The world’s largest meat packer is pumping billions into lab-grown meat while gutting independent ranchers. You think they care about nutrition? They care about control. We connect you straight to ranchers who still raise real animals on real land. 👉🏻 BeefMaps.com

What's making it harder for American family farms to survive news.mikecallicrate.com/what…

I am almost ashamed to say I have Obama care but not using it doesn’t mean anything. Went from $3000 a month to less than $1000 per month. Insanely high deductible. Insanely high! We’ve never used our insurance. Never meet deductible. Am I part of the 35% ? I bet I am.

Legit question…. Asking for friends… If a farmer named his herd boars Angus and Hereford could he legally label his pork “certified angus” or “certified Hereford”? Almost seems acceptable level of greenwashing in US meat industry of 2026? @USDAFoodSafety , your thoughts?

Wow, Chris Jones said it on the campaign trail. “What does going forward look like? A hedge fund owning 50,000 acres in Iowa with the manager setting in Dubai? “ If only we’d have learned from eggs, broilers, dairy or hogs. There will be no independents left w/o change.

Trump's beef import plan was supposed to help shoppers. Farm Bureau tracked 41 stores for 3 weeks. Ground beef fell 16 cents. Ranchers ate up to $453 a head in losses. 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com

America’s entire cattle industry depends on a market that is disappearing before our eyes: the negotiated cash cattle market. Whether you sell finished cattle, yearlings or calves, this market affects your livelihood. Yet the national negotiated cash share of cattle purchases fell from 52.1% in 2005 to just 17.8% in 2025, a decline of nearly two-thirds. Producers need competing bids and reliable information to evaluate them. A thin market puts both at risk, weakening price discovery and producers’ bargaining power throughout the cattle production chain. As USDA and the Justice Department carry out the President’s executive order calling for stronger enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act, restoring the negotiated cash market must be a priority. Success must be measured where it matters: Can producers obtain competing bids, sell cattle promptly, and evaluate offers using reliable prices? The President has called for stronger enforcement. USDA, the Justice Department, and Congress must now deliver meaningful competition for America’s independent cattle producers. Watch 📺 The Shrinking Cash Cattle Market: Why It Matters to Every Producer

The US hog market is imploding and no one is even noticing.

America's promise has never been that prosperity belongs to a few. The promise of America is that every person deserves a fair opportunity to build a good life through hard work, responsibility, and service to others. But opportunity cannot flourish when power is concentrated in the hands of monopolies, oligarchs and billionaires. Shared prosperity requires markets that actually work. For decades, rural America has generated wealth for others while too little has been invested in rural America. Rural America cannot flourish when power is concentrated in the hands of monopolies and oligarchs. Shared prosperity requires an economy that also works for working people. Markets work best when competition is real, rules are fair, and concentrated power is restrained. A market without competition isn't capitalism — it's exploitation. We fight so that the next generation inherits a country where every person has a fair opportunity to prosper — one where we acknowledge that our own prosperity is strengthened when our rural counterparts can prosper as well. Neither party in Washington has delivered it. We fight for policies and legislation that support the rights, liberties and freedoms that unlock the entrepreneurial spirit and fuel the aspirations of working Americans, so that they too can share in opportunity’s bounty. We seek to do it through open dialogue and civil discourse. That is the America we long for today, and the America that the Rural Independence Initiative exists to restore. We are the Rural Independence Initiative. A movement to lift our towns, build prosperous rural communities, save our rural schools and hospitals, and restore fair markets for the farmers who grow our food. Join Us - farmactionfund.us Donate - farmactionfund.us/donate Joe Maxwell, President

Who are these beef imports really helping? "Fast Food Nation" author Eric Schlosser shares his concerns about Trump's "mystery meat" imports news.mikecallicrate.com/fast…

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Happy Monday be free!

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On Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1uD… Tchelly Moise helped lead the first American slaughterhouse strike in nearly 40 years. He and journalist Ted Genoways explain how JBS, the world's largest meat producer, relies on vulnerable immigrant labor, and what's happened since the US government terminated Temporary Protected Status for many of the workers who keep the plant running. cc. @BeefMaps @MikeCallicrate @RCALFUSA @AmerGrassfed @GGunthorp @RepThomasMassie

Trump killed the tariff on 660 million lbs of Brazilian beef trimmings heading into your ground beef with no origin label. The day before, he met JBS co-owner Joesley Batista. The JBS that admitted bribing thousands of officials in 2017. Not trade policy. A handshake.