Lost Valley Beef · Jack County, Texas
Local beef for sale near Fort Worth: half, quarter or whole cow
The best beef in Texas, raised in the valley the maps forgot. Buy a half or quarter cow — or a whole one — direct from our family ranch between Perrin and Jacksboro, about an hour northwest of Fort Worth. Grass-fed, grain-finished, cut the way you want it, with ranch pickup by appointment or delivery across North Texas.
Raised on one place
Every animal we sell was born, raised and finished on our ground between Perrin and Jacksboro. No sale barn cattle, no feedlot pass-through, no mystery box from four states away.
Cut the way you eat
You fill out the cut sheet. Steak thickness, roast size, how much ground, bone-in or boneless. We walk you through it on the phone if it is your first time.
Picked up at the ranch
Come get it, or we deliver locally. Flash-frozen and vacuum-sealed, ready to go straight into the freezer.
Beef for sale by the animal
Buy a half, quarter or whole cow
We sell beef the way ranchers have always sold it — a whole animal, half of one or a quarter, processed at American Butchery in Mineral Wells and delivered to your freezer as cut, wrapped, frozen beef. We are a working ranch, not a retail meat counter, so you buy by the share and choose your own cuts.
Half a Cow
Half of one of our animals, cut to your sheet.
$2,815≈225 lbs packaged · about $12.50/lb for every cut
- ≈225 lbs of cut, wrapped, frozen beef
- Steaks, roasts, brisket and ground from the same animal
- You choose the cuts on your own cut sheet
- Flash-frozen and vacuum-sealed
- Ranch pickup or local North Texas delivery
Whole Cow
The whole animal. The best per-pound value we offer.
$5,625≈450 lbs packaged · about $12.50/lb for every cut
- ≈450 lbs of cut, wrapped, frozen beef
- Every cut the animal yields, all of it yours
- Split it with family and each of you takes a half
- Flash-frozen and vacuum-sealed
- Ranch pickup or local North Texas delivery
Quarter Cow
Quarter beef — the easiest place to start.
$1,400≈112 lbs packaged · about $12.50/lb
- ≈112 lbs of cut, wrapped, frozen beef
- A proportional mix of steaks, roasts and ground
- Fits in a cleared kitchen or small chest freezer
- Ranch pickup or local North Texas delivery
About $12.50 a pound — for everything. That is the same price for a ribeye as for the ground beef. Grocery-store grass-fed ribeye ran around $30 a pound in North Texas this summer. That is the whole argument for buying beef this way, and it is why we publish the pounds instead of just the price.
Never bought beef this way before?
It is simpler than it sounds
Most people have never bought a half a cow, and the language is genuinely confusing — hanging weight, take-home weight, cut sheets, hang time. It puts people off, and it should not.
Here is the whole thing: you call and reserve an animal. When it goes to the butcher you tell them how you want it cut. A couple of weeks later you pick up boxes of frozen, labeled beef. That is it.
We wrote plain-English guides to every part of it, because nobody around here had.
Grass-fed, grain-finished
Beef that tastes like beef
Our cattle spend their lives on grass in the Lost Valley. In the last stretch before harvest they are finished on grain, which is what puts the marbling in a ribeye and the flavor in a roast. It is the middle road between lean grass-finished beef and commodity feedlot beef, and it is what most Texans actually want on the plate.
We are not going to tell you grass-finished is wrong. We will tell you honestly what ours is and let you decide.
The Lost Valley
Lost to the maps, found by the best
For decades a 20-square-mile basin northwest of Jacksboro was missing from the official Texas maps, hidden behind a rim of rugged hills. It became a sanctuary for buffalo, and then for some of the finest cattle in the West.
This valley was home to James C. Loving, founder of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association and son of Oliver Loving. In 1874 it tested the Texas Rangers' Frontier Battalion in the Battle of Lost Valley, under Spy Knob — the same hill that still stands over our pastures.
When you sit down to a Lost Valley steak you are eating a piece of Texas history that refused to be forgotten.
Where we deliver
Ranch pickup, plus delivery around North Texas
Pickup is at the ranch in Jack County, by appointment — local beef in Jacksboro. We also run beef out to the towns around us, from Decatur and Weatherford to Fort Worth — call and we will tell you whether your town is on the route.
Talk to the ranch
Call the ranch and reserve an animal
Beef sells as the animals finish, so what is available changes through the year. One call tells you what is ready, what it costs, and when you would pick it up.
(214) 202-1855Monday–Thursday, 10am–2pm · Call or text