Simply Excellent Beef Delivered to Your Door!

Committed to Healthy Food and a Healthy Environment

Our natural, delicious tasting beef is from Angus and Angus-cross steers grown “FREE-RANGE” in the open air on excellent quality pasture, with corn at finishing. 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” Angus 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
  • Reasonable priced

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News from 2003:

Cates Family Farm is “Food Alliance-Midwest” Approved!
Products with this seal have been ‘raised sustainably and are locally grown, antibiotic and hormone free, and land and water friendly’; we were the first farm in Wisconsin to earn the use of this label. Our beef is lean, delicious healthy food high in CLA, Omega 3 fatty acids, Vitamins B (complex) and E, and protein.

Cates Family Farm is listed in the nationwide best seller - The Protein Power Plan. We’re on of a couple of listings as a good source of lean, natural beef! Check out your bookstore and see if you can find us!

And 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 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 (side, mixed quarter, and half of a mixed quarter). We also offer prepared beef products: hickory-smoked summer sausage, beef sticks and jerky, and cured sliced beef. 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 Straka Meats in Plain, Wisconsin, and Village Market in Waunakee, Wisconsin. These are family owned businesses with a long tradition of quality meat processing. They are both state-inspected, licensed meat packing facilities.

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. Whenever possible, we deliver your order directly to your door - with a smile!

What Our Customers Say. . .

Cates Family Farm 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

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