



https://www.nrdc.org/stories/5-tips-buying-better-beef
is a good article on the USDA terms


http://www.beefmagazine.com/pasture-range/grass-fed-growth-brings-challenges-opportunity-and-few-fringe-benefits

In 2015 over half of the beef that can be classified as Grass-fed went into these branded programs. So there is a growing perception in the wider buying market that grass-fed beef is a premium product and is desirable. With a growing personal income driving more consumer spending and a parallel growth in desire to eat foods that are less processed and inherently more healthy, grass-fed beef has enjoyed significant growth in the past five years.

(skills needed)
Since we are matching buyers and sellers, we do not need to hold animals or feed them, so we eliminate the need for land needed for feed and housing of animals before they are sold.

configuration
Using the selected software products in their native environments and understanding the limitations of our integration between software products. This person maintains sales, marketing, and customer relation sites, and social media

integration
Creating the environment that can deliver the desired functionality for the business model we are creating.


Direct marketing builds relationships with Buyers and Sellers to create the greatest value for both. Buyers understand more about the product they are buying, Sellers can have access to more buyers by sharing lists of all registered Auction Buyers which is greater than any of them could have on their own.
This system needs to interface to Auction, Shipping, Accounting and Packing orders. It may need to tie to an animal production management system as well.

Auction should create the cutting order for packer to get the greatest value from each animal.

Integrating the production of cattle, how they were fed, managed and cared for, time to market and weights and weights of beef grades against breed, even tracking how many calves come from a cow and the production of each calf as a total for the cow to determine which protocols give the best results for cow management.
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This also feeds into a forecasting system to determine when the best time will be to take animals to auction and get the best value.

Web based outreach and marketing using web and CMS automation. Education-based selling that educates and invites people to participate to gain benefits and advantages.