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All Natural, Fresh Never Frozen, Dry Aged Beef
The
Vanderberg Ranch
Ripon, California
The
Ranch
(L
to R) Owner/Rancher Leonard Vanderberg,
with Curt Schmidt, also a rancher.
Owner
Leonard Vanderberg still works the ranch
exclusively with his wife, and four children.
Their commitment goes far beyond the usual
exclusion of antibiotics, hormones, and
chemicals in their feed that is the trademarked
conversation of most natural and organic
ranchers. The lifestyle of the animals is
just as important as the feed they receive.
The total combined effort of their knowledge
and experience with livestock has contributed
to their production of the finest tasting
natural meat you could ever hope to taste.
Almond
hulls ready to be added in to feed.
There
are never more than 200 cattle on the ranch
at any given time. They are then grouped
together according to size, instead of age,
so as to avoid pecking order disputes among
the animals, which causes stress. Stress
affects the taste of the meat !
The
grass fed plains that feed the animals are
grown from unfertilized soil and fresh water
that flows down from the Sierra Nevada mountains.
There are no recycled elements or products
of any kind used in the raising of these
cattle.
Feed
is brought in from local farmers who grow
their crops free of pesticides specifically
for the Vanderberg Ranch. The steers are
fed twice daily with a combination of corn,
barley, grass and naturally occurring minerals
such as salt. This is a slow growth feed
process that requires more time to get the
steers up to weight, but the time and effort
produce the most flavorful results.
Large
commercial operations harvest entire herds
and spray the carcasses with chlorinated
water to bleach the fat and prevent shrinkage.
Our steers are individually assessed and
harvested at their peak, then chilled naturally.
All of this takes more time, effort and
money, but the results are worth it.
But
that is just the tip of the nutritional
iceberg.
The
Diet
Nice,
healthy flaked Corn Product
A
lot of the nutrition comes from corn, but
from different parts of the corn. The hard
outer shell of the corn is good, digestive
feed. It is flattened, then steam rolled,
and cut into nice, big nutritional flakes.
The large flakes give the cattle something
to chew on, making the meal more enjoyable,
and therefore, more nutritious. Corn gluten,
which yields a whopping 19% of the protein
that the animal consumes, is part of the
grain kernel itself. Added into to the feed,
this is the highest individual form of nutritional
content that the cattle receive! The TDN,
or Total Digestive Nutrients, is 60% , which
means that 60% of all the protein that is
consumed by the animal is actually used
by the body, and is digestible.
Final
Feed Product in Hand
Add
to this almond hulls, oats, rice bran, soybean
meal, mineral, and cotton lint (a by product
of the cotton seed which is very digestible)
, and you have a complete feeding system
for the cattle on the Vanderberg Ranch.
This not only contributes to the nutritious
well being of the animals, but you can begin
to understand why this beef tastes so superior
to other forms of beef that have been branded
as either Natural or Organic.
Feed
is bagged in large, sterilized, containers
for animal safety.
All
feed is then bagged, to avoid contamination.
As
the seasons turn, the feed is fine tuned
in order to get the best performance out
of the animal.
The
Commitment
Leonard
Vanderberg , a rancher who brings superior
commitment to the care and feeding of his
cattle, says, “There are many ways
to feed an animal, and many ways to cut
corners, but when it is all said and done,
there are no shortcuts when it comes to
taste.”
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