Texas has four registered producers and they are spread across four different Texases. 1915 Farm is on the Gulf Coast prairie at Meyersville. Field to Fork Farms is in the East Texas pines near Bullard. Holland Cattle Company is in the Hill Country at Marble Falls. Forrest Ranch Beef is out on the Llano Estacado at Slaton, south of Lubbock. The country changes so much across that span that the ranches have almost nothing in common except the state line and the standard.
Two of them are explicitly regenerative. 1915 Farm rotates cattle, heritage hogs and chickens through 57 acres with enough rest between passes for the grass and soil to recover, and dry ages and cuts its beef in house at its own meatery. Field to Fork Farms raises 100 percent grass finished beef on fields that are never sprayed, with no hormones, vaccines or pharmaceuticals, and sells shares that fill a family's freezer.
The other two are long legacies. Holland Cattle Company works the original Samuel Ely Holland Ranch in Burnet County, bought in 1848, and raises cattle, sheep, hogs, chickens and wildlife together on native grasses, dry aging the beef 14 to 18 days after a Texas state inspected family butcher cuts it. Forrest Ranch Beef has been in the Forrest family over 100 years and is raising its sixth generation, running cattle on ranch pasture, grass raised and grain supplemented to finish.
For a Texas buyer that is real choice: grass finished or grain finished, an eighth of a beef or a single steak, a monthly meat club, a whole animal reservation, or a box shipped from the farm.
Written from what the listed ranches publish about their own operations. Availability, pricing and shipping are theirs and change without notice.