Registered American Beef Producer
Thousand Hills Cattle Ranch
A rancher who knows each animal, manages each animal, and inspects each one before processing.
Barnesville, Georgia
Verified Member
Thousand Hills Cattle Ranch is a Georgia beef cattle ranch that supplies local beef to local people. The cattle are custom raised and rotated through healthy pastures, and the finished cattle are processed and dry aged to make what the ranch calls a true craft product.
The ranch raises cattle the way it was done in the early years of American cattle ranching, before the industry industrialized. Cattle are pasture raised and pasture finished on native grasses and legumes, with a free choice supplement of grains, vitamins and minerals to balance the forage, so the animals choose what they eat. Today's knowledge of genetics, nutrition and health management is combined with regenerative practice and old fashioned animal husbandry. Ivan Minks puts his promise plainly: he knows each animal, manages each animal, and inspects each one before processing.
The name comes from Psalm 50, and the cattle on a thousand hills. Animals for the table are harvested at about 30 months at a local, family run, organic certified abattoir and hung to age for two weeks. The ranch store carries the beef alongside chicken, pork, eggs and seafood sourced from named local producers.
What they raise
- Dry aged beef by the cut
- Ranch beef boxes
- Whole animal and wholesale orders
- The ranch store, open Thursday through Saturday
Registered American Beef Producer
Registered American Beef Producer. We confirmed the operation is an American family farm or ranch selling beef it raised itself before we listed it. That is our review of the operation, not a USDA certification. See what we check.
Shipping and availability
Sold at the ranch store in Barnesville, open Thursday through Saturday, and online. Shipping reach is not stated.
Shipping terms are the ranch's, they change, and the ranch's own site is the authority.
The operation.
Photographs published by the ranch itself, showing the country it runs on and the cattle it raises.
This profile was written from Thousand Hills Cattle Ranch's own published material at thousandhillscattleranch.com. Availability, pricing and shipping are theirs and change without notice.
Where the ranch is.
Barnesville, Georgia. No street address is published for any producer on this site, because none was published by the ranches and none was collected. The marker is the town.
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Buy beef direct from Thousand Hills Cattle Ranch.
You order on the ranch's own site. American Beef Direct never handles the order, the payment or the beef.