Buy Beef Direct: Direct From Producer
Buying beef directly from the producer means the farm or ranch that raised the animal is the one you buy from. No packer, no distributor and no grocery chain in between, and on this site, no middleman either: we connect you, and the producer sells.
Most beef in a grocery store passes through several hands: the ranch sells calves, a feedlot finishes them, a packer harvests and boxes the beef, and a distributor and a retailer sell it to you. Beef direct from the farm or ranch skips all of that. The producer raises the animal, arranges processing, and sells the beef to you, by the cut, by the box or by the share.
Farm to table beef and ranch to table beef describe the same idea from the plate end, and farm to freezer or ranch to freezer beef describes the way most of it is bought: in quantity, frozen, to stock a home freezer. The common thread is that you know where your beef was raised and who raised it, and the producer keeps more of what you pay.
American Beef Direct exists to make that easier. We are a registry of American beef producers, not a store. Every profile and every member listing sends you to the producer's own website, phone or store, and we never take the order, the payment or a commission.
Search the map, open your state page, or browse the category hubs for whole, half and quarter beef, shares and bulk beef.
Read the profile or the producer's own site: the breed, the grazing, the finish, the processing and the aging.
By the cut or the box for a first taste, or a share to stock the freezer. Producers often sell several ways.
You order and pay on the producer's own site or directly with the farm or ranch, and collect, receive delivery or have it shipped.
Most direct beef customers end up with a producer they go back to every season. That relationship is the point.
A good producer is glad to answer every one of these. Ask before you put down a deposit, and compare producers on the same answers.
Every one of these producers sells its own beef directly to consumers. Each profile is written from the producer's own material and links to its own store.
Dewey, Arizona
Founded in 2007 by Tim Petersen, a third generation meat cutter and first generation cattle rancher. The cattle graze native Arizona grasses year round, and every cut is dry aged and hand cut in the company's own USDA inspected plant.
From the ranch's own listing: Dry aged, hand cut steaks
Eloy, Arizona
Mark and Annette Smith are fourth generation Eloy area farmers who went back to their ranching roots in 2021 to raise American Wagyu. The herd eats alfalfa, corn, barley, bermuda, triticale and oats grown on the family's own ground.
From the ranch's own listing: Individual American Wagyu cuts
Wiley, Colorado
Four generations and about 120 years on the same southeast Colorado range. Cattle are grass fed on open range and finished on grain, alfalfa and corn the family grows itself, then dry aged, hand packed and shipped nationwide.
From the ranch's own listing: Steak boxes, including ribeye, T-bone, New York strip and sirloin
Hampton, Georgia
Wayne, Charmaine and Jekhi Swanson run a 32 acre farm south of Atlanta raising Georgia Pineywoods cattle, hair sheep and heritage hogs on pasture and in the woods, with no commercial feed, steroids or hormones.
From the ranch's own listing: Eighth, quarter and half beef shares
Barnesville, Georgia
Ivan Minks raises cattle on rotated Georgia pasture, finished on native grasses and legumes with a free choice supplement, then dry aged into a craft product. The ranch also runs a store carrying local pork, chicken, eggs and seafood.
From the ranch's own listing: Dry aged beef by the cut
Stonewall, Oklahoma
Roger and Nikki Callison are third and fourth generation Oklahoma ranchers who have grown a herd of 20 heifers into more than 350 cows. Every animal is raised on the ranch start to finish and the beef is dry aged 21 to 28 days.
From the ranch's own listing: Dry aged steaks, including filet mignon, ribeye and New York strip
Meyersville, Texas
Tanner and Catherine left careers in oil and gas and pharmaceutical sales to restore a 1915 farmhouse on 57 acres and raise beef, chicken and heritage hogs on pasture. Beef is dry aged and cut by the farm's own butchers.
From the ranch's own listing: Dry aged grass fed beef, by the cut
Bullard, Texas
The Haughee family farms regeneratively near Bullard, Texas, raising 100 percent grass finished beef alongside pastured chicken and pork. Fields are never sprayed and the animals never receive hormones or pharmaceuticals.
From the ranch's own listing: 100 percent grass finished beef shares
Slaton, Texas
The ranch has been in the Forrest family for over 100 years and is raising its sixth generation. Amber and Casey Davis and their daughters run cattle on ranch pasture, finished on grass and grain, with no hormones or antibiotics.
From the ranch's own listing: Eighth, quarter, half and whole beef
Marble Falls, Texas
Beef from the original Samuel Ely Holland Ranch in Burnet County, established by the family's great great grandfather in 1848. Cattle are pasture raised and grass fed, and the beef is dry aged 14 to 18 days.
From the ranch's own listing: Whole, half, quarter and eighth beef
Wells, Nevada
A family ranch in Clover Valley, in the foothills of the East Humboldt range, started in 1947 and now in its fifth generation. Jordan and Kari Lyn Brough sell the ranch's Wagyu and Angus beef direct, from a single cut to a whole beef.
From the ranch's own listing: Wagyu steaks, ground beef and burger patties
Washoe Valley, Nevada
A family that has been ranching and farming in Nevada for more than 50 years, running a co-op of Nevada ranches and farms. The beef is grass fed, grass finished and dry aged, and customers pre-order and collect at one of five posted locations.
From the ranch's own listing: Grass fed, grass finished, dry aged beef
Wheatland, Wyoming
The Goertz family has raised cattle and wheat on the same southeast Wyoming ground since 1910, and started selling beef direct in 2004. The cattle graze prairie grass and cover crops, finish on grain raised on the family's own farm, and are dry aged 21 days.
From the ranch's own listing: Dry aged steaks and roasts
Yoder, Colorado
Freedom Acres Ranch is a Marine Corps veteran family's ranch in Yoder, Colorado, founded in 2020 to bring healthy, farm fresh food to families who lack it. The cattle are grass fed and free range, every product is Certified Homegrown by Heroes, and the beef ships to every state.
From the ranch's own listing: Grass fed, free range beef
These are the producers with full written profiles. Many more farms and ranches are on the registry with a listing, and every one of them is on its own state page.
Every state has its own page listing the farms and ranches on record there, the nearest producers in neighboring states, and the ranches that ship. These states have at least one member today.
American Beef Direct is a registry of American beef producers. We help you find a farm or ranch and learn how it raises its cattle, then send you to the producer's own website, phone or store. We never take the order, the deposit, the payment or a commission, and the producer is always the authority on price, availability and pickup or shipping.
Search the map or open your state to find farms and ranches selling beef close to home.