Raines Farm
Monroe, LA
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.
Authenticity flags
- You cannot buy from this farm directly. Its own web address no longer exists and its social page has not been updated since 2019. The beef reaches customers only through the butcher counter and the restaurants it supplies, so there is no farm shop, no online store and no shipping.
- The often repeated line that Commander's Palace's signature New York strip is Raines Farm Wagyu is hedged even by the directory that prints it, which says a diner has 'most likely' had one. That is not a confirmation from the restaurant, so treat the connection as unverified.
- The farm does not publish whether its cattle are full-blood, purebred or crossbred Wagyu, and no registry or pedigree information appears anywhere, so the grade behind the Raines Farm Wagyu name on a menu or in a butcher's case is not documented publicly.
Why it's listed
Raines Farm is a Louisiana Wagyu operation at Monroe, in the northeast of the state, run by David Raines Sr. and described as running roughly 1,500 head on pastureland stretching toward the Mississippi line. It is one of the larger Wagyu herds in the Deep South and it switched to Wagyu from conventional cattle at the suggestion of the founder's son, chef David Raines. Its beef is the house programme at The Flora Butcher in Flora, Mississippi, which names the farm in its own description, and it has also supplied restaurants in central Mississippi and New Orleans.
One of the largest Wagyu herds in the Deep South, and it sells to a butcher
Raines Farm is a Louisiana operation at Monroe, in the northeast of the state, run by David Raines Sr. and described as running roughly 1,500 head on pasture stretching toward the Mississippi line. That makes it one of the larger Wagyu herds anywhere in this region. It came to Wagyu from conventional cattle at the suggestion of the founder's son, a chef.
It is listed here as a Louisiana farm rather than a Mississippi one, which is worth stating because it is easy to place it wrongly: the shop that sells its beef most visibly is across the state line in Flora, Mississippi, and that butcher is also how this listing was confirmed. The farm's own website has been gone for years, so the evidence is the buyer naming the supplier rather than the supplier naming itself.
No breed generation, and no direct sales
Nothing published states whether the cattle are fullblood, purebred or a cross, so no breed status is recorded here. There is no direct-to-consumer channel either: the beef reaches people through the butcher counters and restaurants that buy it, and the route to it is those, not the farm.
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