Irish Dexter beef has always been known as the most flavorful beef available. High-end chefs prefer to start with 100% grass fed Irish Dexter beef. But what good is it to select the best flavorful beef only to discover it is as tender as shoe leather? Everyone thought that tenderness was the result of marbling, or the grass being eaten, or the care being given, or confined so that it can’t move.  All these reasons were “Wives Tales”, farmers speculating why some beef was tender and other beef, from the same farm and raised the same way, were not tender. This was exactly our experience. Selling to high-end, charcuterie restaurants, one month the beef was amazingly tender. The next month it was not, and we didn’t know why. That is all changed. Now we know.

Crest Point Farms has completed the testing of our herd. Every Crest Point Farms’ bull and every Crest Point Farms’ cow is Tenet Certified.  It turns out that tenderness is an inherited trait and can be bred into a herd by testing, identifying and selecting Tenet® animals. Fat and beef tenderness is not correlated. With traditional beef grading, the higher the fat content/marbling, the higher the quality rating. Tenet® Beef is changing the industry by removing fat from the equation. There are genetic markers that identify the total muscle tenderness of each animal tested. Tenet® represents the highest level of naturally occurring beef tenderness. Tenet® beef has superior tenderness.

This means that when we produce beef for you, our buyer, you will know that you are buying not only the most flavorful beef, but also now the most tender beef. You will LOVE the taste!