Ranch-Style Ground Beef

Advantages

  1. Entire Animal Utilization - Other beef companies only use specific parts of a cow to make ground beef - think trim and roasts. Our ground beef combines all cuts into a single delicious package. We grind and blend traditional steaks, briskets, roasts, tenderloins, rib meat and trim. You can taste the difference!

  2. Single Animal Origin - Other beef labels combine parts and pieces of many cattle to create their ground beef - sometimes a single package will contain meat from hundreds of animals. Our ground beef packages originate from a single animal.

  3. Locally Processed - Our beef is processed at a USDA-certified butcher within an hour of our partner ranches.

  4. Single Region to Single Region - Our beef is procured from a small region in central Nebraska and sold only in the greater Denver area. Our family has strong ties to each region and current members live in each area today.

  5. Simplicity - We are committed to providing the best tasting product and therefore sell only a single product - ground beef.

Sourcing

Better Ground utilizes under-utilized cattle to create our premium product. Our beef comes from one of two sources:

Cull Cows - Cull cows live a number of happy years on pasture raising a new calf or two every year. When these cows are past their most fertile years, they are primed for the beef market and because they are older, they do not command as high a price as other beef cattle.

That is where we come in. We buy these cows from our neighbors for our ground beef. In true rancher style, we grind the whole animal, creating one of the tastiest ground beefs available.

Yearlings - Yearlings are 1-year old cattle typically raised by backgrounding ranchers on wide open, native grasslands. It’s inevitable that a yearling or two will get minor injuries out in the pasture every season via natural causes - running recklessly down a hill, stepping into a hole, etc (think dislocated shoulder). If they are happy, healthy, and mobile, they are good candidates for Better Ground

Although a steak from a yearling might not be full-sized, grinding the whole animal creates one delicious ground beef.