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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
If Arizona is like Cali, the answer is no.
Beef at Costco is garbage in Cali. Actually, all the beef is garbage unless you go to a butcher shop or Harris Ranch at the Fairfax Farmer's Market. A good NY Strip runs $20 a pound and even then, the quality varies.
Yet when I've visited my parents in the KC area, my mom will get cheap steaks at Costco and they're great.
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I got some burger patties from Harris Ranch and they were substantially better than any others I had gotten from the grocery stores here in Cali. I only purchased them because they were the best priced in the fat content range I wanted. I started a thread on here about it quite a while ago, wondering if anyone knew why they were so good. I did find this on their site:
Feeding Practices
Although our cattle spend approximately 80% of their lives grazing on grass, we finish them for about 120 days on a nutritional-balanced diet of corn and other feed grains, plus alfalfa hay, vitamins and minerals. One of the secrets to great beef is meticulous attention to feeding practices. Harris Ranch is one of just a few producers in the country that produces beef exclusively from cattle fed in our own feedlot, Harris Feeding Company. Since corn-fed beef is the most flavorful, tender and juicy beef available, Harris Ranch’s Central California feedlot purchases Midwestern corn by the trainload to serve as the basis for our scientifically formulated rations. We mill all of our own feeds under the guidance of a consulting animal nutritionist. As part of our specialized feeding regimen, Harris Ranch tests to ensure all ingredients used in our feed are free of pesticide residues. Furthermore, Harris Ranch has never fed any animal proteins. Many of our customers are surprised to learn that beef produced in feedlots actually has a smaller carbon footprint than meat raised exclusively on grasses.