A whole, half or quarter beef sounds like a lot of meat! Typically, you can estimate 1 cubic foot per 35 lbs of packaged meat. This means that for a quarter beef from our farm (about 85 lbs take home beef) you'll want to have 4 cubic feet, for a half beef you'll need 8-9 cubic feet and a whole beef will need 16 cubic feet. Don't forget the other items you may be keeping in your freezer when considering storage room for your beef. Your bulk beef will keep in these conditions

As you can guess, we eat a LOT of beef around here! We are forced to get creative with our go to's. Here are three of our favorite ways to make sloppy joes with our lean ground beef: Simple Joes Ingredients: 1 lb Kollasch Family Farms Lean Ground Beef 1⁄2 onion, diced 2 (4 ounce) cans tomato sauce 1 -1 1⁄2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1⁄2 tablespoon brown sugar 1⁄2 teaspoon vinegar 1⁄4 cup ketchup 1 teaspoon chili powder to taste salt and pepper 1⁄4 teaspoon mustard (

Ag Week 2019 | Meet Kollasch Family Farms Healthy crops grow healthy livestock. On our farm we raise cattle from start to finish. Currently, we are calving about half of all of our finished cattle. Our goal is to grow our herd to provide all of our beef directly from our farm. We are focused on raising our beef naturally beginning with the mother cow. Their diet changes throughout the pregnancy as well as during the time she is feeding the calf. The calf stays with its mother

Our celebration of Ag Week Continues! Matt is a 5th generation farmer. He has followed suit of his Grandpa in raising cattle. Though his grandpa’s successful cattle operation became a thing of the past, Matt continues the tradition of raising cattle on their farm in Whittemore. He implements the same tools his grandpa used: good animal husbandry, being in tune with his cattle and providing quality feed. Matt is updating the style of beef production on the farm by combining th

With snow on the ground and temperatures below zero, many people often ask, what do cows eat in the winter?  The simple answer is hay. Most people are familiar the a cow's diet in the summer, acres oflush green grass. But what is hay? Hay is the staple forage in most cattle operations. Hay is forage (grass and alfalfa) that has been cut, dried, and made into bales.  It would be similar to us eating dried fruit, for example.  Putting up forage in this manner, a producer can st