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Why Buy Local

Know Your Farmer, Know Your Beef

Buying local is not a bumper sticker. It changes what ends up on your table, who gets paid for it, and whether anybody can answer a straight question about where it came from.

Four Reasons

What You Actually Get Out Of It

Beyond the good feeling, here is what buying your beef from a neighbor gets you.

You Know Your Farmer

You can call us. You can text us. You can drive out here and look at the pasture your beef came off of. Try getting that from a package on a shelf.

Your Money Stays Here

What you spend goes to a Kentucky family farm and a Kentucky processor, not to distributors and packing conglomerates several states away.

Fewer Miles, Better Beef

Our pasture to a Kentucky processor to your freezer. Less handling, less hauling, and beef that was never sitting in a warehouse.

You Know What Is In It

No hormones, no antibiotics, no guessing. We can tell you what that animal ate because we are the ones who fed it.

Side By Side

Us Versus The Grocery Store

Not to run anybody down, just to lay out the difference honestly.

Cottrell Cattle Co.

Straight From Our Farm

Typical Grocery Store Beef

Through The Supply Chain
Where it came fromOne farm in Sonora, Kentucky. We can point at the field.
Where it came fromOften several farms and feedlots, pooled together. Usually untraceable.
How it was raisedOn our pasture, start to finish. Never in a feedlot.
How it was raisedCommonly finished in confinement feedlots.
Hormones & antibioticsNever used. Not once.
Hormones & antibioticsRoutinely used across the industry unless labeled otherwise.
Distance traveledOur pasture, a Kentucky processor, your freezer.
Distance traveledFrequently a thousand miles or more through multiple handlers.
Who you can askUs. Call or text the people who raised it.
Who you can askA customer service line, if anyone.
Where your money goesA Kentucky family farm and a Kentucky processor.
Where your money goesMostly to distributors, packers, and retail chains.
Black cattle grazing on green summer pasture at the Cottrell family farm in Sonora, Kentucky
Our Pasture, Our Promise

The Shortest Supply Chain There Is

Grocery store beef can pass through a sale barn, a feedlot, a packing plant, a distributor, and a warehouse before it ever reaches a shelf. By the time it gets to you, no one person has followed that animal the whole way. Nobody can tell you what it ate.

Our chain has three links: our pasture, a Kentucky processor, your freezer. That is it. The same family that watched that animal grow is the family handing you the boxes.

When you buy a share from us, your money stays in LaRue County and in the Kentucky town where your beef is processed. It pays for fence, for feed, for a family farm to still be here in ten years.

Meet The Family
Food Security

A Freezer Full Of Beef Is Peace Of Mind

The last few years taught a lot of families what an empty meat case feels like.

Months Of Meals, Bought Once

One share fills your freezer for the better part of a year. No more wondering what is for supper, and no more paying whatever the case price happens to be that week.

A Price You Lock In

You pay once, at a price you agreed to up front. Grocery beef prices move around a lot, yours will not.

Something To Pass On

Buying this way is how families fed themselves for generations. It is worth keeping, and it is worth teaching your kids.

Put A Kentucky Farm In Your Freezer

Reserve a quarter, half, or whole share and know exactly where your family’s beef came from.

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