More than 50 wagyu beef farms in Missouri are listed with the American Wagyu Association. Because Japan stopped exporting genetically pure wagyu cattle in 1997, most American farmers crossbreed the ...

Akaushi cattle at Generations Beef in Dane County, Wisconsin. High-grade Wagyu beef can cost up to two hundred dollars a pound. Wagyu refers to four native Japanese cattle breeds whose meat is most ...

Hiroki Sawai, who raises 2,200 cattle at his ranch in western Japan, received an alert on his phone one evening last year: a calf had fallen and wasn’t getting up. He called on staff to check the barn ...

Discover what makes wagyu beef special, from its Japanese origins to genetically certified American herds raised in the Upstate.