In this Jan. 7, 2020, photo, Thousand Hills owner Matt Maier watches as cows eat hay at his farm near Clearwater, Minn. Maier raises grass-fed beef, and in the Central Minnesota winter he lays out ...

Maier raises 300 cattle in Clearwater. And he owns Thousand Hills, a Becker-based, grass-fed beef distributor and marketer that requires its farmers to use regenerative practices that benefit the ...

Founded in 2003, Thousand Hills works with 50 family farms across the U.S. to raise Lifetime Grazed Grass Fed Beef with regenerative agriculture practices.