Certified Organic Meat from Maverick Ranch
High Meadows Brand Beef

Maverick Ranch Organic Meat Distributors is proud to offer fresh Certified Organically raised beef which is now available to supermarket retailers. It is the first organic beef which follows the new organic meat distributors guidelines as recently announced by the USDA.

MAVERICK RANCH High Meadows Beef is third party process certified organically raised every step of the way by Quality Assurance International. Certification inspectors document the process starting on the ranches thru to the processing plants. Each participant (rancher, feeder, and packer) submits a management plan to QAI. When that plan is approved by the QAI inspector, the periodic inspection and verification begins. Maverick Ranch meets the guidelines established by the Organic Trade Association and the proposed USDA regulations as published in the Federal Register. In production, all pastures and feed are inspected in order for the beef to be certified.

During the packing process, organically raised beef must be transported in clean trucks. Packing plants are also organically certified for pest control, sanitation, and processing.

Organically raised agriculture is a holistic system whose primary goal is to optimize the health and productivity of interdependent communities of soil life, plants, animals and people. This system of farm design and management practice created ecosystems which achieve sustainable productivity, and provide weed and pest control through a diverse mix of mutually dependent life forms, recycling plant and animal residues, crop selection and rotation, water management, tillage and cultivation. Soil fertility is maintained and enhanced by a system which optimizes soil biological activity as the means to provide a balanced nutrient supply for plant and animal life as well as to conserve soil resources. Pest and disease management is attained by mean of the encouragement of a balanced host/predator relationship, augmentation of beneficial insect populations, biological, cultural and mechanical control.

Management-intensive organic practices are carefully selected with an intent to resource and then maintain ecological harmony on the farm or ranch and their surrounding environment. In themselves, organic practices will not ensure that products are completely free of residues of agricultural chemicals and contaminants. It is accepted the pollution from the air, soil water and other sources is sometimes beyond the control of the operator.