"JX Ranch Natural Beef" is from animals that have received no antibiotics in their feed and have no growth implants and are never fed any animal by-products whatsoever.  In contrast, most beef that you see in the grocery stores comes from feedlots where cattle are likely to receive antibiotics as well as growth implants.  "JX Ranch Natural Beef" is entirely range-raised beef, and therefore high in healthy Omega-3 fatty acids.  The animal has been handled humanely and raised in its natural environment throughout its entire life, and will provide you and your family with healthy, wholesome and lean meat.  The weight and yield will vary somewhat from one animal to another.

You send us a deposit together with your completed Custom Order Form or JX Ranch Package to reserve your whole beef, 1/2 or 1/4 of a beef.  When we get close to processing day, we will weigh the animal, notify you of the amount you will then send us to complete the purchase of the animal.  (The price of a whole beef is currently $1.60/lb, a 1/2 beef is $1.65, and a 1/4 beef is $1.75/lb.)  We will then transport the animal to Fort Sumner Processing, where it will be dry-aged for 14 days, packaged as per your Order Form or JX Ranch Package, and frozen.  If you pick up your meat, you will pay Fort Sumner Processing for the processing, which we estimate, depending in the size and yield, will cost approx. $256 for a whole beef, $128 for 1/2 beef and $64 for 1/4 beef.  If you want the packaged and frozen meat sent to you, we ship it via Fed-Ex (cooler-return deposit required) to any of the contiguous United States. 

We estimate a total price of $4.74 per pound of meat for a whole young beef (approx. 307 lb of package meat), $4.88 per pound for a half or side (approx. 153 lb of packaged meat), and $5.08 for a quarter (half of a half) beef (approx. 77 lb. of packaged meat). This price is for all "cuts" -- T-bone steaks, rib steaks, roasts, hamburger, organs etc -- and includes all slaughter and processing costs.  As to freezer space required, a whole beef will require approximately 7 cubic feet and half a beef 3.5 cubic feet.

Our young beef are raised to about 450 - 500 lb pounds on native range with their mothers as they are rotated from pasture to pasture.  At about eight months old they are weaned and put into a separate pasture where they continue to graze free range.  For a few weeks before slaughter, we supplement the grass diet with a little free-choice corn or barley in the pasture to creates some marbling in the beef and enrich the flavor.  These yearling animals are slaughtered at about 700 to 800 pounds which is 400 to 500 pounds less than the weight of industrially raised cattle.  Because they are younger,  free-ranging and raised in a low-stress, natural and humane environment, the beef is lean and healthy.  If some of our calves are heavier than 500 lb while still on milk (as well as grass) we will offer a limited number milk/grassfed beef in the fall.  Although the amount of meat will be less than from a 700 - 800 lb beef, this type of meat will be extremely tender and succulent.

 We transport the beef to the small town of Fort Sumner, NM, where it will be processed at Fort Sumner Processing which is a clean, family owned and operated, and U.S.D.A. inspected, facility.  They will dry-age the beef for 14 - 21 days and then process the beef according to your specifications 
(see order forms).  

An average beef, weighing between 700 - 800 lb, depending on size and yield, would give you approximately 307 lb. of meat, a half beef approximately 153 lb. of meat and a 1/4 beef will give you approx. 77 lb of meat.  On the custom order form (whole and half beef only) you may choose exactly what cuts you want, how thick you want your steaks, how big you want your roasts, and how lean you want your hamburger meat etc.  An even simpler way is to choose our JX Ranch package, which is the selection we use for our own meat.  For orders of 1/4 beef use the JX Ranch Package.  You can ask for dog bones, kidney etc for your pets.  If you have any questions at all, please contact us and we'll be glad to help you. 

Orders may be cancelled without charge up until the moment when the cattle has been rounded-up for shipment, we will charge your credit card at that point.  We cannot accept cancellations once the animal leaves the ranch.  If you wish to cancel or change your order please let us know promptly if you do not receive confirmation please call us at 505-487-2419 or 575-487-2419 (new area code).  No order is considered cancelled until you have received a cancellation confirmation.  We cannot accept returns.  Let us know if you are pleased, or not happy, with your shipment.  

We will transport the beef to the processor in Fort Sumner.  Unless you pick up your frozen meat yourself, orders are shipped from the meat processor via FedEx nationwide, and we will email you the tracking number.  Shipping is not available to APO/P.O. boxes or outside of the FedEx delivery area or to rural areas where timely delivery cannot be certain.  We will contact you when your shipment is ready and confirm a delivery date.  We are not responsible for shipping delays or damage.  Packaged meats are frozen and cooled in shipment with dry-ice by the meat processor.  Coolers are shipped on Monday for receipt by Wednesday or Thursday if Express-shipped, or by Friday if ground-shipped.  We will need a $75 refundable deposit for the coolers, and the deposit will be returned to you when coolers are sent back.  Meat should be placed in freezer immediately upon receipt.