Now in Market · Lima, Ohio

Tonka Bison Jerky.Real jerky. Real ranch.

100% bison — no pork, no beef, no fillers like most jerky on the shelf. No added hormones, no routine antibiotics. US-raised, USDA-inspected. Made by a family that raises the bison — not a brand that bought a label.

All six flavors in one box: the Full Herd Sampler — $49.99.

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Raised by a board-certified surgeon and a fifth-generation Ohio farm family — bison, elk, red deer, Highland, Watusi, and yak on our own pasture.

CWD · Brucellosis · TB Tested Clean · Five Generations Ohio · Surgeon-Owned

▸ CWD-clean herd since inception — most recently tested February 2026 ▸ Brucellosis & Tuberculosis tested clean — most recently February 2026 ▸ Four-mascot exotic livestock portfolio ▸ Five generations of Ohio farming heritage ▸ Whiskey Hill Smokehouse co-pack — USDA-inspected ▸ Surgeon-owned, family-run ▸ CWD-clean herd since inception — most recently tested February 2026 ▸ Brucellosis & Tuberculosis tested clean — most recently February 2026 ▸ Four-mascot exotic livestock portfolio ▸ Five generations of Ohio farming heritage ▸ Whiskey Hill Smokehouse co-pack — USDA-inspected ▸ Surgeon-owned, family-run

The Tonka Bison Line

The Shelf-Stable Line

Six SKUs. 100% American bison — no pork, no beef, no fillers like most jerky on the shelf. No added hormones. No routine antibiotics — if an animal ever needs treatment for its health, it doesn't enter the meat program. US-raised, USDA-inspected, co-packed at Whiskey Hill Smokehouse in Hubbard, Oregon. Packaging through Belmark. Best way in: the Full Herd Sampler — all six flavors in one box, $49.99.

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Bison Jerky

Original · Honey Jalapeño

Bison Strips

Teriyaki · Whiskey BBQ

Bison Sticks

Original · Habanero

Full Herd Sampler

$49.99 · All six flavors

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Six SKUs, in market now · Full Herd Sampler: all six flavors, $49.99

The Ranch Behind the Jerky

A Working Ranch.
A Working Surgeon.

S&S Acres stands for Stitches and Staples — surgery on one side, ranching on the other. Weekdays, Dr. Jason Bowersock is a board-certified general surgeon in Lima, Ohio. Evenings and weekends, it’s fencelines, feed runs, and herd checks — the fifth generation of his family farming Ohio ground. From the OR to the pasture, the standard doesn’t change.

The jerky is the newest program. The herd behind it is the bigger story — and it runs under four named bulls.

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Rare Phenotype Program

Snowflake

The rare blonde-cream-white bull, ~4 years old.

Snowflake anchors our rare-phenotype breeding program within Tonka MD's bison domain. Honest framing — no purity claims. He runs in a brucellosis-negative, tuberculosis-negative herd alongside two mature white cows and four white yearling daughters of Thor, our previous white bull. The deeper story — lineage, genetics, what we do and don't claim — lives on the Snowflake page.

Phenotype

Rare BlondeCream / white coat

Herd Status

Brucellosis & TBTested negative

Sub-Anchor of

Tonka, MDBison program

Inquiries

By RequestNo public pricing

Read the Snowflake Program

Hurricane MD · The Crown

Antlered.

Elk and red stag. The growth lane.

Hurricane — our named LL-genotype breeding bull and the anchor of the elk program today. CWD-clean herd since inception, most recently tested February 2026.

Inferno — the legacy foundation sire who technically started everything. He sold in 2025, but his LM-genotype semen lives on via State Line Cryogenics, the genetic complement we cross with Hurricane to build the next generation.

Gizmo — the named red stag and the foundation of our growing red deer program within the antlered lane.

Rawhide — an Inferno son coming up through the program, the line carrying forward in real time.

The antlered program is the heart of the long-term breeding business at S&S Acres — built for serious buyers, hunting preserves, and ranches building their own trophy programs. 2025 antler measurements: Hurricane 477", Inferno 589", Rawhide 315" (age 2).

Foundation Sire

Inferno589" · LM semen via State Line

CWD Status

CleanSince inception

Brucellosis & TB

NegativeTested clean

Inquiries

By RequestNo public pricing

Read the Hurricane Program

The Co-Pack Story

Pasture-raised here.
USDA-inspected there.

Our animals are homegrown — raised on our own pasture in Lima, Ohio. The meat goes into our jerky line. Bison are processed at 3D Meats in Dalton, Ohio, then shipped to Whiskey Hill Smokehouse in Hubbard, Oregon for jerky production. Packaging runs through Belmark. All USDA-inspected.

When supplies are low we source from Dakota Pure in South Dakota — pasture-raised under the same principles. Either way it's American bison, US-raised, USDA-inspected.

Bison is the first jerky line. Elk is next, with yak and Highland beef to follow — one program at a time, each from animals raised the same way.

USDA Inspected

Ohio · Dalton + Lima

Oregon Co-Pack

The Surgeon-Rancher

From the Operating Room
Back to the Land.

Dr. Jason Bowersock is a board-certified general surgeon at Mercy Health Saint Rita's Medical Center in Lima, Ohio — and a fifth-generation farm kid who never left the land. The name says it: S&S Acres — Stitches and Staples. Surgery on one side, ranching on the other.

The family acquired this land in 2010. The ranch itself began in 2016 with the first bison, and has grown to carry a four-mascot exotic livestock portfolio — bison, elk and red deer, Highland and Watusi cattle, and yak — alongside the Tonka Bison Jerky line.

Four mascot programs, eight species on the ground, and a shelf-stable jerky line in market.

Generations Ohio

Mascot Programs

4,500+

Robotic Cases

The Full Story

Family

Five Generations.
One Working Ranch.

S&S Acres is its own ranch within a farming family. Stephanie (wife). Cooper (youngest son), Delanie (daughter), Kalob (oldest son). Jason's dad farms the traditional family piece — crops, cattle, pigs — with his brother running the day-to-day there. Jason's mom is in everything they built; she passed last year, and the place still carries her. Five generations of Ohio farming behind it all.