7X Ranch
Mid -- roughly 3,500 head with 8 employees as of press coverage; sells nationally to restaurants (Aspen, Denver, NYC, Boston, Las Vegas) plus direct online.
Hotchkiss / Peonia, Colorado (North Fork Valley), USA
7xbeef.com ↗verification source ↗
Quality assessment
A real, named, founder-run Colorado ranch since ~2009 with a genuinely distinctive claim -- 100% fullblood (not F1/F2 crossbred) Wagyu, DNA-verified back to named Japanese sire lines -- which is a stronger traceability claim than the crossbred programs common in this batch. That claim is producer-asserted, not independently registry-verified, and no third-party certification was found, so it lands at 'solid' rather than 'exemplary.'
- Scale
- Mid -- roughly 3,500 head with 8 employees as of press coverage; sells nationally to restaurants (Aspen, Denver, NYC, Boston, Las Vegas) plus direct online.
Caveats
A separate domain (bearranchcattle.com) also carried a page titled '7X Ranch' in search results but resolved to 'Site Currently Unavailable' on direct fetch -- treated as dead/unreliable and not used as a source.
Products
fullblood red wagyu beef
Practices
100% fullblood Japanese Red Wagyu (DNA-verified pedigree back to named Japanese sire lines: Hikari, Big Al, Shigemaru, Tamamaru)Cattle allowed to grow at their own pace on grass, grain, and spring water; no hormones or antibioticsDNA testing and pedigree records kept on the full herd
Served at
No venues are linked to this farm yet — links appear as evidence is traced.
Sources
What the quality assessment above is built on.
- aspentimes.com ↗
Location (Hotchkiss CO), founder Rob Gill, DNA-traced fullblood genetics, herd size, restaurant distribution including Las Vegas
- 7xbeef.com ↗
Active current retail site for the same 7X Beef brand