| Proffitt Family Farms Mission Our mission is to produce high quality beef grown in a natural way. To provide our animals with an environment that lets them live their entire lives as nature intended, by allowing them to forage exclusively on pasture. On our farm we let the cows and pasture land sustain each other with only rain and sunshine. Our animals are never given hormones or antibiotics. |
| Proffitt Family Farms Grass Fed Beef Your ranch direct source for pasture finished, dry-aged, 100% grass fed beef. USDA processed, 100% grass finished, no hormones, no antibiotics. Beef From Kings Mountain, North Carolina. 704-751-6455 |

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| In September 2009 the USDA certified two of our pastures (260 acres) organic and one pasture (200 acres) transitional (to be certified organic in September 2010). In about 2 years we will be able to provide you with USDA certified organic, 100% grass fed beef. At this time we are offering 100% grass fed, no hormones, no antibiotics, never penned, beef that spent their complete lifetime grazing on local pastures. |

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Balloons in the pasture, duck eating hawks, what will be next? Hot air balloons traditionally float very early in the morning because the wind is minimal and they can use their tanks of propane to float, if the wind is as they predict, to be carried to a planned location. It's an inexact science. They can't really steer, they just float and have to know the wind patterns of their area. This desired location was not one of our pastures here in Kings Mountain. Early Monday morning the cows were gathered, staring upward, and visibly nervous, as they were gazing in the direction of where we have a known coyote den. We thought they had seen one of these predators who commonly hunt in the early mornings. Following their stare lead to the real distraction, a hot air balloon was bouncing across the east pasture. Mom jumped onto the 4-wheeler to inspect the situation. We found a local balloonist flustered, although not at all apologetic, about his unplanned landing in our pasture! Thankfully, the cows were not grazing in that same field or it would have sent them running, possibly through the meager step in posts that we use to keep them on a certain swath of grass! Brian and I loaded the kids into the farm truck to help with the lifting of the balloon into their chase vehicle. By this time, it was parked nearby on our organic pasture, which we do not commonly drive trucks through. I got a few pics of the kids and we guided him out so they would not drive over our irrigation heads in the pasture. That was Monday in a nutshell! Today we had a predator visit and graze upon our pet ducks! We have a Great Pyrenees dog that has clearly spent too much time indoors escaping the heat of summer. The large hawk, who is a familiar face around our farm, had just ripped the head off of one of our 7 ducks when Brian caught him while he was outside playing frisbee with Zoe, our daughter. This was a large duck, not one of those small female mallards! He was happily gorging himself while the other, ever so intelligent ducks, stood nearby. Doubtless, they were wondering who this new member of the flock was eating one of their recent friends! For the love of God fly away! Save yourselves! Brian alerted the household and Granny, Mom, grabbed the nearest weapon. This was one of Dewi's precious sticks. She tried to beat the hawk off the duck but he stood his ground and splayed his feathers daring her to come closer. He would not leave his meal. Our ducks are literally ' sitting ducks'. They are free range and hide up under many trees to escape the heat but there is no real way to allow them this freedom and protect them from the predators from above. There are rats and rabbits a plenty this year, but the hawk has crossed the line now! Angel, the livestock guardian angel, has offcially clocked in! Bring it Hawk! Angel will be ready... |
| "ATTACKS FROM ABOVE" |
| Raising The Steaks Check out this months Charlotte Magazine. They profile our farm and all the benefits of GRASS FED BEEF CLICK HERE |


| FRESH GROUND BEEF CHUCK Joe, the meat man at Healthy Home Market on South Blvd, is grinding our grass fed chuck fresh every day in the fresh meat counter! Ask for it by name, Proffitt Family Farms grass fed beef. |


