About Demo Farm
a family run and family owned farm in Upstate New York
Demo Farm Meats is located 10 miles east of Albany, in Rensselaer County.
Our family first moved to this farm in 1919. Through the years, we have been potato farmers, bean farmers, dairy farmers, and beef farmers. The farm is made up of 87 acres - 65 acres are tillable and the rest is wooded.
We offer healthy, wholesome products, from animals raised without hormones and antibiotics. We use proven approaches to agriculture in a sustainable model that benefits both the land and the caretakers of the land. We are pleased to share our products with you!
Our steers are born right here on our farm.
Every animal is pastured and fed high quality forages throughout their lives.
Most are finished with a combination of our own farm grown barley and high quality grass.
Feeding grain allows us to harvest animals throughout the year and results in well marbled, tender, tasty meat that melts in your mouth.
With the limited amount of grain and free access to high quality grass and forage that our beef are finished on, we are able to maintain above average amounts of Omega 3 fatty acids in the meat.
Our grass-fed pasture system is ideal for the animals and the environment.
Our animals live naturally on our pastures, grazing the forages growing in our fields. In the summer, we harvest the excess growth and feed it as hay in the winter. The animal wastes return to the land and become nutrients for the next grass cycle.
Below, Joel Satatin of Polyface Farms explains how the rotational grazing system he (and we) uses provides the grazing animals with a salad bar of nutrition while also enriching the pasture with manure and urine.
Our animals and our pastures are partners.
By restricting them to one paddock each day, rather than letting them roam, our animals more thoroughly eat and trample down the grass in the area, while adding their wastes. That process of mowing, trampling and fertilizing is very beneficial to the pasture and the soil that supports it. Healthy soil and lush pastures create an environment for nutritionally dense foods.