In This Issue:

• Producer Profile: Christina Traeger
• October Member Specials

Producer Profile: Christina Traeger

This is fourth in a series of profiles on our participating producers, artists and volunteers.
By Peter Losacano

Almost as knowledgeable about her cattle as her daughters, Christina Traeger knows each calf’s birthday and personality as well as the calf’s mother's and father’s temperament and history. Christina even gets DNA reports on each head to understand the genetic markers for tenderness and fat content.  In fact, Christina cares for the cattle like she does her children and raises the cattle humanely and respectfully.

So, if you are driving just west of St. Anna down a dirt road, and you spot on a hillside a herd of grazing white cattle with some black markings, you have reached Christina Traeger’s Rolling Hill Ranch. The cattle are British Whites, which until the 1960s were exclusively raised by English royalty. The breed has a Viking past; historians believe the breed has its roots in the eighth or ninth century in Scandinavia. The Vikings probably brought them to the English Isles through trading. British Whites first appear in historical records in England in the seventeenth century. Now with ten herds of over fifty cattle, the United States, from a global perspective, has the most herds.

Ranching at her uncle’s farm site less than a mile from where she was raised, Christina started her herd of British Whites in 1997 with nine head. Through hard work and her passion for these animals, she has grown the herd’s size to approximately three hundred. The British Whites are renowned for their docile and peaceful nature and intelligence. Christina says that the herd establishes its own social order and is self managing. Her British Whites are exclusively grass fed. Their meat is high quality: known for its tenderness and low fat.

Plan on checking the Minnesota Street Market for beef from Christina’s Rolling Hills Traeger Ranch. You will be pleased with the difference of this exclusive offering.

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