Our cows and calves graze most all year long. Walking and eating on the open range. Wouldn't you be healthier than in a dirt feedlot? We wean our calves right across the fence from their mothers and add a developer pellet, made with grain screenings, field peas, alfalfa, canola and molasses, to replace the milk. The calves finish growing on grass hay and pellets.

Raised on the same acres where they were born, eating the same grass, drinking the same water. We Do Not implant them with hormones to make them grow faster, and we Do Not feed them anything with antibiotics to keep them from getting sick. That is what All Natural means.

Yes they are. NHTC means: Non Hormone Treated Cattle. That also enables our cattle to be shipped to other countries such as Europe. Cattle implanted do not meet those restrictions. Some calves are implanted up to 3 times in their lives. Once as a calf at branding, when they are weaned off their mother, and then again when they go to a finishing feedlot.

Absolutely! Our animals remain under our care their entire lives. Spending their days with "friends and family" around, eating grass at will and exercising, plenty of fresh air and sunshine, living a low-stress natural life. We have been BQA certified for over 30 years.

BQA is short for Beef Quality Assurance. Because we have a long-standing commitment of caring for our animals and serving families with the safest, highest-quality beef possible, we have gone through this training to meet the standards set by the U.S. Beef Industry. For over 30 years we have been learning the best techniques to manage cattle to take care of them and our environment. Being BQA Certified is an important designation for T Bar J Ranch.

We Cross-breed Black Angus with Gelbvieh. Angus is a breed noted for tenderness and marbling. Gelbvieh is a breed that came from Germany. It is a versatile breed noted for muscle, longevity and it's maternal traits. We have great- grandmothers still producing wonderful calves. They are docile and calm and raise a chunk of a calf. We also benefit from "hybrid vigor" by crossbreeding, which means extra growth by the animals themselves without hormones.

These are average amounts, yours might vary one way or the other a bit.

1/8 = 50 lbs, 1/4 = 100 lbs,

1/2 = 200 lbs, whole beef = 400 lbs

We are located in South-Central Montana. West of Billings and north-east of Yellowstone Park in Stillwater County.

We have FREE shipping for our frozen meat to your home. It is shipped in coolers with dry-ice. We ship in Montana and to the surrounding states: Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota,North Dakota and Minnesota at this point. We deliver in person in our local area and on trips to South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado.

We harvest our beef in 2 seasons. June/July and then in the fall, September/November. When our animals are ready. We take deposits in November and December for the Spring herd shares.

Fall herd shares we take deposits in July and August.

Our pig shares are available in August/September. We take deposits on shares in May and June.

You bet it is. The same high quality meat that our beef is. The pork also has an organic cure for the hams steaks and bacon, no nitrates here!

We have bees on our ranch that our "bee guy" takes care of. The bees pollinate our alfalfa fields and we also have 2 pollinator plots planted. In the winter the bees go to California, in the spring they are in Washington state pollinating the fruit trees. They come here in late May and stay until the first frost, or the snow flies. Whichever comes first. We get a share of the honey, and we in turn share it with our customers, so they can share in the goodness.

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