The Field Guideby Moss & Marrow
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Grass-fed beef rundvlees: available all year

meat · sources read 2026-10-11 · how we decide

Also called rund, runderen.

Grass-fed beef is available all year from Dutch producers. The best months are September, October, November. Grass-fed beef is sold all year.

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Grass-fed beef through the year

Beef is sold all year: farms slaughter an animal when it is ready, often a few times a year, and sell it as packages or shares. It still has a season of a kind. Cattle are on Dutch pasture from about April to October, so the animals finished on grass are slaughtered from late summer into autumn, and November was the traditional slaughter month, which is why its old Dutch name is slachtmaand.

How to choose grass-fed beef

Ask whether the animal was finished on grass or on grain, and when the next slaughter date is. Packages sell out.

Nutrients in grass-fed beef

Protein, haem iron, zinc, vitamin B12, selenium and creatine. Grass-finished beef has more omega-3 and beta-carotene in its fat than grain-finished, which is why the fat is yellower.

To get the most: Slow cuts with connective tissue (shin, cheek, oxtail) give collagen and glycine that steaks do not; stock from the bones gives more still. Rest meat after cooking; nothing nutritional is lost in resting.

On our nutrient density chart, a normal serving of beef steak (150 g) gives about three-quarters of a day's vitamin B12 and about three-quarters of a day's zinc, counting what your body absorbs. Its heme iron is absorbed in full.

Content per NEVO, the Dutch food composition database. This describes what the food contains, not what it does for you.

How to cook grass-fed beef

A mixed package means learning the slow cuts: braise shin and brisket, roast rib, grill the steaks. A chest freezer pays for itself.

Grass-fed beef, nose to tail

A mixed package is nose to tail by design: shin, cheek, oxtail and bones alongside the steaks. Ask for the fat to render into dripping.

Who sells grass-fed beef

119 producers in The Field Guide sell grass-fed beef, each checked against our inclusion criteria and listed by province.

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Utrecht 45

Gelderland 39

Noord-Holland 19

Zuid-Holland 15

Drenthe 1

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Dates read on 2026-10-11. If a window on this page is wrong, tell us with a source.

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