Achieving Real Results.

Colorado Allied Beef has teamed up with professors at Colorado State University to create a scientifically-backed credit system that actually helps America’s wildlife and ecosystems.

Our credit system awards points to ranchers based on a menu of ecologically sound management techniques.

How Do Ranchers Earn Credits?

Our system is better than other labeling techniques because there are no firm barriers to entry. Our menu approach allows ranchers to choose techniques best suited to their operation and easily scale their stewardship activities throughout the years.

  • Healthy Rangeland

    Local flora is healthy and flourishing. Native species dominate vegetation composition and the range is not overgrazed.

  • Prescribed Fire

    Prescribed, controlled fires can create tremendous benefits on the landscape and return land to historic species compositions.

  • Wildlife Friendly Fencing

    Installing fence in such a manner that wildlife can easily traverse over or under barbed wire.

  • Grazing Management Plan

    Implementing a solid grazing plan can help maintain or improve healthy rangelands.

  • Pollinator Friendly

    There are plenty of flowers and other flora for pollinators to flourish. Threatened species like milkweed are present.

  • Predator Deterrents

    Bears, lions, wolves, and/or coyotes are present on or near the ranch and ranch has implemented a system of non-lethal deterrents to discourage depredation of livestock.

  • Etc.

    Ranchers can improve their operations in a multitude of ways - as our menu grows we will continue to update these credit earning activities.

Credit System

 

If you’ve ever seen the box “check here to receive renewable energy” on your utility bill, you will be familiar with Colorado Allied Beef’s concept. Much like on your utility bill, where you can opt in for renewable energy, we are enabling consumers to opt in for conservation-oriented beef.

Essentially it works like this - Our ranchers implement a suite of good land stewardship practices from our scientifically-backed menu of options. When they sell their cattle, they earn the market rate per pound of live cow (as they would normally). Usually this is where a rancher’s livestock income would end, however, our ranchers are good land stewards deserving of additional compensation. Allied Beef meticulously records our ranchers’ live weight cattle sales. We then sell the equivalent amount of beef via our grocery partners to folks like you who want to support nature positive beef. Our beef’s relatively low premium is passed straight back to ranchers, enabling consumers to vote with their dollars for ecologically sound agriculture.

The beef sold through our system may not actually come from our ranches, rather, it is representative of the beef that does come from our ranches by weight. Importantly, credit revenues go back into the hands of our ranchers practicing sound ecological work on the ground.