Our Grass-Fed, Grass-Finished beef cooks differently than store bought beef! At Bastrop Cattle Company, we’re passionate about making it easy and approachable to buy from your local Central Texas rancher! But once you’ve got the beef at home it’s important to adjust your cooking methods to get the best results. Check out our handy tip sheet above to get started with making amazing meals ..read more

    Today we’re gonna talk about some beans! Mesquite beans to be exact. They get called all sorts of names in ranching circles: water guzzlers, trash trees, toxic plants and spiny tire monsters! (Okay, I made up that last one) Mesquite gets a bad rap as a water thief, and is said to be gulping up needed water for surrounding plants and grass. Now I’m not a horticulturist, but this has simply not been the case on the ranch. Our entire dam that holds the tanks together (cattle ponds for those who don’t know) is lined with mesquite. It doesn’t seem to drain the tanks when things get d ..read more

    Hey y’all, it’s Pati. It’s a new year and we’ve finally decided to put our old website and logo out to pasture. We’re starting with a new look and new feel but the same message: the best beef is local. We also haven’t changed anything about the way we raise cattle, or who we’re selling to, or how we’re selling it. It’s the same old us, but with a fresh new coat of paint. So don’t be scared! If you have any thoughts, share them with me. -Pati ..read more

I hear from a lot of customers who are stuck between trying to decide between a half cow or a beef quarter. At a glance it may just seem like the only difference is amount of beef received, but there’s a little more to it. Half/Whole Cow A half cow (a.k.a side of beef) is priced out by hanging weight. We take the cows to the butcher, they remove all the inedible parts (hide, hoofs, inedible organs, etc) and the remaining weight before it’s cut down is what you pay for. We then go through the cut page together and specify how every last bit of that animal is processed. This is great for folks ..read more

 When Bastrop Cattle Company uses the word “Local” we mean it! Yes, our beef is local.  You know that!  Our cattle are raised between four family ranches within a two county area of Central Texas.  But there is more to “Local” than just that. The processing of our beef is done in a small, family owned, state inspected facility in Fayette County.  The beef is handled by skilled butchers who live in the community that surrounds the facility.  The work they do, fills many local needs besides ours.  It’s a facility that supports a good, living wage for skilled w ..read more

Most of us are not familiar with the various sections of a carcass.  Nor are we aware of the different options in choices, thicknesses and types of cuts.  It can all seem overwhelming when you receive one of our cut pages and look at the long list of steaks, roasts and ribs that you can choose. Many grass fed beef operations have a set cut page.  They do the guesswork for you on selection of cuts and then present you with the end results.  I take a different approach.  In my mind this is a major purchase for a family, and you will be living with this beef for at leas ..read more

 Is it Live or is it Hanging? - Weight I mean! Many people are discovering the many advantages of buying their beef directly from the rancher.  I know because I talk with many of you about those advantages.  I also spend quite a bit of time working with many of you to craft and specify how you want your beef cut. One of the many things that comes up when someone is first looking at a large purchase of beef is ‘how is it priced out, and what is it really costing me?’ There are many ways to buy beef.  Bastrop Cattle Company makes packages and single cuts available on our reta ..read more

  We made a delicious grilled sirloin with brussel sprouts! It was heavenly.   Well, we have just hit the hottest part of summer and all I can think about is ‘when is the fall showing up?’  It’s almost unbearable to do things in the heat except refill fresh water in the troughs for the cows. I know they appreciate it though! They sleep and relax under the shade near the house, getting fresh drinks from us. We’re practically running a resort. Since there’s less possible to do outside, we’ve been hard at work indoors making some big updates, improvements and plans for BCC! Things ..read more

So the cows have gone dormant!  I don’t mean I’ve put them in cold storage (though they may like that!). but rather, they have flipped their grazing cycle.  The herd wanders up to the house around 7:30 or 8 am to drink lots of water (we run fresh well water for them constantly), then they lay down under the trees and half sleep and chew their cud.  They will shake themselves out of their self-imposed lethargy throughout the day to nibble some grass, get another big gulp of water and lay down again.  Then about 7 pm they rise in mass and start grazing in earnest.  This ..read more

Many of you are ordering from Bastrop Cattle Company for the first time, and for several it is your first taste of grass fed beef.  It definitely tastes different from the feedlot beef sold in the grocery store.  There are a number of reasons for this - and they are all good reasons! Sarah amidst the bountiful spring grass Grass is what cattle eat naturally.  It is the optimal food for their bodies and their digestive systems.  I often marvel at cows.  They eat something that the vast majority of mammals on the planet cannot.  Grass is pretty much worthless to a ..read more