Farm News: Summer 2021
Greetings to all! We would like to take a moment and thank each one of you who purchase Prairie Foods products. Your support keeps small, local farms alive. Let us also take a moment and thank the Creator of all food and let us be reminded that without His mercy, no food could be grown and ask Him to give us wisdom to be a good steward of the soil he has placed in our care, so we can continue to grow food that is nutritious our bodies and minds.
Since this is our first newsletter, we would like to take a little time to introduce ourselves.
Pricing has been a very challenging part so far and since we're still in the early stages of our retail side of things, prices may change without notice. We have spent a lot of time trying to find a fair price and we wish we could offer this high quality food at the same price Walmart does, but in order to do that we would not be profitable and all would be in vain. In order for us to continue to be in business, we need a healthy profit but we don't want to be greedy. It seems like a lot of hidden costs keep popping up all the time no matter how hard we try to make sure we have everything covered. The prices you will find enclosed are a result of a lot of record keeping and some guesses, so hopefully we can keep them at that price or maybe even lower once we get everything in place. But at the same time if we see we're not making money on a certain item we need to raise our price. So thanks for you patience while we get things ironed out. Also remember that prices are considerably cheaper when you buy by the whole or half rather than individual cuts.
So far a cool spring and some dry weather has kept the grass at about 50% less than a normal year, so we're not over our heads in grass like a lot of years, but we still managed to get some hay made and we have grass stock piled for the summer slump. Health conditions on the cows has been excellent with no losses so far and even the flies haven't really been bothering them. The dry weather does help with fly control, as well as the three different kinds of swallows on the farm. That is always one of our highlights, watching hundreds of swallows swooping over the cow herd while we're out moving them.