Meat Sommelier. Wagyu Meister
USA
Pullman
Washington
Bar R Wagyu
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Ranching for generations.
Raising Wagyu since 1990 in Eastern Washington.
Bar R Wagyu Beef
We are honored to offer our Wagyu beef direct-to-consumer!
Our registered Wagyu cattle are born, raised, and harvested in eastern Washington.
We sell a limited supply of 5-20 lb. Wagyu Beef Boxes in the Tri-Cities and Pullman, Washington areas only. We do not ship beef because we are prioritizing supplying beef locally in the Pacific Northwest. Occasionally, we offer whole and half carcasses as well.
WELCOME Welcome buyers, friends, family, and supporters to our 5th Bar R Wagyu Production Sale. We are grateful for the connections and friendships we have made over the years with people from the USA and around the world because of our shared interest in Wagyu cattle. It is an honor to be part of a breed that has truly revolutionized the high-quality beef eating experience as we know it, and we look forward to continuing to advocate for the Wagyu breed. We recognize that its influence has only seen the tip of the iceberg. We have put together an exclusive lineup of Wagyu cattle for this sale which will excite the most established Wagyu breeder, the new breeder, and also attract commercial cattle producers from other breeds to use our bulls for easy calving and producing premium F1 calves for the market place. For the past 34 years, we have raised our Wagyu cows like a commercial cattle rancher. They are range-calved with no assistance and range-raised in tough terrain on their own mothers. 85% percent of the animals in this sale were raised by their biological dams, and we believe it is important for Wagyu cows to be able to raise a live calf to weaning each year. The progeny tests for the National Wagyu Sire Summary began with the breeding of Angus cows to Wagyu bulls in 1994 by the Washington State University Animal Sciences Department. The first results on carcass data from old genetic and new genetic Wagyu sires was completed in 1997. The progress Bar R Cattle Company has made on carcass traits in our herd can be attributed to following the National Wagyu Sire Summary until its last publication in 2017. We have invested in annual evaluations of the Average Daily Gain (ADG) and Residual Feed Intake (RFI) of our young bulls and heifers through a GrowSafe system since 2010. In 2021, we had the opportunity to evaluate our entire herd each year utilizing the carcass reference population from Agri Beef (over 100,000 Wagyu carcasses) that have been individually DNA analyzed by Neogen to develop a genomic Expected Progeny Difference (EPD) for performance, carcass, and feed efficiency traits of Wagyu cattle. With the advent of the 2023 American Wagyu Association genomic enhanced carcass EPDs, we are presenting our sale animals with AWA EPDs. We acknowledge that the Agri Beef EPDs are more reliable because of their high DNA evaluated carcass numbers, but they are not transparent to the average cattlemen. In fact, Agri Beef has more carcass data than all the Wagyu Associations in the world put together and they have no producer bias in their data because they do not sell genetics – only meat. We find that the AWA EPD data does correlate well with the Agri Beef data. All the EPD or EBV programs should lead to the same outcome of allowing producers to select superior animals. The future has arrived with the advent of genomic evaluation allowing us to select young Wagyu animals at an accuracy never seen before. The genomic EPDs are equivalent to data from 10-15 progeny carcasses. This tool is a game changer for the Wagyu breed.