We Know our Sources: Brandt Beef

Making the trek from Iowa to Brawley, California in the midst of the Great Depression with two roosters, a couple of apples and a $2.10 to spare, the Brandt family entered the livestock business through commercial cattle feeding under the philosophy that if you take care of animals, animals will take care of you – a belief structure that was uncommon prior to consumer concerns regarding hormones and antibiotics in the early 1990s.

Decades later, under the leadership of the second and third generation of the Brandt family, that same philosophy is upheld through their commitment to humane techniques of animal husbandry, which includes feeding their cattle a vegetarian corn-based diet without hormones.

As a member of the Where Food Comes From CARE Certified program and Heinen’s longtime beef supplier, Brandt Beef takes pride in being the “true natural,” “farm-to-fork” cattle rancher.