Welcome to Meadow Oaks!
Welcome to our website, we raise and sell Grass-fed angus beef for Indiana and Illinois!
We are the Walkers... Greg, Lynn, Lauren and Ian. Lauren is in a PhD program in Neurobiology, but still pitches in when home on break. Ian recently completed Army Infantry basic training and is enrolled in Agribusiness management at Purdue University, and the National Guard ROTC program. He is actively involved in the ownership and management of the cattle. Lynn is my Hero and knows quite a bit about cattle, but doesn't want anyone to know it. I am an Ag teacher and FFA advisor and the cattle help me retain my sanity after putting up with kids all day. We run our 60 Registered Angus cows on 500 acres of pasture and sell grass fed and naturally raised freezer beef.
A word to those seeking grassfed beef. A few years ago it occurred to me that the way America is producing its food is crazy and unhealthy, for the environment and especially the American people. The emphasis on cheap food to feed the masses has resulted in increased cancer, heart disease and diabetes. I decided that I was going to be part of the solution and begin raising grassfed beef for our customers. Then Michael Pollan's books came along and the movie Food Inc. and I thought... "aah, I am not alone."
In order to do this effectively, a change in genetics for our cattle was required. So we went to Ohlde Cattle company and through AI and purchased bulls, began to produce the right kind for a grassfed beef program. We had never used herbicides and fertilizers on our pastures and had always shied away from hormone implants and antibiotics, but now the pieces were in place to produce high quality grassfed beef for Indiana and Illinois. We can supply you with not only grassfed beef by the quarter, half or whole, but breeding stock to meet your own needs for the moderate grass powered cow.
Our cows are run in a no frills manner, they are never fed grain, only grass and hay for part of the winter. We extend the grazing season as much as possible, taking the cows from pasture around Thanksgiving time and putting them on cornstalks until sometime in February. Then they are brought home and fed hay in the barn until time to go back to pasture in April. We calve in late April and into May, so the calves are born when it is warm and the grass is green! This is better for the new babies and the cows, and cows were meant as ruminants to eat grass, not grain. Grass-fed beef can be a better eating experience than grain-fed if done right and we feel that we do it right!
Grassfed beef is a growing segment of the food industry, for a number of reasons. Here are mine:
1. The Cattle are antibiotic, hormone, and chemical free. When you choose Meadow Oaks grassfed beef, you are choosing clean food.
2. The Cattle are never confined, they enjoy the type of life they were designed to have.
3. The cattle are treated humanely, we never use hotshots or any force to work our cattle and our facilities are designed to work cattle in a low stress environment.
4. The beef that results is Good!
If you are looking for breeding stock to produce your own grass-fed beef, give us a look.
Enjoy the website, we are new at this web thing, need better pictures and that will change as time goes by, feel free to contact us.