More than 50 years behind the mic—now honored forever.
Bob Tallman receives the call as a 2026 Vegas NFR Icon. 🏆
Featuring:
Tom Glause - PRCA CEO
Tim Keener - LVE President
Michael Mack - LVE VP of Marketing
Bob Tallman - 2026 Vegas NFR Icon
Half-baked idea popped into my head as I'm trying to get a 7 month old to sleep...
A 501(c)(3) non-profit that owns farm land.
--> prioritize below market renting to 1st gen, young, and beginning farmers/ranchers
--> maybe even discounted contract for deed sales
A lot of land gets left to charities in people's estate plans and those charities cash out via auction to the highest bidder.
What if instead, those acres were a hand-up for the next generation?
Cattle that are fed grain still spend 89% of their lives on pasture, eating grass.
The final 11% spent on grain isn't going to stop it from being the most nutritious food on the planet.
So don't fall prey to the elitism around grass-finished beef.
Hold these two thoughts in your head:
--There's been a relentless crusade to frame the food system as "broken" and in need of wholesale "replacement" using radical measures. It's urgent. Moonshots are needed.
AND
--Family farms in Europe and the US are disappearing at alarming rates
See what's wrong here? We KNOW how to produce healthy foods--meat, eggs, dairy--but farmers/ranchers have been relentlessly hit with govt regulations, phony campaigns to say their products are unhealthy and responsible for climate change, etc. These are false claims.
All this, I believe, is to make way for the new "future of food"--new fake-food products, ultra-processed foods, and other food-like substances that will profit large corporations. For instance, a recent letter signed by 150 notables, sponsored by the World Food Prize Foundation, says we need more investment in "the creation of nutrient-rich food from microorganisms and fungi."
Also, there's the issue of control of the food systems. Corporate, centralized vs. independent, autonomous.
The narrative that our "broken" food system needs replacing is just that--a narrative. Created to shift to more centralized food systems that yield more corporate profits.
We have, for millennia, known how to raise/grow healthy food. We need to make THIS more sustainable. 🐄🐏🍳
The U.S. is at the forefront of humanitarian response to the growing crisis in Lebanon, announcing nearly $157 million in assistance today. We are committed to supporting those in need and delivering essential aid to displaced civilians, refugees and the communities hosting them.
If the goal for your kids is conflict, in-fighting, and eventually never speaking to each other...
I'm convinced there's no better way than to die without ever tackling your estate plan.
Or, without communicating the plan while alive.
Entitlement & assumptions are real.
“When you eat well, there seems to be many problems.
“When you are not eating well, there is only one problem.”
- @USDA_NIFA Director Manjit Misra at #AgOutlook100.