{"id":60423,"date":"2018-09-11T21:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T03:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/stubborn-farm-burk-beef-endures-drought\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T03:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T03:22:27","slug":"stubborn-farm-burk-beef-endures-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/stubborn-farm-burk-beef-endures-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Stubborn Farm &amp; Burk Beef endures drought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=64680e5c-2197-4afe-8b7c-244d07a5b5d0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Dustin Stein, ranch manager of Stubborn Farm &amp; Burk Beef, has been taking the ranch\u2019s grass-fed beef to the Durango Farmers Market for six years.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dustin Stein, ranch manager of Stubborn Farm &amp; Burk Beef, has been taking the ranch\u2019s grass-fed beef to the Durango Farmers Market for six years.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Nick Gonzales\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Stubborn Farm &amp; Burk Beef, located west of Mancos, has a straightforward mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll we do is raise grass-fed beef. Pretty simple,\u201d said ranch manager Dustin Stein.<\/p>\n<p>The ranch has had a stand at Durango Farmers Market for six years, the same length of time Stein has been involved with the ranch, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJack and Patricia Burk were raising grass-fed beef for about 10 years prior to that, but they weren\u2019t marketing at the farmers market here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ranch\u2019s relative simplicity, it has not been immune to this year\u2019s drought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to choose whether we should sell off a bunch of animals, or buy hay, or lease some more pasture, or what,\u201d Stein said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I sent all my cow\/calf pairs up to Gunnison for the summer, which probably cost me about 10 grand that I wouldn\u2019t have otherwise spent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was kind of a choice to keep our cows and spend a little bit more money just to maintain the herd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a challenging year,\u201d Stein said. \u201cBut we\u2019re still here.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ngonzales@durangoherald.com\">ngonzales@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>grass-fed beef to the market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1934,438],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-60423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmers-market","tag-food"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60423"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=60423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}