Yolo County, CA

Sustainable Finished Beef

GRASS FINISHED

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Category: Grass Finished

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Location: Yolo County, CA

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Unit Offer For Sale:

  • Quarter (~120 lb) - $2,002.00
  • Half (~240 lb) - $4,004.00
  • Whole (~580 lb) - $8,008.00
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Summary

  • Animal born and spends its first year on rangeland or irrigated pastrue, it is then moved to a feeding facilty where it is finished for 6 months on a sustainable mix.
  • Focus of this process is respectfully raise an animal that delivers and excellent eating experience - tender meat with good fat marbling.
  • Finished in a small feed lot, fed a mix of locally produced (Yolo County, CA) almond hulls, grains and seeds without antibiotics.
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Animal’s Life

  • Born spring of 2025; free ranged unitl spring 2026; moved to Dan's feeding operation where it is finished for harvest in fall 2026. Get a deposit on your quarter now!
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Your Experience

  • Know exactly how your food is raised with monthly updates. When harvest happens we keep the aproximatly 125 lbs (1 quarter) of beef in our freezer and get it to you over the next 12 months on a schedule you choose. Pay a deposit now and the balance in six monthly payments.

Produced By Quail Cache Ranch

Sustainable Finished Beef

Price range: $2,002.00 through $8,008.00

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Product Story with 100% Truth and Transparency

June 2024

Conception

Mother cows spend the year being moved to where the food and water is good...

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March 2025

Birth

This calf was conceived in the summer of 2024 and...

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July 2025

Shots, Castration and Branding

When the calf is a few months old it receives basic vaccinations to...

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April 2023-July 2025
Fall 2025

Weaning

When the calf is about 5 months old and about 500 lb,...

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November 2025 - April 2026

Winter Feed

It is too cold for pastures to grow enough to feed the steer...

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May - October 2026

Finishing

Now is when we start finishing the animal, what they eat and...

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Fall 2026
Total cost for Quarter (approx 125 lb): $1,851.70

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Know exactly how your food is raised, processed, and delivered to your table.

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Testimonials

Meet the dedicated farmers and producers who make Yolo Fill Co. possible. Each one is committed to sustainable practices and quality products.

I had stopped eating meat because I lost trust in the meat industry. Owning a quarter of a cow through Yolo Fill Co. changed everything. Knowing exactly how it was raised and by whom brought beef back into our freezer.

Sarah B.

Customer

My farm is now able to compete with the industrial food system but with Yolo Fill Co., I can connect with customers who want more transparency and traceability.

Thaddeus B

Producer

Seeing our own food go from the ranch to our freezer made the whole process feel real. The quality was excellent and the experience felt personal.

Jessica L.

Customer

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Conception

June 2024

Mother cows spend the year being moved to where the food and water is good. This is generally December to April in the hills above Capay Valley, May to October on irrigated pastrue and November in the feed lot waiting for the hills to have enough grass and water. In June a registered Angus Bull is put with the herd of cows.

Responsible Operation

Quail Cache Ranch 

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$45.89

Fill Co. OH

$50.00

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Birth

March 2025

This calf was conceved in the summer of 2024 and was birthed in the hills northwest of Winters, CA in spring of 2025

Responsible Operation

 Quail cache ranch

Economics

At this point they are so dependent of their mother they are refered to as a “pair” and the cost to keep one pair on irrigated pasture is $110 per month. There is about 1 calf per year, so the value is $110 * 12 = $1,320 to make one calf.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$45.89

Fill Co. OH

$50.00

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Shots, Castration and Branding

July 2025

When the calf is a few months old it receives basic vacinations to preserve herd health, worm medication, an ear tag, a brand and if it is male, a tight rubber band around its testicles – stopping the flow to them and casuing them to eventually fall off.

Responsible Operation

Hungry Hollow Cattle Company

Economics

These cost are included in the $110 per month to care for them.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$45.89

Fill Co. OH

$50.00

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Summer Feed

April through October 2025

During the summer the water in the hills dries up, requiring the animals to be moved. In the case of this animal they were moved to the irrigated pastrue on the same property.

Responsible Operation

Quail Cache Ranch 

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$45.89

Fill Co. OH

$50.00

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Weaning

November 2025

When the calf is about 5 months old and about 500 lb, it is seperated from its mother. The males are castrated and turn in to “feeder steers” the females “heifers” (a female who has not yet had a baby) are kept or sold as breeding stock.

Responsible Operation

Hungry Hollow Cattle Company

Economics

At this point feeder steers and heifers as subject to market value which fluxuates greatly dependent upon many factors. In the conventional system these animals are auctioned off on satalite video, loaded into trucks and agrigated in feed lots across the nation. For the benefit of your animal and your rancher, we do not do that and stick wtih the $110 per month it took to care for the cow/calf pair to this point.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$2,000.00

Fill Co. OH

$400.00

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Winter Feed

November 2025 – April 2026

It is too cold for pastrures to grow enough to feed the steer. While we wait for the grass on the hill to grow and for enough rain water to fill the streams the steer goes to a holding facility where it is fed a mix of hay, almond hulls and grains. By December the hills have enough grass and water to sustain the herd and they are moved to Smith Flat Ranch were they will stay until the grass and water dry out in the Spring of 2026

Responsible Operation

Hungry Hollow Cattle Company

Economics

At this point the cost of care of the steer is still $110 per month, but he is no longer a pair with his mother but an individual aninmal.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$2,000.00

Fill Co. OH

$400.00

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Finishing

May – October 2026

Animal is returned to be finsihed on irrigated pastrue that raises a mix of clovers and grasses.

