04/28/2026
Welcome to Rafter TC Pasture Protein.
I am passionate about the health of family, farm, and community!
Every decision I make is working to prioritize: soil health, ecosystem balance, nutrient density, customer relationship, and local community.
Soil is the foundation of a healthy ecosystem. When plants and animals are grown in a healthy ecosystem, they can be healthy. When people are connected to a healthy ecosystem, and eat food from it, they have the potential to be healthy.
Put simply: Healthy soil = Healthy people
But, we have a problem...
Today, industrial agriculture does not care about soil. It cares about making a profit in the cutthroat commodity markets. Most producers are not focused on soil health. They are focused on making a profit and paying bills. Very often, producers are trapped in the big ag system with two options:
1 Stay in buisness by following the system and abusing the soil...
Or
2 Treat the soil well, and go broke sticking to your convictions.
Notice that, if a farmer chooses option 2, soon he will not be a farmer. This idea might sound silly, but I personally know several farmers that want to change, but literally feel that they have no power to do so. Like many city people, many farmers want environmental health, but feel stuck in a system of bo***ge.
For healthy agriculture to prosper, the most important thing is for each farm to be profitable. Otherwise, it is not sustainable economically.
So, there needs to be a third option:
-Grow food in a healthy way, and stop competing with commodity markets, but sell directly to local people at a profitable price. Then, grow and inovate to be competitive.
This is what I am doing. It can feel slow, and small, but if we keep selling product directly at a profitable price, then we can build a community of liberty that has the potential to grow. The best part of option 3 is; I own my decisions. I don't have to answer to the bank, or the crop insurance agency about my production practices. I answer only to my customers, and have complete freedom, economically and legally to persue managing my soil in the healthiest way possible. Not all people are able to pay more for food today. That is ok. I hope to stay in buisness and be creative in solving those problems in the future with free market.
It is important to understand that truly healthy farming can not be compared to manufacturing. I will tell a story:
There once was a miner named Mack. He was managing an iron mine in the 1940s. The war hit, and the government started giving subsidies for bigger dump trucks. He bought one, increased iron production 5 times. The result was, after the war, several mountains were leveled, his workers were less jacked, and iron was 5 times cheaper in price, making cars and all industrial equipment much more affordable.
There was also a farmer named Fredrick in the 1940s. The war hit, and the government started giving subsidies for chemicall farming, and monoculture row crops to increase production efficiency. He bought a bigger tractor, plowed up a few pastures, and started growing corn, increasing his farm exports by 5 times. The result was, after the war, his soil was quickly eroding, all his produce contained some sort of antibiotics, his wife had cancer, his beef tallow was now white instead of yellow, his children hated the new horrid smell in the feilds, and calories of food were 5 times cheaper in price. Also, autism became a medical term.
My point is, a factory mindset is much more hurtful in agriculture that it is in many other industries. Both Mack and Fredrick created product 5 times cheaper in price, but for Fredric the COST of the change was far greater.
So, how do we fix our farms?
I think we can slowly fix this problem with relationship marketing, with producer selling directly to consumer. Unlike a commodity market, a direct relationship in a food transaction is powerful and produces:
-customer loyalty
-consumer education
-product quality
-quality lifestyle
All the qualities of a healthy sustainable community.
The USDA has proven to be a BAD manager of our food health. If you look at history, government systems never work. The Amarican dream is:
WE THE PEOPLE.
I beleive that over time, as a community, we can build a healthy food system that is built on prioritizing health over efficiency.
Now, efficiency in farming is not inherently bad. It is however very bad when ecosystem balance is neglected, or worse, completely forgotten to even be a thing. There are so many options to grow food in a healthy way, and there is so much room to innovate about how to create a farm ecosystem that is both HEALTHY AND EFFICIENT. I am so excited to spend my life innovating in ecosystem agriculture! I would love to meet you!
I have premium, clean, grass finished beef, and pastured eggs available now.
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