Black Jack Ranch
Wiggins, MS · mixed
Tier 1 · Certified / Registry-Verified What the tiers mean
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Authenticity flags
- The ranch raises full-blood Wagyu, F1 Wagyu and Angus, and the farm store sells Wagyu and Angus beef side by side without stating which of the two Wagyu grades a given cut came from. If you specifically want full-blood rather than an F1 cross, ask at the counter or when you place a beef reservation.
- The service the ranch calls local delivery is a weekly meet-up rather than a doorstep drop: orders are collected at an office car park in Gulfport, and the run covers only the Mississippi Gulf Coast. There is no shipping of any kind, so beef has to be picked up in person either there or at the ranch.
Why it's listed
Black Jack Ranch is a Wiggins, Mississippi operation run by Rick and Stephanie Carter since 2005, and it is unusual in doing two things well at once. Its seedstock programme is registered with both the American and Australian Wagyu Associations and is built around herd sire LMR Samauri 1749J and two world-ranked females, Boni 413M and S Yuriko 412M, with embryo and semen sales alongside. The other half is a working farm store on Oil Well Road selling ranch-raised Wagyu and Angus, sourdough and tallow soap, plus a Saturday farmers market and food truck.
A seedstock programme and a beef counter, in one place
Black Jack Ranch at Wiggins, in south Mississippi, has been run by Rick and Stephanie Carter since 2005, and it does two things that usually belong to different businesses. It runs a registered seedstock programme, selling genetics to other breeders through embryos and semen from a named herd sire and two world-ranked females, and it sells beef to people who drive out to collect it.
That combination is rarer than it sounds. Seedstock breeders generally sell cattle rather than steak, because an animal worth selling as breeding stock is worth more alive; freezer-beef producers generally buy their genetics rather than rank them internationally. Doing both means the ranch's own breeding decisions are visible in what ends up on the counter.
Registered on two continents
The programme is registered with both the American Wagyu Association and its Australian counterpart. Dual registration matters because the two bodies keep separate herd books with different rules, and an animal recorded in both has been documented twice rather than once.
Worth knowing how that was checked here, because both public registries have recently closed to outside lookups. The evidence is a listing on the American Wagyu Association's own member events calendar, naming this ranch as host of a forthcoming production sale. A breed body scheduling a member's sale is a stronger statement than any claim a ranch makes about itself, and it was the only route still open.
Three kinds of beef at one counter, which is the thing to ask about
The ranch says plainly on its own site that it raises fullblood Wagyu, F1 Wagyu and Angus. That honesty is welcome and it is also the single most important practical fact for a buyer: three products of quite different character are sold from the same place, and the difference between a fullblood side and an Angus side is not subtle.
So ask which one you are buying before you buy it. There is no criticism implied in that; a ranch that sells all three and says so is behaving better than one that sells a cross and calls it Wagyu.
Nothing ships
There is no mail order here. What the ranch describes as local delivery is a handover arranged in the Gulfport area, so this is a producer for the Mississippi coast and the counties inland of it, and no part of this listing should be read as a national source.
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