bland is only how you cook.
I think that explains it the best, my beef gets a pinch of salt and pepper and that’s it
The first time I saw a pasture raised egg compared to a grocery store egg, I switched to pasture raised. What a difference!! They taste like the eggs I used to eat in the U.K. We have been cheated and taught to eat garbage food instead of healthy food. Blessings.
Hey, man. My wife and I just started our first farmstead on 6.6 acres. I watched this vid and subbed right away. Looking forward to learning.
Definitely could taste the difference when my family was butchering our own cows compared to meat from a super market. I also agree fresh fruit from the plant is a lot nicer as well.
I found your channel a few weeks ago, and trying to binge watch the videos. This one really made me think. During the pandemic and with the food shortages, this route has been in my mind, but seeing this video, I researched local farms in my community that sale at our local farmers market and I'm looking forward to this Saturday shopping and buying in a new way for me. We have a few raised beds and have enjoyed growing some vegetables for us, and I've always loved going to farmers markets, buy never committed to get my meats and eggs from there. It's on now! LOL. Thank you! We love watching your channel from NC.
Amen to all of that Pete. We raise our food for ourselves. Tried selling some locally, but people mostly aren't willing to pay a premium price for premium food, so we quit trying to educate them.
This is quite the eye-opening lesson on the quality of mass produced meat and eggs vs that produced by small farms and sold at farmer’s markets. Thank you. I’m now going to search the area where I live for farmer’s markets.
We are slowly working towards at a minimum, growing our own meat and eggs and produce. We currently buy pork and beef from local ranches. About 5 yrs ago, I bought my first local beef. The first steaks we cooked took me back to childhood when "real" meat was available in the grocery stores. Thanks for the great videos and inspiration. My biggest take away from all your videos is, I'm gonna need more land
Yes. The stuff I grow tastes like freedom. Dexter beef and milk is delicious too.
I was skeptical before we started our small farm the first food ready was eggs I couldn’t believe the color. My wife started selling that at work she’s a medical assistant and I had to ask her to slow down bc our family was buying eggs because we were sold out of our own needles to say I was a 100% believer after this and everything in this video is so true we have old spots and Spanish turkeys all better btw turkeys are the best examples of taste difference your videos are amazing 🤩
Just subbed to you from Australia. As a retired professional chef, I couldn't agree with you more !!.
What's happened to the farming industry in Oz? I'm in the Uk and was surprised after the Brexit debacle to see not only concerns about American farming methods being imported, but Australian. I'd assumed that Aussie methods would have remained traditional but it sounds like large 'finishing' lots for cattle are prevalent?
It's all very interesting.
@@sroberts605 Finishing lots in Oz aren't common at all! The cows go from the farm to the auction yards and then to slaughter, just as usual. If you buy MSA meat, you can track it back to the farm it came from, no sweat at all. :) Where the big supermarkets get their meat from though, is anyone's guess.
Way to go! Give 'em some stick, Pete, give 'em some stick. That's telling it like it is. The big store products are disgustingly tasteless and I blame a lot of this on the various State University food laboratories . I've worked in them. Sold their souls and produced long-lasting garbage for their supermarket paymasters. As an example, we once could buy delicious and aromatic tomatoes; now they are rock hard and tasteless, and they should sell them to the Navy as designer cannon balls. And dont dare to read the frightening list of chemicals they cram into this crap. Well done, Pete.
robert leigh...I loved it: "...designer cannon balls." A new weapon against the enemy....kill them with tasteless food full of chemicals...the ultimate chemical warfare..!!
Its called supply and demand. To supply our fixation with meat = mass production fresh veggies = practicality shipping harvesting. The quality suffers. But that person on limited income has to buy it or do without. So lets be fair he produces a quality product but doesn't feed people beyond a small nich. Not saying you are wrong but we can't go back to 1960 only visit not practical.
Wow Pete!!! Outstanding comparison of food, and a great explanation of what goes into our food. Great video!!!!!!!
Pete you are so right they picture are worth a thousand words
This is the most important video of this channel. And it even goes beyond taste, it affects the environment and the maintenance of our farmland. Bravo!
