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- The American Bison population, being only 375,000, doesn’t meet the supply and demand for meat sales and breeding stock.
- Bison products such as head mounts, skulls, hides and bones are marketable items.
- Bison meat is lower in calories, fat and cholesterol than beef, turkey or chicken.
- Bison market potential is high with little to no export compared to chicken or pork.
- Bison are self sufficient, not needing to be milked or grained, with little or no veterinarian care, handling or calving problems.
- Bison being raised on 1.5 acres per head are well fed, happy bison and therefore won’t stress the fences like other bovine animals.
- Bison never overgraze, eating 1/3 less food compared to other bovine animals.
- Bison don’t require high quality forage compared to other bovine animals.
- Bison can survive wind chills of minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit without shelter or near constant feeding that cattle require.
- Bison are majestic, intelligent, challenging and curious.
- Bison are North America’s oldest and largest living land animal.
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