Welcome to HFW BEEF. We are a site that only handles meats that are raised Naturally from start to finish. Additionally, NO antibiotics or growth hormones can be used in the animals that we offer. That is the reason we handle HFW Premium Gourmet Beef.

Please read a little about Naturally raised HFW Beef.

HFW™ gourmet Texas beef has NO growth hormones or antibiotics added. HFW beef cattle are grass-fed from start to finish. Our beef packages are Dry-Aged which concentrates the good beefy flavor instead of wet-aged like most grocery store beef. We sell our beef by 1/4, 1/2, & whole steer packages and it is priced per pound by hanging weight (dressed, hot). See our available animal page or call or email for information on availability, current price per lbs., and deposit amounts.

Animals are sold on a first come first serve basis.

If you like we can put your name and information in our meat sales interest data base and email you when we post new animal packages that are available for purchase.

HFW beef is lean Natural Grass-Fed Texas beef. Flavor and tenderness are the standards in judging your beef eating experience and that is what you get with HFW™ gourmet beef. Many people are concerned about the growth hormones injected into animals to get them to gain weight fast and antibiotics injected or in their feed to keep them healthy while they are in the feed lot to finish them before they go to the packing house. We have elected NOT to go that route. We offer only naturally raised beef from open free range pastures that are finished on lush green winter grasses. These beeves take two years before they are ready for harvest and not the shorter time used for feed lot cows.

HFW animals are DNA tested for the Tenderness and Marbling Genes so their beef cattle will provide you with tender juicy premium meats.

HFW beef packages are from beeves that are raised and finished out by the same ranch not bought at one ranch, shipped across the country and finished at another ranch or feed lot. You have the assurance that HFW beef is raised from start to finish at the same ranch and not fed or injected with growth hormones or antibiotics. With HFW Beef, you don't have to worry about where your beef came from or if your hamburger is a mixture of a bunch of cows bought at an auction and processed as a group. Your hamburger will not be a mixture of three or four different animals but come from one cow. All your meat comes from a single steer that you purchase even if you only buy 1/4 steer. You wouldn't believe some of the cows that I have seen at the auctions. They are so old they are about to fall over dead. These animals are bought to make hamburger out of the whole cow. The rancher wants to get something for the animal so he takes them to the auction. The meat buyers don't care about the condition of the cow because it is going to be burger and there is a market for that. Hello fast food. I bet you don't think of that when you are shopping for hamburger in the grocery store or stopping by your friendly Mickey D's.

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR BEEF IS COMMING FROM

You do when you purchase HFW Premium Gourmet Beef packages. You know that they haven't been fed copious amounts of corn laced with antibiotics to keep them healthy while in confined feed lots or given growth hormones to speed up weight gains. Our animals roam open pastures for two years before they reach harvest size and are finished (fattened up) on lush green pastures.

The Murray Grey is our breed of choice. They are medium framed cows that will grow to a mature weight faster than a larger framed cow such as those used in feed lot operations. Murray Grey's finish well on grass and have a good meat to bone ratio. Meaning more meat weight and less bone weight as compared to larger framed cattle such as those found in the feed lots. Our beef cattle are all naturally raised and are finished on grass as opposed to grain. Reports show Grass-fed beef to be higher in Omega-3 fatty acid (See Benefits of Grass Fed Beef) and in conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) than grain-fed beef. Omega-3's and CLA's have been reported to aid in the human immune system in fighting off cancers and other diseases. These benefits are greatly diminished and the ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 get out of balance when an animal is finished on grain instead of grass. Did you know that Organic beef can be fed grain and still be called Organic? Natural grass fed/finished beef can not have grain to finish them out and still be called Natural grass fed beef. Our beef cattle are never given any growth hormones, implants, antibiotics, or feeds with animal byproducts in them just like Organic beef but they are not finished out on grain. They are all raised on grass and finished on grass. (See Eat Wild) you should read this.