My parents used raised hogs until about 15 years ago. They are a relatively small farm. I think we had 2 herds of about 15-20 sows each. Our pigs wen't raised on grass, but they did spend most of their lives on dirt (the sows were only in crates when the pigs were born mostly to minimize how many were squished and were still let out to eat and drink). We hauled them to the sale barn on the back of our pickup most of my childhood. Anyway - it was pretty apparent the buyers could tell the kind of live our pigs lived just by looking at them. Ours frequently took the highest bid the days we had pigs at the auction.
They eventually gave up because they didn't have the volume to compete with factor producers on price. I don't think they ever considered direct-to-consumer sales. We're in a pretty low population area, which would make it hard anyway and I don't think they wanted to have to deal with people every weekend.
We recently purchased some property and our neighbor raises beef cattle. I’m hoping to talk with him about purchasing a beef and then have it sent to the butcher and cut out the middleman and get some quality meat and support a local farmer. If I lived close to you I would do the same. Thanks for the content.
This is so true. I've found every product I've bought from a regenerative farm has tasted much better than anything I bought previously, including a steak I got at a steak restaurant in March. That includes cheese, milk, and butter, btw. I've even switched to raw cream and milk from a dairy about 110 miles from here that is moving their cows to fresh grass every day, and their products are delicious. It's a great feeling thinking what little I do eat (I'm a widow) is grown in a manner that helps the earth rather than depleting it of fertility. And the animals are very happy, too.
And btw, I never really had raw milk before, but I'm on my second half gallon, and it hasn't killed me yet or made me sick. :) It's nice to know I'm getting the real deal while I support a regenerative ranch. Very nice!
Pete I really enjoy the videos you are providing. This was the first time i was a little set back and only one statement. We also run a very small beef operation here in Wisconsin, 100% grass fed and grass finished farm to table. Your reference to the Angus breed, we raise Red Angus is somewhat of an personal opinion. Ours are not the commercial size nor breeding but a throw back to the original size before the commercial ranchers meddled with them. Much small and do wonderfully on our grass. Agree on the 15 months for the commercial Angus as ours are 25 months minimum before I would call finished. So your point regarding how the animals are raised and treated are even more evident in our case. Sorry but just like you and the Dexter breed I am very passionate regarding the "original Angus" breed when it comes to temperament, mothering and flourishing in a complete grass pasture environment.
Hi, I was referring to the common commercial Black Angus, and the breed marketing campaign that has resulted in valuing black cattle (really of any breed, as long as they're black) based on a mistaken assumption Angus beef is better than Hereford and other beef breeds. My understanding is that the traditional Angus grass genetics are a whole different ball game and much more flavorful.
I agree! I go to the supermarket every year and it some years it’s okay some years it’s bland. Then I go to my mothers or grandfathers he has a garden and his thing were fantastic, my grandfather had a farm very similar to yours. He had a lot of farms an Allie charmers and a David brown. The David brown is still running today with the original engine and not many major fixes so far, just minor changes. Also it looks like breeds of pigs have to be raised in the right state or you don’t get good meet... Anyway thanks for the video Pete, I love these sort of videos, they are a lot more in depth, I showed my friends your channel and I brought 5 more people to your channel and I am just thankful for what you teach us! Thanks Pete have a good day!
“It’s just nasty!” I couldn’t agree more. Great video Pete!
Excellent video/s, I grew up om a small farm in Cornwall, England back in the 50's & 60's, your farm reminds of those days, we had about a dozen milking cows, we kept some milk for ourselves and made clotted cream the rest was sent to the Milk Marketing Board, our cows were guernseys, jerseys, shorthorns the old breeds same with our pigs, saddleback, landrace & Large white they lived free range often farrowing outdoors, all our poultry was free range, chickens, geese, ducks & turkeys, we knew where most of the eggs were laid but often went hunting for new egg nests, surplus eggs were sent to the egg marketing board, we would eat what ever eggs were available, I have had boiled, fried and scrambled turkey & goose eggs, when I tell my children and grandchildren they are bemused, we grew our own hay, and cut rough pasture with rushes and ferns in for animal bedding, initially hay was cut by a horse drawn mower the gearing worked off the wheels, the hay was carried in loose on a horse drawn wagon and put into ricks, we had several pieces of equipment all horse drawn, later on we bought and old Standard Fordson which started on petrol, when the engine was warm it was switched over to TVO, the horse's became redundant and were sold, the horse shafts on the equipment were sawn off and tractors hitches fitted.
