​Groff's Content cares about our farming practices and strives to provide customers with products they can feel good about.  We believe in allowing animals the freedom to spend their lives doing the things that make them what they are. Chickens are allowed to scratch and forage, cattle and sheep to graze and pigs to root. We believe that animal health starts from the soil up and use a variety of management techniques to maintain the health of our pastures.

​The cornerstone of our feeding program is our fodder system.  The reason we started with fodder was to reduce the amount of feed purchased off the farm. Any time we can feed fodder instead of grain that is what we do. Our system is a flood and drain hydroponic system that sprouts barley for about 6 days and then we feed the whole plant to the animals. Every animal on our farm gets fodder, we feed over a ton per day.  We have been doing this for about 5 years now and really love it. The health difference in the animals is remarkable as well as the reduction in our dependence on purchased hay for ruminants and grain for pork and poultry.  We always felt that our feeding program was not where we wanted it and even now we know we have room to grow, but we are way up the scale from where we started.  Our products have always been sought out because they taste great but we feel like the fodder adds many nutritional benefits not only for the animals but in the quality of the food they become.

​Our feed comes from Ernst Grain and Livestock. They produce a non GMO feed that tests clean of any chemicals including glyphosate. Corn and soybean fields are cover cropped with a small grain in the fall and sprayed with glyphosate to kill the cover in the spring before they are planted and they are not sprayed with glyphosate again. Small grains, like wheat and barley, are planted in the fall and are not sprayed with glyphosate at any time. Other chemicals may be used sparingly on an as needed basis and that will differ from year to year. All the grains used in feed are encased by the plant so no chemical actually comes in direct contact with the final product which is eaten by poultry and livestock. www.ernstgrainandlivestock.com

As always, we intend to be transparent. If you are concerned about something specific that we have not mentioned in this description of our farm, please ask. Sometimes we are unaware of something we should be including in our description to help people in making their food choice decisions. We welcome the opportunity to have visitors on the farm to share the things we are doing with our customers and friends.

Processing:  All animals are transported and processed in a USDA facility. 

​Here are links to the main places we take our animals.
www.stoneypointfarmmarket.com
https://www.facebook.com/rettlandfarm/
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