The Dam Ranch

“The Dam Ranch has been a great experience! We bought an 1/8 cow about a month ago & wanted to wait until I actually cooked with it to review. This is total grass fed, so it is a little different then I’m use too. We are loving it!! They stayed in touch with me. Great communications! I was able to fit into my schedule. The meat was packaged in nice boxes for ease of transportation. We will be customers for life! The following is what I recieved 1/8 cow - 78.5# 20# burger Bottom round roast Sirloin steak - 2 packs T bone steak 1 - Pack Top round roast Skirt steak - 2 Beef brisket Chuck steak Chuck roast Rib eye steak - 2 Sirloin tip roast Stew meat - 2”

“I have been getting a 1/4 cow and half a pig for about a year now. I have been very happy with the product and the service. Kathy is awesome to work with. All that being said, i have to say that grass fed & finished beef can be a little tough when it's cooked. It took me a little while but i learned to cook it low and slow and to learn which cuts to tenderize or marinate. I would much rather have an extra step or 2 in the cooking process than eat the hormone and antibiotic filled cows that have been fed with glyphosate sprayed grains! This is good, healthy beef, the way God intended it to be!”

“Picked up my first order of 1/8 cow the second week in July. So far I've cooked short ribs, sirloin, flank steak. They were all tender and delicious. Ignore the person complaining about her meat being tough, you have to cook grass-fed beef a little differently. Kathy hands out a paper explaining the do's and don'ts. I'll definitely order from her again. I had to wait a few weeks for this order, but it was worth the wait and she was very good about updating me on the status. BTW most beautiful ground beef ever!”

“This was my first time ordering beef from this farm, and I had a great experience. Kathy, the owner, kept me updated throughout the process and provided lots of helpful information. I ordered a quarter of a cow and received over 100 pounds of clearly labeled meat, including steaks, stew meat, and ground beef. So far, I’ve cooked beef stew and steak, and both were absolutely delicious. The quality of the meat is excellent, and I look forward to trying the rest. I highly recommend this farm!”

“So pleased with our 1/8th purchase!! The wait time was short, the price was totally reasonable, the presentation is professional, but the flavor!!!! Omg! The flavor! It’s completely different than store bought. We cannot get over it! We are so happy. Maybe one of the best decisions I’ve made this year! We will be repeat customers!!!! Highly recommend. Except, get in line!”

“We have gone to Dam ranch for about 9/10 yrs. We had to take a break last year, as life calls for time, things happen. We are excited to reunite with Kathy. Looking forward to cooking and tasting the hard work and deliciousness they grow. The Accurso/Salas Family.”

“Stay away! I’ve been buying beef like this for well over 20 years and this is absolutely the worst ever! The ground beef is rubber and the other cuts, including ALL steaks, are VERY TOUGH and CHEWY. Bought a half cow with a friend and am embarrassed that I suggested they do this with me. The only decent part of the transaction is Kathy did reimburse for the portion of the ground beef, because enough other people also complained, but we’re still looking at over $1,000 down the toilet. I’m also tired of hearing multiple times from Kathy giving links the way to prepare the beef to make it tender. Whether marinating steaks for over a day or anything else, nothing works! Ground beef can’t even be broken up in the pan when trying to brown it. Patties made from the ground beef end up being rubber discs. Kathy stated this has never happened before. However, it has happened if you look at other reviews in recent months. I offered at least three times to drop off samples for Kathy to try (didn’t want her to take my word for it) and she wouldn’t even take it to try herself. Unlike other beef I was proud and happy to serve my guests, I will never be able to do so with this.”

“I want to share my experience and hopefully help others before they order beef from this ranch. My husband and I were very excited to get cuts of beef from a local farm. The point of us getting the meat in bulk was to save money at the grocery store. We eat a lot of beef and have slow smoked a lot of meat on our Trager. We got an 1/8 of a cow, it was easy to order and the owner was communicating with me via email giving me updates so that part was fine. We did everything to tenderize the meat, marinate, using a meat tenderizer, we cooked it low and slow and all the meat was tough. Nothing but the ground beef was edible. We ended up spending more money in the long run. Now before posting this review I did reach out to the owner, she said she checked with another person, who is a long time customer by the way, and they said their meat was fine and she was going to refund me $100, I never got the money. My husband and I value integrity coming from the Marine Corps, and this place has none. I do not recommend getting meat from here.”