I love how excited you get when you talk about things you are passionate about.
Amazing videos.
I believe this happen a lot more in the states than in my country, Spain. Unless if you go to big supermarket to buy meat, which I don’t.
The small supermarkets here usuallly have a butcher independent inside.
When I studied my degree (economics they told me that this happen because of the fast food restaurants. They increase the way to do it and made it cheaper. So after that they went to their meat suppliers and said, if we did it fast and cheap, you must do it too
Heck yeah it does! Just like you said, you know what they eat and how they taking care of!! We drive 1.5 hours inland to pick up our beef, pig, lamb, birds, etc at a family farm/butcher that been around since 1700's here in NC!!
When I worked in military commissaries, that steak of yours with the big bone was called a "pin-bone" steak. They were never put out for sale, but we squirreled them away for our own purchases.
We raised Red Wattle X Large Black. We'd give pork to our older kids for gifts. Our son-in-law made som at a BBQ and his friends there swore it was beef and couldn't believe the color and taste.
I grew up being self sufficient , really like you’re videos a lot of valuable information thank you, your products are by far better, good luck and god bless
There was a time that people went to the market for flour, sugar and coffee; maybe some spices. Everything else they raised on the family farm.
We can't go back to that time but your approach in marketing maybe the closet thing to what my parents experienced on the family farm.
Thank you for your insightful information..😎
So true on better taste on home grown food, vegetables, and farm fresh eggs.
Love your videos, nothing beats home grown food.
Excellent review and presentation. Another point I think about is preservatives, substances added to large commercial enterprises products. Cancer is so pervasive in our country; maybe it’s safe and maybe it’s not but how do you really know as a consumer. I trust Pete’s products and organic methods as safe food to consume not withstanding how delicious it is.
Your absolutely right Pete that’s why I want to start my own family farm because I know and can tell the difference here in Idaho especially when I go to the farmers markets
I'm thankful to all the small farms doing what is best for consumer and the animals. Thank you for bringing awareness to this problem. I don't see it being fixed in my life time but maybe at some point.
So. Much. Wisdom! Can't thank you and yours enough, Pete!
This reply is in 2022 so we all know the challenges of the current time. I hope more and more people watch these videos and take a little knowledge away from them so that they can have more control over their food and happiness.
I live in a small town, more urban and rural, and I started a garden and bought some chicks in April 2020, just because I was worried about food security for my family during a time of uncertain future. I will never go back to store-bought eggs or produce! I am getting ready to purchase a very small farm (5 acres) and will be raising some heritage hogs for meat and a few Dexters for meat and milk. I so appreciate your insight and knowledge, and inspiration! Thank you!!
Omg the difference is incredible. Your food looks amazing I can't believe I feed my family food from the store this is a eye opener thank you
Love your marketing approach. Reminds me of the way things used to be growing up.
Could not agree more with what you have to say!! Keep the great videos coming, watching from Tasmania, down under. 🙂🙂
Well done Pete ! I really enjoy your videos.
I was inspired by Joel saleton about a 10 years ago, and I've heard you speak of him as well. I totally agree with letting the animal live the way they're intended to. The animals are so much more healthier and we are too by the food they produce.
Keep up the good work !
Doing a great job Pete!! My wife and I love watching your videos
Dear Sir, I am convinced for the difference between small farm eggs, chickens & other meat products. Thanks for Valuable, Efficient, Effective Information for our community Citizens.
Hi Mr. Pete! You can't beat homegrown.
Not only looks and taste but nutrition! The produce thats picked before its ripened, the animals that have never been able to pasture and soak up the sunlight are all missing key nutrients that we all need. Keep up the great work and thanks for being inspirational.
