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Mishima Reserve

Mid-size branded program; network of small family ranches feeding a single Montana finishing yard.

Seattle, Washington, USA

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mishimareserve.com ↗verification source ↗

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Quality assessment

A branded Wagyu-Angus crossbreeding PROGRAM, not a ranch: 100% Kuroge Washu (full-blood Japanese Wagyu) bulls bred to American Angus cows across a network of cooperating family ranches, mainly in Montana, with buyback calves finished at a feedyard near Huntley, MT. The Kuroge Washu sire genetics and the family-ranch cow-calf network are real and above commodity; the finishing is a conventional grain feedyard and no third-party certification was located.

Scale
Mid-size branded program; network of small family ranches feeding a single Montana finishing yard.
Feed & inputs
Grain-finished. Specific ration not published.
Animal welfare
Pasture-raised cow-calf phase on partner ranches, then feedlot finishing. No third-party welfare certification found.
Environmental
Nothing substantive found.
Transparency
Medium — breeding method and Montana finishing location published; individual ranch names are not.

Caveats

Menus at Sparrow + Wolf and Echo & Rig Henderson say 'Mishima Ranch' — there is no Mishima ranch; it is a brand over a producer network. Barry's Downtown Prime lists 'Mishima Reserve Farms, Seattle WA' — Seattle is the office, not where cattle are raised. Wagyu-cross, not Japanese Wagyu. OWNERSHIP (2026-08-19): Mishima Reserve is a brand of Sugar Mountain, the Seattle food group owned by Kurt Beecher Dammeier that also owns Beecher's Handmade Cheese and The Butcher's Table steakhouse (LinkedIn company page; Washington State Magazine). Menu lines reading 'Mishima Ranch' name a Seattle food company's beef brand, not a ranch.

American Wagyu beef brand from 100% Kuroge Washu genetics bred with American cows, raised on a network of small family farms under the Sugar Mountain business family; long-fed 25-28 months.

Products

American Wagyu beef

Practices

long-fed 25-28 monthszero added hormones/growth promotants

Served at

Sources

What the quality assessment above is built on.

  • mishimareserve.com ↗

    100% Kuroge Washu bulls bred to American cows; all US born and raised

  • agupdate.com ↗

    Producer network in Montana; buyback calves finished at feedlot near Huntley MT; works with Angus herds

  • crowdcow.com ↗

    Pasture-raised, grain-finished Wagyu-Angus cross; network of small family farms