North 40 Beef
Pender, NE · f1
Tier 1 · Certified / Registry-Verified What the tiers mean
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Why it's listed
North 40 Beef is a fifth-generation family farm in Northeast Nebraska that has focused on American Wagyu since 2010. It crosses purebred Wagyu cattle with locally sourced Angus to produce F1 beef and clearly identifies that crossbreeding program on its own site. The farm sells cuts, beef shares, and jerky directly to customers and ships across the lower 48 states. It appeared as a beef sponsor at the American Wagyu Association's 2025 conference and is carried on the association's own producer map, which the AWA states lists only its members.
Five generations in northeast Nebraska
North 40 Beef is a family farm at Pender, in northeast Nebraska, whose families have raised cattle for five generations and who narrowed the focus to a Wagyu programme in 2010. It crosses purebred Wagyu with locally sourced Angus to produce F1 beef, sells cuts, shares and jerky direct, and ships to the lower 48.
The Angus half being locally sourced is a small detail with real weight. An F1 is half its Angus parent, so where that parent comes from is half the answer to what the beef is like, and it is a question most crossbred programmes never address at all.
It explains the difference on its own website
The farm publishes a page explaining the difference between purebred and fullblood Wagyu, and identifies its own programme as a cross. That combination is worth more than it looks.
Fullblood, purebred and F1 are the three rungs of the same ladder, and a producer selling the bottom rung has an obvious commercial interest in leaving them blurred, because a shopper who cannot tell the difference will assume the best one. A farm that teaches the distinction and then tells you which rung it is on has given up that advantage deliberately. It is the single most reliable signal of good faith in this category.
Its association standing rests on two independent things: it appeared as a beef sponsor at the American Wagyu Association's 2025 conference, and it is carried on the association's producer map, which the association states lists only members. That second point is what makes the map usable as evidence at all, and it is why this listing carries the registration badge while several better-known farms in this directory do not.
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Common questions
- Is North 40's beef fullblood?
- No, and the farm says so. It is F1, a cross of purebred Wagyu with locally sourced Angus, and the farm publishes its own explanation of how purebred, fullblood and crossbred differ. Naming the rung you are on is the most reliable good-faith signal in American Wagyu.
- Does it ship?
- Yes, to the lower 48. It sells individual cuts, beef shares and jerky direct, shipped frozen and individually packaged.