Jerry and I try to operate our ranch by the values that we live our lives. We live by honesty, integrity and with God’s hand in everything that we do. Our ranch is family owned and operated, that means that in working the ranch we are also instilling in our children the foundations of character and integrity that we want them to pass on to future generations.
It is our goal as parents, and also as producers to (hopefully) learn as much as we can so that we can teach how to pass on the moral obligation of producing the highest quality of animal correctly, as our fathers - fathers did before us, without shooting it full of hormones. We are one of the few farms that do not allow hormonal supplements or other unnatural growth techniques. We naturally breed, and grow everything raised here. Here at Detour Ranch we pride ourselves on our naturally grown and pasture fed live stock.
In starting late in the game it has allowed us to learn off of so many others trial and error. While we do believe that learning comes from trial and error, and wisdom comes from experience, we also believe in trying to learn from others mistakes so that hopefully we don’t make the same ones. So many times today, it’s always about the bottom dollar, how much profit, instead of about the learning curve or the wisdom gained by trying to do it right.
We do not believe in medicating unnecessarily, but yes, if an animal gets sick or injured we will take every step needed to care for that animal. We do not sell our culls to our customers; they usually go to the sale lots. We do not believe in being dishonest just to get to the top, and we treat our customers the way that we want to be treated.
Research is a large part of the time spent here on Detour Ranch, research into old or new ways to raise animals the natural and healthy way, or new practices on how to do so effectively. Instead of merely raising them for the profit margin, or the sale lot, instead, we raise our animals as we would for OUR TABLE. In turn that means that we won’t sell it to you for your table or for you to use, if we would not use it. When you purchase an animal from Detour Ranch, we believe in raising the highest quality possible.
Basically to sum it all up, we try to live in a manner that is pleasing to God, and we try to live every day in a way that we don’t have to feel guilty about anything.
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