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Cross Creek Ranch Premium Meats

Single ranch, DTC plus commercial restaurant program.

Near Hesperus, Colorado (Rocky Mountain foothills), USA

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Solid

Quality assessment

A named single ranch in the Colorado Rockies near Hesperus running FULL BLOOD Wagyu from Japanese genetics alongside American Wagyu and Red Devons, selling direct to consumers and through a dedicated restaurant partner program. Full-blood (not crossbred) Wagyu on a named US ranch is genuinely above the American Wagyu norm. Held at solid because the marbling is self-graded on the MIJ-30 scale with in-house 'meets or exceeds A4/A5' claims — that is the ranch grading itself, not a third-party grader — and no welfare, organic or grassfed certification was located.

Scale
Single ranch, DTC plus commercial restaurant program.
Feed & inputs
Not published in located sources; full-blood Wagyu programs are grain-finished by category convention.
Animal welfare
No third-party certification located.
Environmental
Nothing located.
Transparency
Medium — the ranch and location are named; the grading is self-administered.

Caveats

LOCATION CORRECTION: the CEO purveyor list groups this with Texas/California suppliers — the ranch is in COLORADO near Hesperus, not Texas. Also note a distinct 'Cross Creek Ranch' master-planned community exists in Fulshear, Texas: DO NOT conflate. Self-graded A4/A5-equivalent claims should not be scored as USDA or JMGA grades. Not yet linked to a venue row.

Family-owned Wagyu ranch based in Hesperus, Colorado (near Durango), raising Full Blood and American (Wagyu-Angus cross) cattle from birth through its own on-site processing facility. Markets grass-fed beef under the Foutz family's direct 'ranch to plate' model.

Products

Full Blood Wagyu beefAmerican Wagyu beefRed Devon beef

Served at

Sources

What the quality assessment above is built on.