
FOUNDING DOUBLE K RANCH
When I was growing up, my family had a cattle ranch. It wasn’t big, just a hundred acres, but it had horses and cattle, a few pigs and chickens, barns, sheds, tractors, a monstrous barn cat, lots of mice, a field of alfalfa and another of corn, and a Chevy truck with a three-gear-shift on the column. It’s where I learned to ride horses, drive trucks, and explore. So, this ranch was paradise for me. An adventure just waiting out the back door. But this was also where our beef came from. And it was a lot of meat, all wrapped up in white paper which filled up a freezer in the garage. I grew up thinking all beef came that way, from a ranch. As I grew older, I discovered this wasn’t so. Most beef came from a grocery store, wrapped in plastic, without connection to a place or the people who raised it. And somehow that didn’t seem right.
I was devastated when the ranch was sold. I was sixteen. And a big part of my youth was gone with it. I had the memories, but memories are tough to share. I vowed that if I ever got married and had kids, I also had to have a ranch. Not for me, for my unborn future kids. I wanted them to learn what I had learned, that meat comes from a ranch, from an animal, not from a store. So how that animal is raised and cared for is important. It needs to be done right. And caring for the land is important, too. It’s all connected.
So, I decided I better get a ranch first, before anything else, so I’d be ready if and when those kids ever showed up. Which they did. Four of them. And they all learned to respect the land and the animals. And to ride horses, drive trucks and explore. And along the way, they also found out beef does not come from a market, wrapped in plastic, it comes from a ranch with a connection to the land and the people who raised it.
Jim Kouf


MEAT SHOP & DELI
Double K Ranch has always been about providing healthy and sustainably raised meats to our friends & family. As a kid growing up, we ate every meal around the dinner table, and not in front of a screen in our own rooms. Helping out in the kitchen and learning how to use knives, cook meat, and create a good meal with mom was always my passion. I just didn't think it would become my career until later in life.
After studying abroad for a semester in Italy, and falling in love with cured meats, something was missing coming back to MSU in Bozeman, all I wanted to do was something unique with food and the family ranch. Then, after working in some restaurants in Missoula, the opportunity came. I met my friend Jeremy, and we started making salami.
We had the ranch and some cows, so that was step one. The next step was getting our little meat shop under state inspection in 2019. This allowed us to process our own meat and sell it to restaurants and other wholesale accounts around the state. Having our Meat Shop Located directly on the ranch, we never have to load up the animals and haul them before their final days. They get to stay on the ranch they were raised on and are treated with the upmost respect until the end.
And slowly it grew from there, between doing farmers markets and our food truck, in 2022 we opened the third phase of the operation, the Deli. Travelling only 63 miles to get to our deli, our meats travel much less than the typical steak bought in a grocery store. Now we solely focus on providing meats to our Deli and serving the best food we can, 7 days a week.​​

Dillon Kouf
THE TEAM
Meet the people working behind the scenes at the Double K Ranch, Meat Shop, and Deli, making some of the highest quality meats in Montana. From start to finish, we put the animals well being first.

Dillon &
Tesalynn Kouf
Owners & Operators
Overseeing all of the operations involved with Double K Ranch, and making sure everything runs as smoothly as possible, from the animal operations to the products created in the Meat Shop & Deli, and everything in between.​
Jim & Lynn Kouf
Owners
Founders of the Double K Ranch, Jim and Lynn Kouf have operated the ranch since 1985. Starting with just a few cows and growing from there.

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