ABOUT NERLAND BEEF
Our mission is to raise healthy beef and offer quality customer service.
After experiencing city life at the University of Washington, Syd and Elaine Nerland settled in the Stilly Valley in 1980. They began raising beef on their 130-acre farm in 2004, gradually expanding their pastures, equipment, and even building a WSDA custom processing facility.​​
Over the years, they have refined their beef-raising practices, improving pastures to produce protein-rich hay. Their Black Angus herd winters in an onsite hoop barn, ensuring warmth and cleanliness. Their regenerative farming methods include spreading manure on fields, environmental practices such as this earned them the Snohomish County Conservation District Leadership Award.
Their WSDA-licensed processing facility allows complete control over production, ensuring a high-quality, consistent product.
As Washington loses farmland to urban development, the Nerlands remain committed to preserving rural land for future generations.
Nerland Beef is a family operation. Syd and Elaine manage the farm, their daughter Laurabeth and SIL Joshua manage the processing business, and son Derek oversees accounting. Their grandsons Mason, Bennett, and Oliver are growing up to hopefully be the next Future Farmers of America.
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100% NATURAL, GRASS-FED & HORMONE-FREE
Grass-fed beef offers benefits such as higher omega-3s, more antioxidants, lower unhealthy fats, and increased CLA, which boosts metabolism and reduces inflammation. The cattle are raised on a natural diet in better living conditions. Grass-fed beef is also leaner and more flavorful than other options.
Oliver on the winter manure pile, which will be spread on the fields for fertilizer after the first hay cutting, a regenerate farming practice.