Ohe's Outpost offers great beef

Ohe’s Outpost offers great locally grown beef cuts and home baked goodness at the Fergus Falls Farmers Market.

Landon Ohe

It’s a fairly new direct marketing venture for the Ohe family of Erhard. They have always sold whole, halves and quarters of their locally raised beef mostly to family and friends, said Landon Ohe. But he wanted to expand the direct marketing efforts and joined the Fergus Falls Farmers Market last year as a foray to introduce their beef products to customers.

Landon sells ground beef and, when available, select meat cuts like steaks and roasts. He is looking for outlets for parts of the animal not commonly used. He considered customer’s requests and says a few weeks ago he was asked about tongue and liver.

The Ohe’s mom, Mary, makes baked goods for farmers market sales and Landon also sells canvas prints of pictures he’s taken on the family farm. The crisp scenes show life on the farm from grazing cattle to farm landscape scenes. Landon is a talented artist. His pictures capture the cattle and nature in its serenity.

One of Landon’s canvas prints featuring cattle in the pasture

The beef herd is a cross between Angus and Hereford with some Red Angus in the bloodline. His brother, Marshall, recently purchased some British White cattle which are also being added to the herd.

There are 50 to 60 cows in the herd. About two-thirds of the market animals are sold at the sales barn with another quarter to third sold direct to customers. Direct market sales have increased over the last few years, he said.

The beef is processed at the Perham Locker.

Landon’s pictures capture the personality and beauty of the cattle and nature.

Ohe’s Outpost is truly a family affair for the Ohe clan. Landon and his two siblings, Marshall and Allie, each live on their own farms that are just a few miles from one another. While some work off the farm, all, including their parents, Orland and Mary, help with whatever the farming needs might be for either cattle or crops.

Farming has been a way of life for the Ohes since the 1800s, Landon said. He and his siblings are the sixth generation to farm the land. Their focus now is on crops and beef, but he recalls his parent’s diversified operation of dairy, hogs and chickens.

Orland and Mary moved to another home and Marshall moved onto the home farmsite. He lives there with his wife, Mary and their daughter. His focus is on crops - corn, soybeans, wheat and alfalfa. They also planted 100 asparagus plants a few years ago and are now harvesting it, Landon said.

Allie and her husband, Lucas Berg, work off the farm and are parents to two girls. They also raise chickens, he said. The eggs are sold to local customers. They also raise Scottish Highland cattle.

Landon centers his work with the beef herd and marketing. He also works part time for a construction company.

It’s plain to see that Landon enjoys working with the cattle and marketing, but he wasn’t always sure he would farm. While he attended Pelican Rapids High School, he considered his options. He wanted a career in agriculture and was working at RDO equipment in Fergus Falls when he learned of a marketing and management program offered at Southeast Community College in Milford, Nebraska. It was one of two such programs in the country. Since his graduation from the course, the Nebraska college has halted the program.

After his graduation, Landon worked for RDO, a ranch in Wyoming and a Colorado ski resort.

“After all that, I decided to come home and farm,” he said.

Landon wants to expand and diversify the operation.

Landon’s canvas prints are available at the Fergus Falls Farmers Market

The Ohes are planting perennial pasture for the grazing cattle and plan to graze livestock on cover crops as well.

Their herd is rotationally grazed with cattle moved from one pasture to another depending on the condition of the pasture and how the cattle are grazing on the grasses.

Visit the Ohes at the Fergus Falls Farmers Market and check out their Facebook page for great pictures and information about their daily farming activities.

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