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River Valley Ranch keeps a closed herd of registered purebred Highland cattle.  The calves are born and raised to maturity right here on our farm.  Our Highland beef is a cut above.

Highlands grow slower and here they are raised on a free range grass fed regime that gives you the ultimate in taste and health profile in your beef.  The Highland’s double coat helps insulate and keep them warm in our Rocky Mountain winters.  With their special coat they develop intramuscular tenderizing fat instead of excess back fat.  What you get is a tender, lightly marbled and flavourful beef for your table.

Highland beef is cooked low and slow and steaks on the grill/charcoal are best done medium rare and no further.  Generally grill your steaks with a closed-lid bbq at 250F until rare and then raise the temperature for a very quick 300F sear at the end and serve!  Oven roasting is best done at 175 to 200F.  Put the roast in frozen, in a heavy dutch oven with the lid put on just slightly cocked open.  Generously start with something like avocado oil or lard on the bottom of the pot, place a couple of sliced onions first to cover the bottom and then place your frozen roast on top.  Slather the frozen roast with olive oil, add a touch of balsamic vinegar, some soya sauce or salt, a touch of pepper and a dusting of herbs like marjoram and you will get the most tasty accompanying sauce that is pre-made when finished.  Just add some water later on if desired during the cooking process or at the end for more sauce on the stove top and plan for 6, 8 or more hours oven roasting time depending on your oven.  We like the roasts towards well done but experiment to find your preference.  The Highland ground is outstanding as we process our animals in the 3 to 5 year old age range.  You will find the ground to be very flavourful with very little grease to pour off, meaning there is very little shrinkage.

Independent testing has shown that Highland beef is significantly lower in fat and cholesterol and higher in protein, iron and the good omega-3 fatty acids than commercial grain fed beef.  Being Certified Organic means no antibiotics, urea proteins, lick tubs, hormones or Ractopamine are fed to our animals.  Attention to detail is important to us in raising food for you.  Commercial salt licks with non-organic additives are not used – the Highland’s get free choice premium Sea-90 mineral salt.  The animals are out year round and forage most of the year on our own pastures (which are rich in native grasses, herbs and forbs) and in the winter the standing pasture forage is supplement with Certified Organic Hay.  Our regime means the cows are not getting laden with glyphosate, adjuvants, pesticides, Grazon or other herbicides.

You (our valued customers), your family, your children and grandchildren deserve a premium quality food source that incorporates a high level of respect for animal and human health, welfare and the environment.

We sell wholes, halves, or mixed quarters.  Once a year we offer a whole animal mince/grind which is sold in 40 pound shares with mealtime portions individually bagged.

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