At Platinum Pines Ranch we believe in supplying you and your family with the best beef possible.
Our goal is to specialize in the highest quality, all natural, pasture raised, grass fed beef.
All our cattle are raised on pasture with no pestacides. We use no hormones or steriods.
All our beef is aged 21 days and double wrapped or vacume sealed to preserve freshness and flavor.
We offer beef packages from a 30 lb sampler, to 1/4, 1/2, and whole.
See our packages below, along with more information on why to go grass fed.
1. 100% Grass FINISHED:
This is the most important! While most cattle are grass fed at some point in their lives, it is the finishing, or the fattening during the last 60 - 140 days before processing that matters. Most American beef is fed grain during this finishing time, which changes the body chemistry and tissues of the animal, reducing the levels of important nutrients like Omega 3, CLA, vitamin E, beta carotene, and others. Some beef is advertised as grass fed, but actually finished on grain. It is the finishing that determines the level of good nutrients.
2. Pastured / unconfined:
The best grass fed beef is from livestock that have lived their lives on pasture, without being finished in a confined environment. Some producers have fed hay to finishing steers or heifers, penned up in confinement, and called it grass fed.
3. Free of added hormones:
Make sure that the beef you buy is free of added hormones. Often the beef that is raised in feed lots receives growth hormones from an hormonal implant device placed in their ear. Be sure that when you buy grass fed beef it is from pastured cattle, free of any added hormones.
4. Free of antibiotics:
Antibiotics are really two separate issues: low level feed antibiotics and administered antibiotics. Often feedlot animals are fed a daily dose of low level antibiotics to ward off infectious diseases that arise in that level of confinement. Many scientists postulate that such practices create "super-bug" strains of pathogens which are resistant to our modern antibiotics. The other issue is if an animal was treated with antibiotics, at some point in its life; any remaining residue from the drugs is usually gone within a few weeks or months time. Some of our customers only care that their beef was not fed low level antibiotics; others want to know that the beef they eat was not administered antibiotics..
5. Natural & Organic are not necessarily grass fed:
The health benefits that have been heralded in the mainstream media lately are only in grass fed and finished beef. Not all natural and organically certified beef is grass fed and finished, in fact most is not. It simply means that the producer has followed certain protocols which are verified by an outside authority, and their cattle are fed grain that is ertified organic. In most cases natural and organically certified beef has been raised in confinement, fed natural or organically certified grain.
30 lb Sampler pack $170.00
1/4 Beef $4.99/lb
Whole beef $4.50/lb