Many of HFW Beef animals have been DNA tested for the Tenderness and Marbling Genes and are posted on the animals that it is known on. DNA testing means that the offspring should have the same traits as the parents. Selecting an animal with the most gene markers for tenderness means that when the meat is aging in the cold storage the gene that is responsible for tenderizing the meat works its magic; gives you tender meat. If you have heard of meat that is guaranteed tender that you pay dearly for, this is the DNA markers that are used. Marbling was thought to dictated the tenderness of the meat by many. The industry uses marbling measurements for quality grade of an animal, (choice, prime, etc). Hence the perception by a majority of the public that marbling equates to tenderness. Think back, haven't you had a steak that was well marbled yet it still seemed tough. Tenderness is determined by the animal having the tenderness gene and the amount of time the carcass hangs, (ages), allowing the genes to tenderize the meat and concentrating the beef flavors. If mass marketed meat is butchered, packaged, and shipped out to the grocery stores not allowing the time for the gene to tenderize the meat, you still get tough steaks, even if the animal had the gene. This is what is known as "wet aged beef"; letting it age in its own juices on its way to the grocery stores. Hence, the number of times you get to eat a tender steak has declined hasn't it?

Marbling is when there is intra muscular fat; fat inside the muscle not just on the outside of the muscle. Marbling actually gives you that good feel in the mouth when eating the meat and adds to the flavor when cooking. We also try to use animals that have this allusive marbling gene. These animals have the gene to produce marbling in the meat Naturally from grass instead of stuffing them with grains as with the feed lots. However animals with very many markers of this gene are not very prevalent.

Many grocery stores have beef from feed lot animals similar to the ones in the above picture except on a much larger scale. This beef has usually had growth hormones injected into them and are fed copious amounts of grain laced with antibiotics to keep them healthy and put weight on them fast just before harvesting them. Here is a little information about the growth hormones. They are a time release capsule that is injected into the calf at a young age by the ear area. Can you imagine what these growth hormones that help the cow gain weight fast does to us if that is transferred to us in the food chain? "They" say it doesn't affect us and it is not in the meat by the time we eat it. Me, I don't know, but I don't want to rely on what "They" say, who ever "They" are. And "they" wonder why the populous is overweight and antibiotic resistant bugs are rampant. I'm not claiming anything, but you do the math. I personally don't want to eat that type of beef; even when I wasn't raising beef. Cows are ruminants. Their stomachs are designed to digest grass not grain. Heavy grain diets change the acidity in the cow's stomach allowing e-coli to become more acid tolerant. This makes for a greater chance of any those e-coli making into our diets survive making us sick. That is why we finish our beef Naturally on grass not grain and we DO NOT inject them with growth hormones to get them to gain weight fast or feed them genetically altered corn or animal by products. Our animals are raised on grass and finished on grass. It may take a little longer but it's worth it, to get HFW Gourmet Texas Beef that is Naturally better beef. We don't just raise our beef to sell, we also eat our own beef.

We offer animals that have been treated humanely and raised in a free range fashion. Our goal is to offer animals that come from parents with the most DNA markers for the Tenderness and Marbling genes. Give HFW premium dry aged beef a try, I'm sure you will like it.

We sell beef packages in 1/4, 1/2, & whole animal packages. All are priced on a per pound basis on hot hanging weight, (bone included). After harvesting, our packers will DRY AGE the meat (let it hang in the cooler) letting the DNA enzymes do their work tenderizing your beef naturally and concentrating that good beefy flavor as some of the water evaporates. After this they are cut to your specification (on 1/2 steer packages), vacuum wrap, and hard frozen. You can pick up your beef from the packing house or pay for the shipping cost to your location which ever you prefer.

Visit beef sales page for availability and prices of our 2010 Beef Packages.

Email us to book your package BEFORE THEY ARE GONE.

Remember, you are purchasing an interest in a live animal and there is no tax on it.

We harvest once per year, usually beginning in February thru April depending on animal weight.