22 Wagyu
Jackson, WY · fullblood
Tier 2 · Provenance-Transparent What the tiers mean
Authenticity flags
- The full-blood claim and the association registration are the ranch's own statements about its herd. They are specific and checkable, naming member numbers, but no outside body publishes a per-animal confirmation a shopper can look up.
Why it's listed
22 Wagyu is a family ranch in Jackson Hole raising 100% full-blood Wagyu and breeding stock since 2019, with pedigrees it traces directly to foundation Japanese sires and dams. It says its herd is DNA-verified and registered with the American Wagyu Association, and it supplies at least one Teton Village kitchen, which sells the beef as a daily butcher cut under the ranch name. Full-blood herds are uncommon in the United States, which is what makes a restaurant naming one worth noticing.
A full-blood herd in Jackson Hole
22 Wagyu is a family operation in Jackson Hole raising full-blood Wagyu and breeding stock since 2019. Full-blood means every animal in the pedigree traces to Japanese foundation cattle with nothing else bred in, which is the top rung of American Wagyu and genuinely uncommon: the ranch puts the national count of registered full-blood animals at roughly seven thousand.
It says its herd is DNA-verified and registered with the American Wagyu Association, and it names its member numbers rather than gesturing at the association in general. That is a more checkable claim than most producers make.
Why the name on the menu may not match
A restaurant near Teton Village sells this beef as a daily butcher cut and prints the ranch as W22 Ranch, while the ranch itself trades as 22 Wagyu. Both names point at the same herd, and each business names the other on its own site, which is how the connection was confirmed.
It is worth knowing because searching the menu spelling leads to a parked domain with nothing on it. The producer to look for is 22 Wagyu.
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