Outpost 76

Outpost 76 runs roughly four thousand head on about 1,100 acres outside Sulphur Springs in north east Texas, and describes what it did in one sentence: it set out to bring Japanese Wagyu genetics into an existing Angus programme. The result is an F1 Wagyu-Angus cross alongside a fullblood Wagyu herd, and the shop labels its steaks by which they are.

That labelling is the useful part. A ranch running two programmes can easily let the fullblood story sell the crossbred box; this one sells a T-bone marked F1 or marked Angus Prime, so the choice is made at the product rather than left to the brand.

The ranch states that around 95 percent of what it finishes grades USDA Prime or above. That is a claim about outcomes rather than intentions, and it is the sort of number most producers never publish, because it can be checked against them.

Read it for what it is worth. Prime is the top of the American scale and roughly a tenth of the national fed-cattle crop reaches it, so a programme putting nearly everything there is doing something real. It is also a floor rather than a ceiling: Prime is where the USDA scale stops measuring, so it cannot say how far past it a well-marbled Wagyu carcass went. The figure separates this producer from commodity beef; it does not rank it against another Wagyu programme.

The ranch sells through its own store and supplies its sister restaurants along with hotel and Dallas-Fort Worth kitchens, so a reader is at least as likely to meet this name on a menu as in a box. The venues currently citing it are listed on this page.

It also advertises halal-certified meats. Nothing contradicts that and it is recorded as stated, but no certifying body is named in what it publishes, and halal is not a regulated term in the United States. If that matters for your purchase, the certifier is the thing to ask for; a claim without one cannot be checked from outside.