Real Farm Foods are produced by real farms. At the Rockin H Ranch, we produce Real Farm Beef, Pork, Chicken, Lamb, Goat, Bison, Turkey, Milk, Eggs and seasonal Produce. Our ranch operates with a commitment to all natural and Holistic Systems of Management practices to keep quality soils high in nutrition, which produce highly nutritious forages that feed our animals a diet high in nutrients, thereby indulging ourselves and our customers with premium foods of the highest nutritional quality.
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About Us
In 1975, Cody left home at age 17 with his high-school 4-H project of seven cows. That project grew into what the Rockin H Ranch, a diversified ranch, on-farm market, and agri-tourism business. The ranch has supported as many as 900 cow/calf pairs on 3,400 acres.
Cody and Dawnnell met and in 2000 the base business of the already established cow-calf operation began to change shape. The ranch is host to several annual events that invite the general public out during different seasons of the year. Along with these events, we offer our Real Farm Foods Farm Market, an on-farm store offering retail sales of our premium beef, pork, lamb, goat, chicken, turkey, bison, eggs, and milk. Join our Get Real e-Newsletter to keep updated!
Our daughter, Taylor, is 15 and a major part of
our everyday operations. Taylor raises our Pastured Pork and oversees
care of our Pastured Fryers and Turkeys. She also helps with our Free
Ranging Laying Hen operation, collecting eggs and making sure they are
moved
to fresh pastures. She assists with our Grass-Finished Sheep and taking
care of our Great Pyrenees guard dogs. Along with her schooling, Taylor
plays mandolin and fiddle. She has been the artist for the pictures on
our annual Cowboy Gathering t-shirts and helps her mom with painting signs
located throughout the ranch. Taylor's favorite animals are her barn
cats and she loves to read.
Cody grew up on a small dairy farm in south central Missouri, not far from where we are today. He bought his first seven dairy heifers at age 14. By the time he was 17, he traded those dairy heifers for beef heifers, bought a farm and never looked back. He has a business degree in accounting from Missouri State University and uses that background to help ensure the financial success of the ranch. Cody is an acclaimed horse trainer and has traveled the central states displaying his horsemanship methods through round pen clinics and demonstrations. Cody's part of our family band is playing acoustic guitar and singing. Cody's passions are his cattle and soil fertility. In fact, Dawnnell has to get away from the ranch from time to time to have a conversation that does not revolve around cattle, soil or dung beetles. Cody is a proficient author of many articles published by magazines like Acres, USA and Equestrian Central, shares his thoughts through his www.holisticsystemsforstockmen.net blog and has completed his much anticipated book, Ranching Full-Time on Three Hours a Day.
Dawnnell hails from a small town in
southwestern Missouri. She grew up with a love of music and animals,
although cows were a whole new matter to her when she met Cody. She
sometimes combines her love of music and animals by singing to her milk cows
in the mornings. She attended Ozark Christian College pursuing a degree
in Biblical Literature. Her work background is in the title insurance
and mortgage industries. Dawnnell sings and plays acoustic bass in the
family band. She enjoys the daily chores mingling with the animals in
God's creation much more than she enjoys housework. Along with taking
care of the majority of the marketing of the ranch events, Farm Market and website, Dawnnell also schools Taylor at home full time. She has created
a line of apparel for their Real Farm Foods which are available in their Farm
Market and has authored articles published by Acres USA and on her
blog, www.mscowboy.net. Dawnnell also loves to read and hopes to one day find time to
organize the family photo album.
We have a philosophy of "work with what you've got". And "what we've got" is found in God's beautiful nature. We have a desire and an obligation to do things naturally. That means we use no chemical fertilizers, no dangerous pesticides, no unnatural growth hormones in our animals, no harmful antibiotics, no genetically modified feeds. We like to use the term "Farmeceutical", indicating a lesser dependence or elimination of pharmaceuticals for a healthy lifestyle. We believe God gave animals legs for a reason. To walk around as they choose. Our animals are never placed in confinements or small cages. We raise our animals in sync with nature, ecologically and sustainably. We have a God-given responsibility to ourselves and others to raise premium foods top in quality and taste, naturally. The cycle never ends.