 Well, in 2003, a physicist working in the Twin Cities decided to retire and move to rural Minnesota to start a beef farm. Now, one of the largest single producers of grass-fed beef in Minnesota, Stonebridge Beef provides their product to some of the most renowned restaurants in the state. With this week's In Business report, Rachel Johnson has more. Mike Stein worked as a research physicist for St. Jude's Medical Center in the Twin Cities where he researched and discovered the health benefits of certain foods. I worked the last 20 years before I started this business for the likes of Medtronics, St. Jude Medical and startup companies developing medical products. This lets Stein to practice what he preached by founding Stonebridge Grass-fed Beef as an alternative to the industrial model of raising cattle. So I got involved in this because I felt that there are some medical benefits to grass-fed beef. We don't sell it as medicine, yet we understand that there are medical benefits to this type of model. Stonebridge is located about an hour southwest of Brainerd, New Long Prairie, Minnesota. Stonebridge Beef is one of the largest grass-fed beef suppliers in the state, supplying to the greater Minnesota and metro area. Grass-fed beef is much healthier than feed-raised beef due to it containing much more omega-3 fats. The omega-3 fats provide a kind of undercurrent of anti-inflammatory agents. Inflammation, of course, is maybe the fundamental sort of anomaly that involves the production of cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes. Stein says that Stonebridge Beef has grown more than he ever expected, and he is hopeful for the future of the food industry in Minnesota. It's a focus of a lot of the better food movements, and that movement is actually spreading out to smaller towns like Brainerd and like, you know, St. Cloud and other places, and we're seeing more. We're finding our sales in some of these smaller cities is increasing, so that's a good thing as well. Reporting from Long Prairie with this week's In Business, Rachel Johnson, Lakeland News. Stonebridge provides grass-fed beef to over 500 families, as well as well-known restaurants in the Twin Cities as well. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.