Paladin Farm & Cattle is what happens when an Army officer retires but the standards don't. After 33 years in uniform, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) John Spivey came home to southwest Oklahoma and set about building something worth handing down: a working cattle ranch raising American Wagyu with the same discipline that ran his commands.
We're a family operation in every sense. The next generation is already working cattle and learning the trade — this ranch is built to outlast us, and that changes how you do everything. You don't cut corners on land, cattle, or customers when your name and your kids' future are on the label.
Our herd blends proven Wagyu genetics with Oklahoma-tough cattle sense. The animals are raised all-natural on pasture, finished with care, and processed locally in small batches. Every cut we sell, we can trace to a pasture and a person.
Before the ranch, there were three decades in Army green — military police commands, 38 months of combat time, and a career spent being responsible for other people's sons and daughters. Some moments stay with you: a combat patrol near Salman Pak, southwest of Baghdad, crossing paths with young girls driving their sheep down the road — and a Sprite can handed over the side. What the Army taught — plan the work, check the details, own the outcome — is exactly how this ranch runs today.
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Real Paladin photoThese days the uniform is a straw hat and the area of operations is a stretch of southwest Oklahoma pasture. The work is sunup to sundown and the standards haven't moved an inch: know every animal, check every detail, own every outcome. The next generation is in the saddle beside him — because this ranch was never about one man. It's about what gets handed down.
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Real Paladin photo
Real Paladin photo
Real Paladin photoSaturdays in Lawton, Wednesdays in OKC. We're the ones who can answer every question about the beef — because we raised it.
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