05/24/2026
When we started farming over ten years ago, we knew we wanted to raise differently than the more commercial minded operations around us. 🚜
So we found a NonGMO feed mill in north Alabama that was also corn and soy free.
Different versions of that NonGMO feed fed our animals for many years before finding a mill that would work with us on feed ingredients, allowing us to transition to full organic in 2024.
But once we also cut out wheat from our animals diet, and got into dairy cows, we had to make some decisions about what the cows were fed.
We could either continue to omit corn at the risk of the cows health, or bring corn back into their feed ration for healthier girls that maintained better weight.
That was an easy choice for us. Healthy cows produce healthy milk after all.
But we recently worked with a new cow nutrition advisor who looked at what we were feeding our girls and compared it to our new hay tests.
and her husband Ben were more thorough than anyone we've ever talked to with an animal nutrition degree. 🫣
Ben was pleased with the hay and made a new feed formula to better keep fat on our girls all year long.
And guess what it's missing?
Corn. 🌽
Without even asking, Ben made a ration that will meet our girls needs without feeding some of the grains we wanted to avoid.
So now after two years of feeding corn to our girls, we can transition back to being a completely corn free farm again. 😍
We've unintentionally become the allergen friendly farm. 😆 Since we don't feed soy, wheat, nuts, flax, or canola either.
Allergen-friendly milk, starting in June 2026. 🤣🤭✌️
