Western Reserve (WR Reserve)
Mid — a Nebraska-based branded beef programme.
Hastings, Nebraska, USA
wrreserve.com ↗verification source ↗
Quality assessment
A USDA-certified CARCASS SPECIFICATION over a network of unnamed independent ranchers — structurally the same object as Creekstone's G-schedule programme, which this rubric anchors at commodity. The G107 certification is real and verifiable, and it certifies breed type and grade, not how the animal was raised. 'Humanely raised' is asserted with nothing behind it and scores zero by rule.
- Scale
- Mid — a Nebraska-based branded beef programme.
- Feed & inputs
- Corn-finished ~100 days — published and specific, not third-party verified.
- Animal welfare
- ASSERTED ONLY ('humane, responsible'), no audited standard named. Scores 0 by rule.
- Environmental
- Nothing located.
- Transparency
- MEDIUM — open about being a sourcing programme with rancher partners; no rancher, feedlot or audit is named.
Caveats
The only registry string match is 'Western Reserve Distillers, LLC' (Lakewood OH, HANDLING) — a different legal entity, excluded as NOT EVIDENCED. Named by Carversteak and Main St. Provisions; Main St.'s menu copy calls it 'a Nebraska source for humanely raised' beef, which is the brand's own asserted claim repeated, not independent verification.
Nebraska Angus beef brand family (Western Reserve Protein Group). Sources cattle from independent farmers and ranchers under a USDA-certified Angus programme — USDA AMS G107, 'WR Reserve Premium Black Angus Beef' — and markets graded programmes including a 'High Choice' Private Treaty line.
Products
Angus beef
Practices
USDA AMS certified beef programme G107 (Black Angus carcass specification)states livestock is 'raised in a humane, responsible way' — asserted, no third-party welfare audit locatedcorn-finished (~100 days) per brand materials
Certifications
USDA AMS Certified Beef Program G107 — WR Reserve Premium Black Angus Beef
Served at
Sources
What the quality assessment above is built on.
- wrreserve.com ↗
Nebraska base, sourcing from independent ranchers, USDA certified programme, Private Treaty grade line
- ams.usda.gov ↗
G107 WR Reserve Premium Black Angus Beef specification