Ragland Wagyu

Ragland Wagyu breeds at Hazel Green in Madison County, close to the Tennessee line. Its own domain no longer resolves to a site, and the last working capture of it dates to late 2024, so a reader looking for it online will most likely conclude it has gone.

It has not. The American Wagyu Association's Signature Series sale catalog for its September 2025 annual conference lists Ragland Wagyu as the consignor of a registered bull, with a registration number issued by the association itself. A third-party registry entry from a national breed body is stronger evidence than any farm website, and it is dated after the website stopped working.

The registration number carries a prefix the association uses for purebred animals rather than fullblood ones, and that distinction is the whole reason this entry is careful about the word. A fullblood Wagyu traces entirely to Japanese foundation cattle. A purebred is the result of breeding a cross back to Wagyu across several generations until it reaches a high enough percentage to register, typically 93.75 percent or above.

Purebred is a real achievement and it is rarer in American herds than fullblood marketing language suggests, because most American Wagyu is a first cross and stays there. It is simply not the same claim, and a producer who reaches it deserves to have it named accurately rather than rounded up.

Because the farm publishes nothing itself at present, there is no price list, no cut list and no way to know whether it sells beef to the public at all as opposed to selling genetics to other breeders. Consigning a bull to a national sale is a seedstock activity, and plenty of seedstock operations never sell a steak.

Treat this as a record that the herd exists and is registered, not as a shopping recommendation. If you want beef from it, the only route is to make contact directly.