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Sign up for the Oklahoma Beef Directory 

The Oklahoma Beef Directory is a list of Oklahoma beef farmers and ranchers who sell beef directly to consumers. This is a list targeted to OBC's followers - consumers who are looking to purchase beef easily, directly and quickly. If you meet these requirements, please sign up for the list using the form below. 

We want to share with you a project the Oklahoma Beef Council is taking on that will help you reach a wide consumer audience across the state of Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Beef Directory will live on oklabeef.org and will be promoted heavily on OBC’s social media channels to over 13,000 fans and followers. We invite you to be part of a new directory of direct beef sales. This directory will be uniquely designed to serve Oklahoma Beef Council’s online followers and other consumers who are searching online for a place to purchase beef locally. In order to meet these consumers’ needs, we have a few requirements for ranchers to be listed in our directly.   

Actively market beef online. The consumers OBC serves are very active online. We need to drive them to direct beef retailers that have a website, actively managed Facebook page, or beef shop hosted on a retail platform (i.e. shopify or square).   

Offer beef on a consistent basis. We want consumers to be able to purchase beef in a just-in-time manner (or as close as possible).   

Not disparage other types of beef production. We think it’s great to talk about how your beef is raised, but with funding from all Oklahoma’s beef farmers and ranchers, disparaging language that says one form of beef production is better than another is out.  For instance, “Our beef is raised more sustainably and humanely than beef in the grocery store because we....” would preclude entry on the directory.    

Use science-based marketing claims. The claims you make in your marketing must be backed by science and referenced by research.   

OBC has several ways to promote this new directory, helping Oklahoma consumers find you. OBC will:

  • Regularly post a link to the list on all OBC social media channels.
  • Place digital ads on Google Search targeting Oklahoma consumers who are looking to purchase local beef. 
  • Place a link to the directory prominently on oklabeef.org.
  • Place a link to the directory in our quarterly consumer newsletter.

Disclaimer:

Oklahoma Beef Council is not affiliated with any specific producer, nor does it endorse any specific product, found using this directory. Oklahoma Beef is not responsible for, nor oversees, compliance with federal or state regulations, customer experience, or any aspect of the businesses reference in this directory. This directory is simply facilitating the connection of consumers directly to farms, ranches, and butcher shops included in this listing. If you are a farmer, rancher or butcher shop that offers beef to consumers and you would like to be included or removed from this listing, please visit HERE and fill out the relevant form.

Please be aware that this local beef directory is a public webpage that your contact information will be added to. We take measures to protect your contact information while still providing your customers with a way to easily communicate with you. Therefore, when providing your email, phone number(s) and physical address we recommend ways to prevent the possibility of your contact information from being used for other purposes such as unsolicited emails, phone calls or spam.

Email addresses will not be listed publicly on the website. If an email address is your only form of contact, then we will include a link to the general contact form on the website instead. The state staff will receive those emails and then forward any emails that are directed to you. This prevents web crawlers/scrapers from obtaining your email address without your permission to send you spam, phishing or virus attempts. 

We only list the physical address if this is separate from your personal residence. If this is a personal residence, then we will only list your city.

We recommend only providing phone numbers if they are a business/mobile phone number and not a personal home phone number. Please be aware that since this page is public facing, there is a possibility that people could obtain for unsolicited calls and/or texts.

If available, please provide a link to your website and/or social media page(s) instead. That will allow you to decide what contact information to share and to update/change your information at your discretion.

Email
Your email address will not be listed publicly, this is only for communication directly from us. Please be aware that we recommend not listing email addresses directly on a public webpage since they can be crawled/scraped which can result in spam or virus attempts being sent to that email address.

Address
We only list the physical address if this is separate from your personal residence. If this is a personal residence, then we will only list your city.

*Note: we will add a checkbox asking if this is a business and not a personal residence that will opt in to this address being displayed on the webpage. Otherwise, we will just list the city as a default.

Phone
Please be aware that listing your phone number makes it available to the public. There is a possibility that it could be obtained for unsolicited calls and/or texts. We recommend only providing this if it is a business/mobile phone number and not a personal home phone number.

*Note: we will add a checkbox asking if they want to list their phone number publicly. If not checked, then the phone number is not listed.