Anderson Ranches
Brownsville, Oregon (Willamette Valley), USA
oregon-lamb.com ↗verification source ↗
Quality assessment
Caveats
IDENTITY: confirmed as the SAME entity Bon Appetit's 'On The Line: Antico Nuovo' video names as 'Anderson Ranch over in Oregon' (chef Arturo, on camera, re: a 25 lb goat) -- matched on family name (Anderson), state (Oregon), and Willamette Valley location across own site, Capital Press 2022 profile, and Certified Humane registry page. This resolves the 'matching name is not an identity' flag raised at intake (Anderson Ranches Oregon is broadly known for LAMB, not goat). PRODUCT CAVEAT: the ranch's own marketing site (oregon-lamb.com) and its Cream Co. Meats wholesale program page describe ONLY lamb (breeds Dorset/Suffolk/Hampshire/Coopworth/Romney -- no goat breed listed) -- goat is not confirmed as a current line on the ranch's own first-party copy. Goat is corroborated only by: (1) a distributor resale page (goodeggs.com: 'Anderson Ranches offers 100% grass-fed lamb and goat'), (2) a 2013 FARM SHOW trade piece noting the processing plant 'can also process cattle and goats' (a processing-capability claim, not necessarily their own goat herd), and (3) the ranch's own YouTube channel referencing a docuseries episode 'Adding 500 Goats to Our Ranch.' Net: entity identity is CONFIRMED; the specific claim that Antico Nuovo's goat comes from this ranch is LIKELY (chef's own on-camera claim, name/location match, and plausible per multiple secondary goat references) rather than fully first-party CONFIRMED, since the producer's flagship site markets lamb only.
Fifth-generation family sheep ranch (Anderson Ranches Oregon Lamb, LLC) in Brownsville, Oregon's Willamette Valley, run by Reed and Robyn Anderson and sons Jake and Travis. Vertically integrated: raises its own grass-fed lambs and operates its own USDA-inspected on-farm abattoir (Kalapooia facility, opened 2013), which per a 2022 Capital Press profile harvests/processes about 25,000 lambs and goats plus 6,000 cattle annually. Certified Humane since 2014.
Products
lambgoat
Practices
grass-fed, pasture-raisednever fed grain or byproductsCertified Humanevertically integrated (own USDA abattoir)antibiotic/hormone-free
Certifications
Certified Humane
Served at
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