Why Traceability Matters – Knowing Exactly Where Your Meat Comes From

When you buy meat from the supermarket, it's often difficult to know where it was raised, how it was cared for, or how many farms it has passed through before reaching your plate.

At Burgess Peaks Beef & Lamb Boxes, we believe every family deserves to know exactly where their food comes from. That's why traceability isn't just something we do at the end of the process – it starts the day every calf is born.

It starts from birth

Every calf born on our farm is individually identified with an electronic NAIT tag and its own unique animal ID. From that moment, we record its history, including:

Date of birth

Parentage and genetics

Health treatments and animal welfare records

Grazing history

Growth and performance

Movement records

Every animal has its own story, and we know it from the very beginning.

Why does that matter?

Complete traceability gives us confidence in the quality of the meat we're producing. We know exactly where every cut has come from because we've followed that animal throughout its entire life.

Unlike large supply chains where meat may come from multiple farms and be processed together, our meat remains fully traceable back to the individual animal and the farm it was raised on.

Food you can trust

Traceability is about far more than paperwork.

It means:

Knowing where your food comes from.

Confidence in how the animals were raised.

High standards of animal welfare.

Complete transparency from paddock to plate.

When we pack your order, every box can be traced back through our records, giving us complete confidence in every steak, roast, chop and pack of mince we sell.

A commitment to quality

For us, farming isn't just producing meat—it's producing food we're proud to feed our own family.

From carefully selecting our breeding genetics, to raising our cattle on Waikato pasture, through to packing your order, quality and traceability go hand in hand.

When you choose Burgess Peaks, you're not just buying meat.

You're buying food with a story, a history, and complete confidence in where it came from.