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Organic Beef from a traditional native breed (the
Beef Shorthorn) fattened on grass and available
direct from the farm.
 Field Farm, Wymeswold is the home
of Fergus and Joanna Shields who have created a
unique environment for the production of Organic
Beef. The farm is set in the heart of rural England
in an area known historically as the Midland Grazing
Region. This unique area around the South
Nottinghamshire / North Leicestershire Wolds
villages was formed over time by glaciers around
130,000 years ago. This beautiful countryside is
renowned for the excellence of its permanent
pastures where beast can be fattened by grass
without supplementary feeding. This rich pasture
produces some of the finest food products on offer
in the world today for example Stilton cheese. To
this long and proud heritage we are pleased to offer
our finest beef from our home bred Pedigree Organic Beef
Shorthorns a British native breed. This organic beef
satisfies the palate in terms of quality and taste
and also provides the discerning UK consumer the
reassurance of a product produced by ethical farming
methods and healthy living.
Our Beef Shorthorns are bred on the farm naturally,
graze freely on the organic pasture and in winter
when the grazing is limited are fed in the fields on
our own organic silage, harvested from summers
abundance. Our cattle live a natural life outdoors.
This combination of natural organic grass and silage
plus free range living is for us an ethical way of
producing meat and results in organic beef of superior taste
and quality.
Our meat is available only direct from the farm at
wholesale prices.
Quality
 Quality
organic beef can in our view only be created slowly,
carefully, with dedication to the finest feed,
welfare standards and respect for the environment.
Field Farm is an accredited Soil Association Organic
Farm (AB18328). Our fields provide ample grazing for
our livestock and they are free to move about
naturally within their environment. We produce our
own organic silage for winter feeding and this is
delivered direct to the fields by tractor and the
cattle are free to eat what they need.
Our land was created slowly by glaciers hundreds of
thousands of years ago. We work in partnership with
this unique rich environment to slowly mature the
finest Pedigree Beef Shorthorns, a traditional,
native breed and the oldest recorded breed in
England. These handsome cattle are natural grazers
and produce fine marbled organic beef when fed on natural
grass and forage. What could be more natural? The
cattle move about freely and are fit and healthy as
a result of this natural exercise.
Beef Shorthorns are a rare breed nowadays and for a
good reason; they mature slowly and therefore do not
fit with intensive farming methods. At Field Farm
time is less important to us than achieving our
objective of superb taste.
 Taste
The new generation of meat eaters is more aware of
what makes great meat than ever before. They know
that intensive farming methods, the selling of young
bull beef without maturing it on the bone and an
inappropriate demand for lean, bright red cuts of
meat has had a detrimental effect on its taste. This
is in no small way due to the impact of TV
programmes from people who have a love for creating
great food. People like Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall,
Marco Pierre White, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey
have changed forever the way food is appreciated in
the UK.
Field Farm is dedicated to providing tasty, organic beef. To
do this we invest in our stock by providing the best
feed, environment and welfare. Calves are sired
naturally.
The animals enjoy a life as nature intended and the
result is great meat. But that is only the beginning
of the story. To get tasty beef maturation is
required and our cattle are slaughtered after the
age of 28 months compared to 18 months for more
intensive methods. But that is only the beginning of
the story after slaughter the carcasses are hung
and monitored in a cool temperature controlled
environment for 3 to 4 weeks of dry aging. This
improves flavour and tenderness at a cost to us of a
loss in weight. That is a price we are prepared to
pay to get the result a well marbled organic beef with
generous amounts of fat. It is a different product
to supermarket beef and our customers consistently
remark that the eating quality is superb. On cooking
the marbling melts and bastes the meat resulting in
tender beef with a divine taste. After roasting, a
wonderful dripping remains in the pan not water
testimony to the superiority of dry aging.
 Health
There is a great concern about
fat in our diets and our meat is marbled and has a
layer of fat. This gives it its unique flavour and
we believe it is a healthy product too. The issue of
fat is not an easy one to understand.
There is a lot of research now that grass fed meat
is healthier for us it is higher in omega-3s and
contains more "good" fats but no man made
trans-fatty acids. Grass fed organic beef is also a rich
natural source of CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid)
which is now sold as a health supplement.
We believe our grass fed Beef Shorthorns produce
meat that is healthy for one simple reason our
livestock live the life that nature intended. Our
cattle are not fed high growth feeds, hormones nor
are they restricted in terms of exercise. A healthy
lifestyle for our livestock we believe results in a
healthy product.
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