'It's a true need': Local farm and counties collaborate on Boone slaughter facility – The Appalachian
For over 150 years, five generations of the Shipley family have raised cattle on the clover-rich, rolling pastures of Vilas, North Carolina. Their cattle matures without steroids, hormones or feedlots, eating only from the surrounding grassy hills. “No shortcuts. We keep the cattle on the pasture and let them do the work,” said Gray Shipley,...
Source: theappalachianonline.com