Davis Cattle Company
Cascade, ID · f1
Tier 3 · Wagyu-Forward What the tiers mean
This listing's current published materials advertise Wagyu, but the offering does not meet our full verification standard for provenance. It carries no authenticity badge; undisclosed details remain explicitly unverified.
Why it's listed
Davis Cattle Company is a long-running family ranch at Cascade, Idaho, incorporated in 1979 and still in good standing with the state. It grazes Akaushi (Red Wagyu) cattle on irrigated Long Valley pasture, running Akaushi bulls over Angus cows and raising the yearlings before they finish in Texas for HeartBrand Beef. The American Akaushi Association has recognised the family with a Securing the Legacy Award. The ranch keeps no website of its own, but its beef reaches diners through El Gaucho, whose Northwest steakhouses name it as the source of their Akaushi burger and a Boise short rib.
A 1979 ranch with no website
Davis Cattle Company is a long-running family ranch at Cascade, Idaho, incorporated in 1979 and still in good standing with the state. It grazes Akaushi cattle on irrigated pasture in Long Valley, running Akaushi bulls over Angus cows and raising the yearlings before they leave.
It has no website of its own, which is normal for a ranch of this kind and worth saying plainly. A cow-calf operation selling into a branded programme has no reason to build a shop or a story: its customer is a beef company, not a diner. The reason this one is listed here is that its name reaches diners anyway.
Where the cattle go, and where you meet them again
The yearlings finish in Texas for HeartBrand Beef, the Akaushi programme also listed in this directory, and this is one of the clearest producer-to-brand links anywhere on the site: an Idaho ranch raising cattle that finish two states away under a name a shopper can look up.
That geography is not an inefficiency. Long Valley's irrigated mountain pasture is good growing ground and poor finishing ground, since the feed grain is a long way off, while the Texas coastal plain sits next to it. Splitting an animal's life between the two is standard American practice and it is the reason a beef label almost never corresponds to a single place.
The beef also reaches diners under the ranch's own name. El Gaucho's Northwest steakhouses name Davis Cattle Company as the source of their Akaushi burger and a short rib in Boise, which is a rarer thing than it sounds: restaurants name farms in press releases and drop them from menus, and a producer printed on the menu itself is being vouched for by the kitchen every night.
Recognised by the association
The American Akaushi Association has recognised the family with a Securing the Legacy Award. That is an association's own recognition rather than a certification of the beef, so it is not a badge on this listing, but it is a peer judgement from the body that governs the breed in this country.
There is no direct-to-consumer channel here. This is a ranch to recognise on a menu or behind a brand, not a shop.
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Common questions
- Can I buy beef from Davis Cattle Company?
- No. It sells no beef directly and keeps no website. Its cattle finish in Texas for HeartBrand Beef, and its name appears on El Gaucho menus in the Northwest, which is where diners encounter it.
- Why do its cattle finish in Texas?
- Because Long Valley's irrigated mountain pasture is excellent growing ground and poor finishing ground, with feed grain far away, while the Texas coastal plain sits beside it. Splitting an animal's life between regions is standard American practice and the reason a beef label rarely corresponds to one place.