Cactus Feeders

What Cactus Feeders does

Cactus Feeders is a privately held agricultural services company headquartered in Amarillo, Texas, founded in 1975. The company operates two primary business divisions: a Beef Division focused on cattle feeding operations, and a Millwright/Fabrication division operated through Cactus Varied Industries that provides industrial fabrication and millwright services. Co-founder and partner Tom Dittmer remains associated with the business, and Kevin Hazelwood serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer.

The company employs between 251 and 500 people and operates from a corporate office at 600 S Tyler Street, Suite 2800, Amarillo, with a mailing address of PO Box 3050, Amarillo, Texas 79116. The corporate website functions primarily as a recruiting gateway, directing applicants to two PrimePay-hosted application portals — one for the Beef Division and one for Cactus Varied Industries. No product, pricing, customer, distribution, or technology information is disclosed through available public sources, and no certifications, partnerships, awards, or patents are documented.

As a long-established cattle feeding operator in the Texas Panhandle — the densest U.S. cattle feeding region — Cactus Feeders operates in a commodity beef supply chain where output is typically sold to a small number of large meatpackers. The in-house Millwright/Fabrication arm suggests vertical integration intended to reduce reliance on third-party industrial service providers for feedyard maintenance and capital projects. However, no customer, contract, revenue, capacity, or financial information is publicly disclosed, and the company shows no public funding, M&A, partnership, or technology footprint in available sources.

Name

Cactus Feeders

Website

https://cactusfeeders.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1975

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Cactus Feeders is a privately held, Amarillo, Texas-based agricultural company founded in 1975 that operates a Beef Division for cattle feeding and a Millwright/Fabrication division through Cactus Varied Industries, employing 251 to 500 people.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cattle Feeding and Beef Production

NAICS

Beef Cattle Ranching and Farming (112111), Cattle Ranching and Farming (1121)

SIC

Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200), Farm Machinery & Equipment (3523)

akta.pro primary industry

Livestock Complete Feed Milling & Blending (Cattle/Swine/Poultry) (AFADAIAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Feeding & Conveyance Components (Augers, Feeders, Conveyors, Elevators) (AFAAAEAE)

Keywords

• Cattle feeding services
• Beef cattle production
• Livestock feedlot operations
• Millwright fabrication services
• Agricultural production

Headquarters

HQ city

Amarillo

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Core offering

Cactus Feeders operates cattle feeding and beef production operations primarily through its Beef Division, raising and feeding cattle for sale to beef processors and distributors. The company also operates a Millwright/Fabrication division through Cactus Varied Industries, providing fabrication and millwright services to support its operations and external agricultural customers.

Product overview

Cactus Feeders operates as a cattle feeding and agricultural services company with two primary divisions: a Beef Division and a Millwright/Fabrication division. These divisions appear to represent the company's core operational segments rather than a unified software product or platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Beef Division A division of Cactus Feeders focused on beef cattle feeding operations, raising and feeding cattle to market weight for sale to beef processors and distributors.
• Millwright/Fabrication A division operated through Cactus Varied Industries providing millwright and fabrication services, including equipment installation, maintenance, and custom metal fabrication for agricultural and industrial customers.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Harris Ranch Beef Company: Vertically integrated cattle feeding and beef processing operation in California's Central Valley. Comparable to Cactus Feeders in combining feedlot operations with downstream beef marketing and branded beef programs.
• Cattle Empire: Privately held cattle feeding operation in the Texas Panhandle. Comparable to Cactus Feeders in scale, regional focus, and customer base of packer buyers.
• ContiBeef (Continental Grain Company): Cattle feedlot division of Continental Grain operating multiple large yards in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Directly comparable as a major privately held cattle feeding business with overlapping geography and customer base.
• Friona Industries: Texas Panhandle-based cattle feeder and beef processor operating four feedlots and a packing plant. Directly comparable on cattle feeding scale, regional concentration, and integrated feedlot-to-packing model.
• Five Rivers Cattle Feeding: The largest US cattle feedlot operator with yards across Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Idaho. Directly comparable to Cactus Feeders in business model (custom and company-owned cattle feeding) and in geographic overlap in the Texas Panhandle.
• National Beef Packing Company: US beef processor that also operates or supplies captive cattle feeding capacity through Iowa Premium and adjacent yards. Comparable to Cactus Feeders as a downstream customer of fed cattle and as an integrated beef supply chain participant.

Broad incumbents

• Tyson Foods: Diversified protein producer with significant beef operations. Comparable as a major buyer of fed cattle and as a benchmark for publicly disclosed protein industry economics that contextualize private feedlot performance.
• J.R. Simplot Company: Diversified agribusiness with feedlot operations and a beef packing business in the Western US. Comparable as an integrated cattle feeding participant with feed ingredient production capabilities.
• JBS USA: Largest US beef packer and major fed-cattle buyer. Comparable as a key offtake customer and competitor for cattle supply; not a feedlot specialist but the dominant counterparty in Cactus Feeders' end market.
• Cargill: Global agribusiness with a sizable North American beef and cattle feeding footprint. Comparable as a competitor for cattle procurement, feed ingredient supply, and risk management services.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cactus_feeders
• Facebookfacebook.com/cactusfeeders
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cactus-feeders

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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