Regenerative Ranching

Why Regenerative ranching

Regenerative ranches follow the world’s top sustainability expert: Nature

Turns out, you don’t need synthetic pesticides, feedlots, and growth hormones when you ranch how nature
intended. At regenerative ranches, cattle eat real grass, producing healthier manure that enriches the soil.
Well-grazed grass roots grow deeper, sequestering carbon and preventing erosion. Wholesome feed
sprouts, nourishing cattle, and the upward spiral just keeps cycling—exactly as nature intended.

SUpErChArGeS nuTrItIoN

with up to 85% higher nutrient density than industrial beef.

Enriches soil health

Reduces pesticides by
improving soil health with
thoughtful grazing.

Sequesters carbon

healthy ranchland
sequesters up to 10 tons
of carbon per acre.

Reduces chemicals

prioritizing natural
techniques that are lighter
on the environment.

Supports local economies

by offering a fair,
sustainable livelihood to
local ranchers.

Wide open rangeland: so much more than just a pretty place.

Healthy pastures are where wildlife live and
traverse—ranches help connect ecosystems,
keeping them intact and stronger. In our era of
higher forest fire risk, grasslands offer a “carbon
sink” we can count on, protecting us from global
warming. By proving profitable, regenerative
ranches hold their ground (literally!), resisting
development and industrialization while giving
back big nutrition and even bigger benefits.

Good for the Planet. Even better for your dog

If you are what you eat, then start with what grass eats: dirt. At a regenerative ranch, we’re talking really,
really good dirt—the kind that passes vitamins, nutrients, and trace elements into grass stalks. This
highly-nutritious grass is gobbled up by cattle, who then send all the bonus iron, b12, vitamin A, and
omega fatty acids straight onto your pup—without any of the usual chemicals of industrial ranching.

Grass Fed, Regenerative

Goodness

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Regenerative farming isn't easy

Rewarding things rarely are. (Unless you’re a dog, in which case, you’re cute, have a treat!) Regenerative
ranching isn’t an exacting set of rules. Instead, it’s working with both land and livestock attentively,
adapting nature-led practices as you go to improve sustainability and ranch health over time.

+ Fewer chemicals, smarter grazing: Regenerative ranching drastically reduces synthetic pesticides
by improving soil health resiliency with thoughtful grazing.
+ Minimal antibiotics and medicines: Industrial agriculture loads up cows with antibiotics and
growth hormones. At regenerative ranches, cattle are only treated as needed—rarely, since free range
grazing keeps their health strong.
+ Hooves, not plows: Tilling land is a time-honored European tradition…that’s terrible for Western
topsoil. At regenerative ranches, cattle work nutrients into the ground naturally and beneficially just by
doing cow things on it.
+ Mooove the cows frequently: Grazing cattle and growing grass have to balance one other to be
healthy—so regenerative ranchers intensely watch their pastures and herd cattle responsively.
+ It’s a group project: Regenerative ranchers thrive when they work with local food systems, joining
food co-ops and farmer’s markets, partnering with high-quality food processors, and creating local jobs.
+ Extra credit: Many regenerative ranches earn carbon credits—payback for their hard work getting
carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil (where it’s actually beneficial!)
+ Always learning: This way of ranching is a dance of details, and the changes take time.
Regenerative ranchers constantly seek education on natural techniques for managing irrigation, calving,
working with wildlife, and more

We third-party validate our ranch partners to guarantee the Montana goodness.
Nobody knows regenerative ranching like the Western Sustainability Exchange. This
nonprofit has educated, connected, and supported Western ranches in adopting the
healthiest practices possible since 1994.

Check out our ranch partners

Nothing is going to waste

Montana Beef Sticks don’t just support our
regenerative ranch partners in all their stewardship of
the land – they also reclaim highly nutritious organ
meats.

While there’s a growing market for organ meats, most
consumers choose steaks and burgers. This leaves
ranchers paying to discard liver, lung, kidney, spleen,
and heart…their most nutrient-dense offerings.

With Beef Sticks, we pass human-grade,
high-protein culinary delight right onto your
dog—who will be all too happy to take a bite out of
climate change.