Our Michigan Family Farm
Pleasant View Beef is more than a family farm, it’s an agricultural calling.
Since 1941, the Lewis family has raised cattle.
After raising dairy cattle for many years, we now primarily focus on beef.
But our commitment to quality products from our family to your family remains unchanged.
You can be confident that our products are PREMIUM, FLAVORFUL and most importantly...SAFE!!
Our Beef
Our cattle are cared for by our herdsman and his team. They are checked on in the morning, afternoon and evening.
They are free to roam around with access to barns where they have fresh feed and water 24 hours a day. Barns are naturally ventilated and cooled with fans in the summer for increased cattle comfort.
We work with a nutritionist and veterinarian who helps us to manage the cattle to ensure maximum health and nutrition. We raise cattle with no antibiotics or added hormones.
Our beef speaks for itself - naturally raised, dry-aged, exceptional quality that we consume as well as our customers.
Have it shipped to your door or visit our on-farm store in Jonesville, Michigan.
FAQs
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Our cattle are raised humanely and fed a carefully crafted diet informed by nutritionists and monitored with care. Backed by over 80 years of agricultural experience, our beef tells a flavorful story. Our cattle have no hormones or antibiotics. They are grass and grain fed!
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Our ground beef is 100% pure ground round. Nothing is added, nothing is taken away.
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No. We grow almost all of our own feed, and employ a cattle nutritionist. We don’t use antibiotics and due to careful nutrition maintenance and care our cattle rarely if ever get sick. If one of our animals becomes ill and requires antibiotics, they are pulled aside for a set amount of time regulated by the federal government to ensure that your meat is antibiotic-free and ready to eat.
Bruce and Jennifer
Bruce is the 3rd generation at Pleasant View Beef. He & his wife Jennifer married in 1988 and have lived on the farm since.
In 1995, they took over management of the farm, since then have grown the operation to its current status. They had three children, Adam, Brittany, and Conner, who were all raised here on the farm. Bruce's hard-working attributes quickly grew the farm to create more opportunities for his children to work full time on the farm if they wished.
Bruce strived to give his children the same childhood that he had; he remembers working with his father, Roger, on the farm at the young age of five years old.
Bruce is now a board member of Greenstone Farm Credit and Michigan Milk Producers Association, as well as working full-time on the farm.
Jennifer, who has been involved in the office operations on the farm since the early 90s; she is also a Board of Director on Michigan Farm Bureau and a member on the Michigan Beef Commission.
Bruce and Jennifer have worked diligently over the years to create Pleasant View Beef into what it is today.
Adam, Kayla & Family
Adam is the eldest of Bruce and Jennifer’s children. He and his brother, Conner, are the 4th generation at Pleasant View Beef.
Born and raised on the farm; Adam started working at a young age. He is a 2007 graduate from Jonesville High School. He further pursued his education at Michigan State University where he met his wife Kayla. They both studied Dairy Management and got married in 2012.
Both Adam and Kayla are employed full-time on the farm. Adam maintains equipment, handles the planting and harvesting of crops, as well as caring for the animals.
Kayla manages payroll and handles Human Resources at Pleasant View Dairy, while serving as the President of Hillsdale County Farm Bureau and serving as a board member on the Jonesville School Board.
Kayla grew up on a beef and cash crop farm in Ionia.
Accompanying them are their two children, Aubree and Jace, who actively enjoy living on the farm.
Brittany, Brad, & Mackenzie
Brittany (Bruce and Jennifer's second child) is a graduate of Jonesville High School in 2009.
Brittany helps on the farm and in the store and manages her small farm located near Pleasant View Beef. She and her husband Brad married in 2017.
Brad is the owner of Morse Construction and has helped with numerous expansion projects around our farm.
Their daughter, Mackenzie, will graduate in the near future from Grand Valley State University with a degree in Nursing.
Conner
Conner, also 4th generation at Pleasant View Beef, is the youngest of Bruce and Jennifer's three children.
Conner graduated from Jonesville High School in 2012 and went on to Michigan State University to obtain a degree in Dairy Management.
Conner's full-time position at the farm consists of managing and caring for our herd of animals, as well as assisting with planting and harvesting of our crops.
“I feel good about buying from a farming family that knows how to raise my meats and I'm not playing guessing games in the grocery store!”
- John, Pleasant View Customer