This video has been shared on a number of other farm blogs in the last few days but for those of you that don’t frequent these other blogs I wanted to make sure you saw it. The video was done by the Wall Street Journal. (They’ve done a few nice ones lately) It’s a quick look at corn-fed and grass-fed beef. 

  I think it’s got some valuable information but wonder about some things that are stated. For example, both the grass farmer and the feed lot owner mention how little profit they are getting per animal. There are so many variables to profit margin that I still believe we can try and keep our overhead low and make a profit with grass fed beef but I can understand that with 7 or 8 dollar corn it’s pretty hard to make a profit on commodity beef. 

   Any thoughts? Do you care what you eat, eats? Does any of this surprise you?