There are 300,000 buffalo in the United States. South Dakota has the largest population, 27,000. Ted Turner is the largest private owner of buffalo in the United States. Buffalo eat mainly grass and are grain finished. Cake is a delicious treat used to trap Buffalo.
Buffalo is the animal.
Bison is the meat. Tatonka is the Indian name for Buffalo. Take five guys, several herd of buffalo, add a little craziness, and you have the formula for Jefferson, S.D.'s newest Main Street business, Dakota Bison Meats. Dakota Bison Meats opened for business March 30 and is a retail walk-in buffalo meat market. Owners Steve Schmitz, Brad Beavers, Dave Staum and brothers Mike and Steve Allard all raise buffalo in southeastern South Dakota, and said that with the growing interest in the meat and the animal, now is the perfect time to enter the market.