Farming Grass-fed Wagyu

Our ingredients include great genetics, carefully designed systems and processes, quality feed all year round and most importantly, finely tuned specialist grass farmers. Here, you’ll get to meet some of them and learn what makes them tick, why they’ve chosen First Light and what they enjoy about working with our team.

But first, a little bit more about our animals. Back in the beginning, we started out with full blood Wagyu cattle and quickly worked out they are not well suited to a 100% grass-fed system. Today all First Light grass-fed Wagyu cattle are the progeny of full blood Wagyu bulls across one of two cow herd systems — traditional (predominantly Angus) beef cows, and New Zealand dairy (Friesian/Jersey cross — otherwise known as ‘Kiwi’) cows.

We looked all over the internet and couldn’t find any information on raising grass-fed beef cattle, so we decided to create some ourselves, and have shared it with you here.