Simply Excellent Grass-fed Finished Beef
Delivered to Your Door!

Committed to Healthy Food
and a Healthy Environment

Our natural, delicious tasting beef is from Angus and Jersey steers grown “free-range” in the open air on excellent quality pasture. The steers are raised without added growth hormones, and they do not receive any type of antibiotic for a minimum of nine months prior to processing. Our beef is “aged” at 34° - 36° for about two weeks prior to packaging. This aging process, common a generation ago, enhances tenderness and allows the full beef flavor to develop. Our beef is lightly marbled and without excess fat.

        • Delicious, full-flavor “aged” beef
        • Lightly marbled, but without excess fat
        • No added growth hormones or antibiotics
        • NEVER fed animal by-products or waste
        • Raised in Wisconsin, with care for our environment
        • Reasonably priced

Enjoy it to your heart's delight!
News from the Cates Family Farm:

Dick and Kim are featured on the cover of the January 2012 edition of Wisconsin Agriculturist.
You can view a pdf of the article here or view the publication online at http://farmprogress.com/wisconsin-agriculturist/ and about the middle of the page you will see Magazine Online. Click on that and it will take you to all of the issues.

The Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council recognizes and awards Cates Family Farm with the Green Masters Professional Certification. Cates Family Farm is proud to be the first farm to receive this recognition. Click this link to view our certificate.

To learn more about the benefits of raising livestock on managed pasture,
visit this link from the December 2008 Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine:
Green Pastures, Green Future

In Autumn 2006 we became the first beef farm in the USA to earn the approval of the Animal Welfare Institute.

It is with humility that we let you know that our farm and family were honored with the 1998 Wisconsin Conservation Achievement Award and the 1999 Iowa County Water Quality Leadership Award. To do good work with our natural resources has been, and continues to be, one of our principal farming goals. This recognition for conservation efforts is tremendously meaningful to us.

Statement of Support:

We pledge to donate a portion of the proceeds from our natural beef sales to support childhood cancer research, natural resource stewardship, and citizen efforts to fight hunger in Wisconsin.

About Our Beef:

We offer our beef as steaks, roasts, ground beef, stew meat, short ribs and soup bones all by the cut, or as larger packages (mixed quarter, and half of a mixed quarter). We also offer prepared beef products: summer sausage, beef sticks and jerky. These prepared products are delicious, and are made exclusively from our own natural beef with no added fat or fillers. We have our beef prepared (separately from other beef) at Black Earth Meats, Black Earth, WI. This is a family-owned federally-inspected (as of August 2008; previoiusly state-inspected) facility with a long tradition of quality meat processing.

We provide a wide range of year-around order options (and honor special requests if possible). Keep in mind that our beef is raised and finished on pasture, so selection and availability may be best in the autumn and early winter, at the end of the pasture season. This is the best time to fill your freezer with Cates Family Farm natural beef! Our beef is delivered cut, wrapped (in white freezer paper) and frozen. We deliver your order in the Spring Green and Madison areas directly to your door - with a smile! Longer-distance Wisconsin customers may request UPS shipment. You can save 5% on your order if you pick up at the farm.

How do I get to the farm?

From Milwaukee and Madison, take I-94 West to I-90 East to Hwy 18 & 151 West towards Dodgeville. At Barneveld, exit north on Hwy ID. Turn left on Hwy T and follow the signs for T approximately 13 miles. The Cates Family Farm will be on your left.

From Spring Green, take Hwy 23 South for 3.5 miles. Turn left on Hwy T. Proceed for 2.5 miles. The Cates Family Farm will be on your right.

From Dodgeville, take Hwy 23 North 14 miles. Turn right on Hwy T. Proceed for 2.5 miles. The Cates Family Farm will be on your right.

What Our Customers Say. . .

Cates Family Farm grass-fed beef is delicious; excellent flavor like I remember beef tasting when I was a kid; thanks for offering lean, tender natural beef at affordable prices; we like to know our meat is produced and processed locally, and that the land and livestock are so well cared for; we love coming out to the farm, it's one of the beautiful places; trout in the streams, bass in the ponds, turkey and deer; and cattle in the lush pastures - very beautiful; we can always look forward to a delicious meal when Cates Family Farm beef is on the grill, you've returned beef to our lunch and dinner options; we love having a freezer full of your beef heading into winter; thanks Cates Family; may we come and visit!

You can contact us at the address listed above or
phone or fax anytime between 8:00 AM and 7:00 PM Central Standard Time at (608) 588-2836

You can e-mail us at: rlcates@mhtc.net

We accept personal checks.

2012 award

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