Responsible Operation

Quail Cache Ranch 

Economics

At this point the cost of feed increases because the irrigated pasture is being supplemented with a finishing mix. Cost is $9 a day to keep an animal on irrigated pasture. We finish them for 8 months.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$2,160.00

Fill Co. OH

$432.00

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Transportation

Fall 2026

When the animals are appropriatlly finished they are loaded into a trailer and hauled to the USDA processing facility

Responsible Operation

Hungry Hollow Cattle Company

Economics

At this point feeder steers and heifers as subject to market value which fluxuates greatly dependent upon many factors. In the conventional system these animals are auctioned off on satalite video, loaded into trucks and agrigated in feed lots across the nation. For the benefit of your animal and your rancher, we do not do that and stick wtih the $110 per month it took to care for the cow/calf pair to this point.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$2,000.00

Fill Co. OH

$400.00

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Harvest

November 2026

Harvest cost. Harvest is done with a mechanical wine grape harvester. It shakes the olives from the trees, they fall onto a conver and are put into a field bin that hauls them to a truck waiting by the grove. We expect to get 4 tons per acre of fruit.

Responsible Operation

Atlus Harvesting

Economics

$400 per acre.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$400.00

Fill Co. OH

$80.00

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Cut & Wrap

Fall 2026

Yolo Fill Co. has developed a “best cut list” which focuses on the most widley used roasts and steaks, usinging about half of the yield for ground beef. There is no mixing with other animals, all the meat comes from the animal you own. With notice, we can accomodate uses of other items including: tounge, bones, intestine, heart, liver.

Responsible Operation

Western Processing

Economics

Cost is $1.40 per lb of carcase weight. We target to harvest the animal at 1,400 pounds, the carcas is weight is approximatly 60% of the on-the-hoof weight.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$1176

Fill Co. OH

$235.2

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Frozen Transport and Storage

Fall 2026

With the animal, cut, protioned, vacume sealed and frozed, Yolo Fill Co. picks up your quarter and transports it to a 0 degrees Farenheight feezer (where beef, from a saftey point of view, can be stored indefiently but after several years the quality will begin to decline).

Responsible Operation

Yolo Fill Co.

Economics

The cost to trasport and keep the animal frozen for 12 months is $660 per animal.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$660

Fill Co. OH

$400.00

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BOXES

Economics

Cost for the insulated boxes

COGS

$240

Fill Co. OH

$50.00

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Sales and Marketing

Economics

The method used to connect you to our process is not free! $800 per animal is used to complete the sales and marketing process.

COGS

800

Fill Co. OH

$50.00

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Technology

Economics

We are a marketplace that focuses on using technology to connect consumers and producers with 100% truth and transparency. Nobody is doing this and the development cost money. $800 per animal goes towards building, maintaining and improveing the platfrom.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$800

Fill Co. OH

$50.00

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Overhead

Economics

Up to and including the Cut & Wrap process, Yolo Fill Co. marks up the money given to producers by 20% to cover the overhead of running the markeplace.

COGS

$817.8

Fill Co. OH

$50.00

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Finishing

May – October 2026

Now is when we start finishing the animal, what they eat and how they are cared for this period of time determines the quality of the meat they produce. In the conventional food system this is when they are crammed into feed lots, fed GMO Corn laced with anti-biotics and kept just barey alive until they are harvested – yuck. For me, I appricate why the animal is here and it seems like a fair trade to let it live respectfully on green grass with grain until the end. No yuck factor with all the quality and taste.

Responsible Operation

Hungry Hollow Cattle Company

Economics

The cost of the finishing mix and care is $3.95 per day. They are finished for 180 days.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$711

Fill Co. OH

$142.2

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Transportation

Fall 2026

When the animals are appropriatlly finished they are loaded into a trailer and hauled to the USDA processing facility

Responsible Operation

Hungry Hollow Cattle Company

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$45.89

Fill Co. OH

$50.00

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Harvest

Fall 2026

The good and respected life of the animal comes to an end, facing the reality of why it was brought to life – to recipricate the healthy and nourishment to respectful customers.

Responsible Operation

Western Processing

Economics

Harvest cost for USDA facility, brand inspection, 10 days aging and E.coli lab test.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$202

Fill Co. OH

$40.4

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Cut & Wrap

Fall 2026

Yolo Fill Co. has developed a “best cut list” which focuses on the most widley used roasts and steaks, usinging about half of the yield for ground beef. There is no mixing with other animals, all the meat comes from the animal you own. With notice, we can accomodate uses of other items including: tounge, bones, intestine, heart, liver.

Responsible Operation

Western Processing

Economics

Cost is $1.40 per lb of carcase weight. We target to harvest the animal at 1,400 pounds, the carcas is weight is approximatly 60% of the on-the-hoof weight.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$1176

Fill Co. OH

$235.2

Go Back

Frozen Transport and Storage

Fall 2026

With the animal, cut, protioned, vacume sealed and frozed, Yolo Fill Co. picks up your quarter and transports it to a 0 degrees Farenheight feezer (where beef, from a saftey point of view, can be stored indefiently but after several years the quality will begin to decline).

Responsible Operation

Yolo Fill Co.

Economics

The cost to trasport and keep the animal frozen for 12 months is $660 per animal.

COGS per Acre (51 shares)

$660

Fill Co. OH

$50.00

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