I just love listening to you I can listen to you all day if I could but thank u do much Pete !! You make America great again
Pete I loved your message- your vegetable and meat comparisons were spot on- your primary function should be to educate because you do it so well - modern food production is main reason our health and well being is a losing battle - remember the old adage “ you are what you eat”
Well said from an small irish beef farmer
Very good points Pete. My neighbors can tell the difference between my vegetables and store-bought vegetables.
Surprised you didn't mention modern corn. I can't even digest it. When I was a kid August was my favorite month because we got to eat fresh corn on the cob from local farms multiple times per week.
Fantastic video. So much good information that unfortunately doesn’t make it to the general public!
You are such a inspiration I love watching your videos you are very knowledgeable and seem to know about little bit of everything on the farm I’ve always wanted to live on a farm never hadOpportunity but just watching you I really enjoy it so keep up the good work you and your wife and your sweet babies and don’t worry what all the bad people say I’m just now southern girl from Alabama
God bless Pete and yours and Godspeed!
You did a nice job on the difference and it really does have a huge difference in how the breed of the animal makes a huge difference. The only thing you forgot (IMO) is this country has and still continues a cheap food policy. The reason is more to provide people with money to purchase other products. For example might be how many people need 4 TV'S. Maybe a poor example. However, cheap food helps pay for more luxury's.
I agree not just taste better but is *HEALTHIER* too! Great video!
Love this video. Your food is totally worth it and i think your the most reasonably priced vendor at the farmers market
It’s not just America I’m in Northern Ireland and find the same.
Same thing in Canada. I drive from Ottawa to the Maritime provinces (1000 KM) and along the highway I see nothing but fast food restaurants. I stop into the grocery store to buy quality fruit and vegetables and leave disappointed. I call the drive the junk food corridor. So yes, it is a worldwide experience.
Same in Ireland
I LOVE YOUR EXCITEMENT ! And even though I giggled a little at you,,,, you are 110% RIGHT ! May God bless you and your family and farm. Blessings !!!
WELL SAID MATE!! ✌👌👍👍👍
CHEERS FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
I grew up in the city, we did have family that raised cows, pigs, eggs, chickens and they had a horse corral for the horses they liked to show. Get to know your small farmer and buy from them as much as you can. We split a whole beef every year. And we got chicken and eggs. We were lucky, today we are lucky to have a independent butcher who has sent use to some farms to talk to the farmers. We see the animals and are welcome to come visit anytime we want. They have some time restrictions because they have to. We go out and pick our beef. The farm sends it with our name on the animal and we are called when we can come pick up our meat. Get as close to your food as you can.
This principle follows through on almost everything: meat, vegetables, fruits, herbs, furniture, tools, lumber, etc. Find a craftsman, farmer, producer or manufacturer as local as possible, it's almost always more expensive but almost always superior in every way: flavor, quality, durability. My spinach lasts 6-8 weeks after cut in the fridge, can't even get 6-8 days with stuff from the store.
First that spinach has been cut for a week or more already. Second they use more nitrogen to get faster growth, time is money.
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@@daddio7249 Indeed, time is also flavor and sustainability. The business imperative is clear, but ultimately the consumer pays an “acceptable price” for an inferior product. I think largely we’ve forgotten what good food tastes like and feels like and if we remind ourselves we realize the crap at the grocery is exactly what we’re paying for.
@@levishaw9345 If it was more profitable to stock the bins with higher priced but tastier produce supermarkets would. Entrepreneurs could open chains of organic stores and become billionaires.
Alas the few such stores can only make a profit in large cities. Out in the country you have to grow your own. Not that most could not afford such food even if it was available.
same here, even better in my root cellar
I raise domesticated red jungle fowl( cause that's native to where I live india) in foraging system. And people buy it at 4 times the price of commercial Broiler chickens. It does take a lot more time for them to grow. But people buy it because of it's taste and use of very little medicine and antibiotics.
Awesome video, thank you for your service to this country!!!! I agree, small farm food is better in every possible way and needs to become they way of the future!!!!!
am in the philipines, likes your job very interesting, i manage the rice farm from our great grand parents now monitoring your every stories....
