K arrow Ranch

K Arrow Ranch grazes its cattle across two ranches located roughly 18 miles apart. The herd spends winter months on approximately 3,000 acres of foothill pasture near Jamestown, California, then moves to more than 250 acres of certified organic irrigated pasture for the summer months. Animals are raised entirely on grass from birth through finishing, with no growth hormones or antibiotics used. When an animal reaches its ideal harvest weight of 1,300 to 1,500 pounds (live weight), a local butcher harvests on-ranch, and the carcass goes to a state-inspected processing facility where it is aged 10 to 14 days before being cut to the customer's specifications. The operation is described as practicing regenerative agriculture and is currently managed by the fourth generation of the Kistler family.