Over the Memorial Day weekend I had the opportunity to travel to Hobart, Oklahoma, and work with C.R. Freeman and Kirk Duff, the two men behind Premium Natural Beef. In coming posts I will talk more about PNB and their philosophies, but in the meantime I want to talk about grain, barley specifically, and how it goes from the field to your dinner plate.
And this is the quick and dirty of how it works.
This crop is called barley. Lots of it is grown in Canada. It is very similar nutritionally to corn.
This is a combine. It cuts the Barley.
This is the view from the cab of the combine. The grain is shaken loose from rest of the plant.
This is what Barley looks like.
The grain is stored in a compartment in the combine, and once it becomes full the grain is moved in a grain truck.
The grain truck then moves it into a truck that can haul it to an elevator or where ever the farmer will be storing it.
The rest of the plant is blown out the back of the combine.
Usually in rows like this, so the straw can be baled.
Here is the baler. It will go over the tops of those rows, pick up the straw and make these...
Big Square Bales. There are also little Square Bales and Round Bales.
That Barley and some of the straw is then fed to cattle.
Usually steers or heifers in a feedlot.
So we can produce these.
That Barley plant at the beginning turns into a nutritional product that you and your family can consume.
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