Good show. Thank you for the information. I have known for years about fruits and vegetables but the meats and eggs I didn't know. I bet you have the best-tasting meats that are out of this world. I wish I lived by your farmer's market. I would be buying from you all the time.
Hey Pete, I 100% agree with you, I live in Westchester NY, I wish I could live close to ur farm and buy all the products
Great vid Pete. Hope your channel continues to grow.
Well said - local farm food every time !!
everyone in the world needs to watch this!
I'm right there with you on everything you said.
Love your videos and passion for old school farming from 30s and 40s
Wow! You're so right and the next time I'm headed to the Farmers market to get what I need! Great video!
It is easy to believe in the quality and your passion shows through on this topic.
This was a very interesting comparison to me. I work at the Ag Research Farm located at the college I'm attending. While I'm not an Ag Major, I've always enjoyed agriculture, but I've never been around animals much. All that has changed in the past 6 months though. We pasture our sows during the summertime, but we don't finish our market pigs on grass, and I was amazed by the difference. They aren't in a dark, enclosed area either, but rather a dirt floor barn with some grain feeders in it. They do get to root at least. We raise Yorkshire, Hampshire, Duroc and Berkshire breeds, as well as cross-breeding them. It's all new to me, but I'm loving it, mostly lol.
We bought a quarter cow from a local farm this summer and wow, the steaks are SO good, the flavor is very different and what struck me was, you have a steak, it DOES NOT SHRINK really if it's fresh :) the store's is so pumped full of juices to up the weight and shrinks a lot.
A whole 1/4 of a cow wow you can eat alot
lol
What juices do they put it in bs
@@JohnDeere8370r Dunno about cows. But i know in my neighboring country of sweden they are allowed to pump chicken breast full of saltwater.
When i put Norwegian chicken breast and swedish next to eachother. It looks like the swedish one is off a turkey or something. Its huge.
Its alot of profit in selling saltwater. If you can sell 150 grams of meat and 150 grams of saltwater to the price of 300grams of meat. Thats a nobrainer if its allowed.
Thankfully its not allowed in Norway :P
But modern bacon is often made with injecting "smoke flavor" and they load the meat with water, salt and smoke flavor. Instead of actually smoking/curing it.
@@MrDanisve They do that in the US as well. I've seen it often at Walmart for both chicken and pork (can't remember specifically about beef). The percentage of salt water solution will be listed on the packaging. Then when you cook it, it shrinks a bit as the salt water gets cooked out. Unfortunately some of the juices/flavor runs out with it.
Awesome amount of information and education. Thank you so much for sharing that knowledge with us. Please continue your great work. Thank you.
Pete you are so right. Now what you need to do is buy a small farm near Houston, Texas and I would rush to buy from you. Take care, have a good day.
You are so correct! Love everything home grown
You are a good man. Your videos are inspirational.
Pete, I'm totally behind you and your family.....I'm so sorry you have to justify your belief....I wish I lived closer so I could purchase from you...
I always enjoy your videos, Pete!
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We have run Angus and square meter for years and we love it it tender and red like your dexter
What an excellent video. I'm looking so forward to part two. :)
This subject on taste is great but you should do one on the health benefits differences. How free range eggs are higher in this and that compared to factory eggs, beef and pork.
I love your channel from just one video !!
Nicely done.
Great video 👍 Love the video content and love love your closing comments......
Greetings from our backyard chickens and the U.K. 🙏🙏
Love your passion! Another great video!
This is a good educational Video ... Good enough to share
Ok! Pete! Ma's claro no se puede habar! Gracias! Muy valiosas tus enseñanzas! Arriba Pete! Ok. Use Google translator.
Very good Videos
You are absolutely correct ,
Wow! Great video and informative, now I wanna seek out a farmer's market!
I agree with the fact that you can bring premium products to the table, just wish everyone could experience the family farm quality
I love,the show I like how u explain everything ty Jeanette from NYC
Well said! Agree 110% with all of it!!
Hi Pete - I dare say that the ultimate consequence of commercial bulk food on our bodies is degraded health. Great video.