Riverbend Ranch
Providing exceptionally powerful genetics in large quantities at a price that everyone can afford.
LEARN MOREOur cows have to make it in the real world. Most of our calves are raised in a commercial herd environment. Their mothers forage in the high desert. In other words, they are raised in sagebrush in Kilgore, Idaho, and in Dillon, Montana, just like our commercial cattle.
We cull deep! We keep only the very best replacement heifers and we sell only our very best bulls. We not only offer the famous Riverbend 100% satisfaction guarantee, your Riverbend bulls also come with a full insurance premium through the bull’s first breeding season.
That means if your bull dies, breaks a leg, comes up lame, or loses his libido, we will replace him immediately or you can choose to get a full credit of his purchase price in our next year’s sale. In fact, if there is anything you don’t like about your bull, we will give you full credit, less his salvage value. We don’t know of any other operation that offers anything close. It’s because we put our customer’s goals before our own. Our customer investment program has also proven to be a great success. We partner with our customers to make sure they always get top dollar for their cattle.
Operators who run a significant number of Riverbend bulls can count on us to bid on their cattle when they go to auction. Over the last ten years, we have put millions back in the pockets of our customers. Riverbend has purchased thousands of customer calves for our stocker and feeder programs. And we have been a contending bidder on many more. That gives our customers a tremendous advantage.
Quality of Animals
Over the past 27 years, we have spent millions of dollars selecting and investing in individual Angus cows that have proven to be outliers in beef flavor and tenderness. They are the foundation of our herd. We now have thousands of cattle with those very special genetics, providing us with a vastly superior product.
Quality of Processing
We own and operate our own 210,000-square-foot processing facility located right on the ranch. It is one of the most state-of-the-art processing facilities in the United States, including a 780,000-cubic-foot cooler.
Commitment to the Land
We focus on sustainable practices, from farming and ranching to processing. For example, nothing goes to waste in our processing facility! We capture the water and reuse it for irrigation. Gases from the water treatment are recycled as fuel to heat the plant. And our extensive composting operation transforms the plant’s by-product into fertilizer.
Animal Stewardship
The health and quality of life of our cattle have a significant impact on the quality of our product. Humane treatment of our cattle is an important part of providing your family with healthy, sustainable beef.
Raised With Their Mothers
Riverbend Ranch calves are born in the spring and stay with their mothers from the day they are born. They grow up romping on rangeland and spend their second year roaming free in high mountain meadows.
Never Ever Promise
We don’t use growth hormones to make our cattle grow faster. The superior genetics of our cow herd give our calves all of the advantage they need to mature naturally without growth hormones. When animals with good genetics are raised in open pastures there is no need to administer antibiotics to keep them healthy. That’s why we can make our Never Ever promise: our animals are NEVER EVER given growth hormones or antibiotics—guaranteed!
Frank and Belinda VanderSloot, Owners
2880 N 55 W
Idaho Falls, Idaho 83402
208.528.6635 (office)
[email protected]
Idaho Falls, Idaho • Dillon, Montana
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