Happy National Ag Week!
She’s starting off a little rough out here.
We are committed to a secure food supply and National security no matter the week or the weather!
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Daily grind!
Cattlemen/Cattlewomen know the drill this time of year.
Sometimes the life chooses us, sometimes we choose the life.
Either way it gets buried so deep inside you that you’ll only get out when you’re buried yourself.🥩🇺🇸
Small ranchers didn’t disappear.
They were removed.
In 1980, the U.S. had over 6 million cattle operations.
Today? Barely 700,000.
That’s not a lifestyle change.
That’s a wipeout.
The top four meatpackers went from controlling about 25% of the market to over 80%.
Thousands of local processors closed.
If you can’t get a kill slot, you don’t have a business.
Feed costs up 60–100%.
Fuel up 50%+.
Interest rates tripled.
Price paid to the rancher?
Adjusted for inflation — down.
Meanwhile, grocery prices rose 25%+ in just four years.
Ranchers didn’t get rich.
They got boxed out — of processing, pricing, and access.
That’s not the free market.
That’s consolidation.
Learn how we rebuild a clean, transparent, low-margin system that keeps ranchers in business and American beef in American grocery stores:
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