Our Story
Purple Ribbon Beef is family owned business located in Clarion, Iowa that has been in the beef industry for 4 generations. Pete and Cindy Hunter along with their daughters and son-in-law are owners. Both Pete and Cindy grew up on family farms with cattle and developed a lifelong passion for showing and raising cattle. As they raised their two daughters, Sara and Ashley, they passed their passion and love for the farm on to them. Their daughters grew up active in 4-H and FFA and showing cattle all across the nation. The girls worked hard, became very competitive and showed many state and national champions. Therefore, Purple Ribbon Beef was created to bring high quality award winning genetics directly to the customers.
Their goal is simple, produce the best beef you’ve ever had, using the highest quality standards and sustainable farming practices. All the cattle are raised and fed on their family farm, making them age and source verified. Additionally, all animals are fed corn, some of which has been raised from the farm site. None of the cattle are given hormones, however every animal does naturally produce hormones so the animals are not hormone free . Quality of care is important, therefore the cattle are not continuously fed antibiotics but if an animal is sick they are treated with antibiotics at the time, just as we go to the doctor and receive medicine when we are sick. All the meat is processed locally and dry ages for 14 days at the locker to ensure the freshest quality meat to the consumer's’ table. As a result of paying extra attention to all the details throughout the entire process from when the animal is born until it reaches the consumer’s plate, customers are saying “this is the best beef I have ever had!”
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Yesterday I made a trip over to Clarion, Iowa to check out the new frozen beef vending machine at Purple Ribbon General Store! How cool is this?!
You can purchase everything from Purple Ribbon Beef's sticks and summer sausage, to steaks, to hamburger, to roasts, 24-7 through this vending machine located at their store! What would you purchase?
Let's get to know one of our new north Iowa farmer's Purple Ribbon Beef! Based in Clarion, this family-owned farm raises corn-fed beef. They are BQA (Beef Quality Assurance) certified ensuring the highest standard of practices on the farm. They are also focused on sustainability, aiming for their family farm to be around for the next generations with numerous practices to help ensure the land and cattle are well cared for.
Their meats are available for pre-order starting tomorrow, March 4th!
https://www.prudentproduce.net/shop/beef-preorder
If you are apart of our VIP Group you already saw this great deal of a Purple Ribbon Beef Winter Bundles which many of our VIP's took advantage of. However, we have just a few left and wanted to give everyone a chance to order and have it shipped to you tomorrow!
You will receive New York Strips, Roasts, Ground Beef and Stew Meat. Certainly staples in our house.
Order now-
https://purpleribbonbeef.com/collections/gift-boxes/products/winter-bundle
Honored to be recognized by Iowa Farm Bureau. Check the article out to learn a little bit about how we got started with Purple Ribbon Beef and what has grown into Purple Ribbon General Store and so much more!
Shop in person with us -1119 Central Ave E—Clarion, Iowa
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Saturday 8-2
Shop Online with us!
https://purpleribbonbeef.com
Purple Ribbon Beef has some mouth-watering fat-popping video footage of burgers cooking with and that’s that! If anyone knows burgers, it’s the lovely folks at Purple Ribbon!
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Hey, Purple Ribbon: what do you put in your chili?
Hi happy new years to u hopefully u r having a good new years weekend ❤️
You can't beat a roast from Purple Ribbon!
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It's times like these that I'm thankful for innovative producers and organizations who put on markets outside of the normal season to satisfy their impatient customers like me. :) Visited the Easter drive-thru market and the winter market over the last 2 weekends and got some great local products:
🥖Bageutte, rolls, and bundt cakes - Sweets and Sourdough Co.
🐂 Beef sticks - Harvest Barn Marketplace and Purple Ribbon Beef
🍯 Honey - Rinehart's Family Farm
🍶 Ranch - Farmers Bootleg Salsa
🍪 Cookies - Hidden Acres Christian Center
🍞 Wheat Oat bread - Baked by Beth Ames, IA
🍄 Mushrooms - Joygrow
🍧 Yogurt - Country View Dairy
🥤 Yogurt drinks - Grazing Goat Dairy
Anyone else dying for Farmer's Market season to start? 🤩
Shop local and show your appreciation for Mom!
We've partnered with several Iowa farms and small businesses to create the ultimate gift box for Mother's Day.
In the bundle, you get:
- 2 mini cheese boards from The Chicish Chick
- 2 Iowa cheeses from Old Station Craft Meats
- Iowa beef jerky and summer sausage from Brewer Family Farms, LLC.
- Iowa beef sticks from Purple Ribbon Beef
Add on the "Wine Box" and get:
- 3 Iowa wines (choose dry or sweet) from Backcountry Winery
- a handy cork screw from Kitchen Collage of Des Moines
https://choplocal.com/gifts/mothers-day-charcuterie-box/
We had a last minute change in plans for Easter Dinner and decided to have Ribeye Steaks. We had previously purchased some from Purple Ribbon Beef and they were delicious. We wanted these for Easter and weren't sure we had enough time to get them....never fear Purple Ribbon delivered!! Visiting their store would have been my first choice but that just wasn't possible this time so I ordered with Ashley online. They arrived quickly and were packaged perfectly and safely. I would highly recommend using their online service to get the best beef around!! Can't wait for Easter Dinner!!! Thanks so much Ashley and Purple Ribbon Beef for the fantastic customer service and product you deliver!!!
