Farm
Great Malus Beef
An Oregon Wagyu operation producing grass-fed beef from a pastured family-of-cattle herd, sold direct-to-eater online by the quarter and as ground-beef shares. Maintains documented animal-welfare protocols (their 'Care Standards') and operates a reservation system that books quarters a year in advance.
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What they do
Great Malus Beef sells “Grassfed beef from our family of pastured cattle” — Wagyu specifically — from Rainier in Oregon’s far-northern [[willamette-valley|Willamette Valley]]. The operation runs a reservation system that books beef quarters and ground-beef shares directly to eaters online, with 2026 reservations currently open. The site documents an explicit set of “Care Standards” for the herd — not a vague claim of welfare but a published commitment.
Why it’s listed
Wagyu in the U.S. is overwhelmingly produced under grain-finished feedlot systems, even when the animals start on pasture — the marbling profile that defines Wagyu meat is commercially associated with grain-finishing. A [[grass-fed|100% grass-fed]] Wagyu operation is therefore an unusual choice: the farm is keeping the breed but rejecting the feedlot endpoint that most Wagyu operations use to reach the commercial marbling spec. That trade-off — heritage / specialty breed without the industrial-finishing path — is [[directory|the directory]]‘s substrate-builder filter applied at the livestock layer.
The direct-online reservation model also skips the entire wholesale-to-restaurant supply chain that most Wagyu sells into, so the farm captures most of the food dollar rather than the distributor.
See also
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- Instance of: [[livestock-farm]]
- Shares approach with: [[regenerative-agriculture]]
- Member of: [[farm]]
- Contained by: [[willamette-valley]]
Sources
- OpenStreetMap:
node/13536773079 - Great Malus Beef
A listing in the [[0mn1one|0mn1.one]] [[directory]]. Filed under [[willamette-valley]] in [[directory|the directory]].
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