Mesteño Draw Cattle Co.

Mesteño Draw Cattle Co. is known for producing high-quality beef from young cattle that have never left their ranch in Mountainair, NM. The business offers beef in halves, quarters, and 20-22 lb variety packs, available for pick-up in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Moriarty, and Mountainair, with shipping options to other locations. Customers often praise the beef as the best they have ever tasted.

The cattle graze on the natural grasses of the short grass prairie in a managed system designed to promote rangeland and riparian health. They are raised without hormones, antibiotics, or grain, dining exclusively on a diet of grass and forbs native to the area. The farm employs management practices that enhance rangeland health and contribute to the restoration of native grasslands. Grazed pastures remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than any other land use, maintaining vegetation year-round to hold onto topsoil, moisture, and carbon. The cattle are humanely raised in herds on open pastures and managed on horses or on foot to keep them calm and happy.

The beef is dry-aged for 14-21 days, resulting in tender, lean, and delicious meat. The farm collaborates with several conservation organizations to restore riparian areas along the creek, which runs during summer monsoons and snow melts. Raising grass-fed beef is part of the farm's broader restoration process, providing nutritional advantages and supporting ecological health.