Poinsett County, Arkansas · Est. on grass

Beef raised
slow in the
dirt.

Grass-fed, grass-finished cattle moved across fresh pasture on a low-intervention rotation. No grain, no hormones, no shortcuts. Sold by the quarter, half, and whole.

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100%Grass-finished
0Grain / hormones
2–3 dyPasture moves
14 dyDry-aged
How we raise it

The cow does the work. We just move the fence.

Cattle are built to turn grass into beef. Our job is to keep them on fresh forage and out of their own way — the way the land worked before feedlots.

Rotational grazing

The herd moves to fresh paddocks every few days. Grass gets eaten once, then rested for weeks — building deeper roots, healthier soil, and more forage every season.

Grass from start to finish

No grain finishing, ever. The animals eat what grows here, which is why the beef tastes like the place it came from and carries a cleaner fat profile.

Low intervention

Minimal handling, no growth hormones, no routine antibiotics. Healthy animals on good ground don't need much from us, and we keep it that way.

The beef

Fill your freezer once. Eat well all year.

Reserve a share and we handle the rest — raising, hauling to a USDA/state-inspected processor, and dry-aging. You tell the butcher how you want it cut; we'll walk you through the cut sheet.

A deposit holds your spot. Final price is by hanging weight at pickup, and processing is paid to the butcher directly. Hanging vs. take-home weight always differs — bone and trim — so we size shares by what actually lands in your freezer.

How it works

Four steps from pasture to plate.

01

Reserve

Pick a quarter, half, or whole and put down a deposit to claim it from the next harvest.

02

We raise & finish

Your animal grows out on grass until it's ready. We schedule the processor and the date.

03

Cut sheet

You choose thickness, roast sizes, and ground ratio. New to it? We'll fill it out with you.

04

Pickup

Beef comes back dry-aged, cut, vacuum-sealed, and frozen. Pay the balance and load up.

The ranch

A family operation, run the honest way.

Rusty Tractor Ranch is a working grass operation in Poinsett County — old iron, good dirt, and cattle that spend their lives outside doing what cattle do.

We raise the beef we feed our own family, which is the only standard worth holding to. That means rotational grazing that builds the land instead of mining it, and animals handled with as little stress as we can manage.

When you buy a share, you know the ranch, the ground, and exactly how the animal was raised. That's the whole point.

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