Catalyst

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

They thought the room was safe. They thought the microphones were off. They thought it was just the insiders talking.

Then the audio leaked.

And Idaho Governor Brad Little’s inner circle said the quiet part out loud ... in the most damning way possible.

In private they weren’t talking tough on the border. They weren’t defending Idaho values. They were calling conservative Idahoans like @oldstatemark racists” who “just hate Mexican people” for the crime of wanting actual immigration enforcement.

That’s not spin. That’s not strategy. That’s what they really believe when they think no voters are listening.

Then came the cold, honest admission: undocumented workers are 30 to 50 percent of Idaho’s agricultural workforce. Take them away and the state faces a “significant economic downturn.” Translation: the entire system isn’t broken ... it’s built on illegal labor, and they know it.

And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, they unloaded on American workers: “The domestic workforce is not reliable.”

There it is. The quiet truth they never say in public. The one Big Ag and the political class only whisper when they think they’re among friends.

This leaked tape didn’t just expose a few awkward comments. It ripped the lid off the entire racket: public border-hawk theater for the cameras, private addiction to cheap illegal labor for the donors.

The mask is gone. The quiet part is now public. And every Idaho conservative just heard exactly who Brad Little’s team really works for.
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[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

1. The Big Four created the cattle shortage they are complaining about by suppressing the price of cattle paid to ranchers to levels below the cost of production over the past two decades. Since the Big Four became entrenched in their control of the Nation’s cattle and beef markets in the late 2000s, they have used a suite of tools — including concerted plant shutdowns, beef imports from their foreign operations, and manipulation of captive cattle supplies — to depress the price of cattle while propping up the price of beef. As a result, between 2010 and 2021, the inflation-adjusted mark-up charged by meatpackers above the cost of cattle more than doubled and the three biggest meatpackers (JBS, Tyson, and Cargill) saw their average quarterly profit margins increase three-fold. Meanwhile, the average annual return on cattle feeding received by producers went from a profit of about $5 per head in the 2000s, down to a loss of about $35-40 per head in the 2010s, and down to an even greater loss of $60-70 per head in the early 2020s. In this context, sustained financial losses have driven more than 150,000 feedlots out of business over the past 20 years and eliminated the incentive for remaining producers to expand cattle output — ultimately causing the Nation’s cattle herd to shrink to approximately 85 million head, its smallest size in 75 years.

2. For example, as recent lawsuits brought by cattle producer association R-CALF as well as large corporations like McDonald’s and Sysco have alleged, from 2009 to 2014 the Big Four were paying steadily increasing prices for cattle. This was due to a natural shortage of cattle brought on by drought, which had spurred cattlemen to reduce their herds. The Big Four responded to the higher prices by closing a total of five plants in quick succession between January 2013 and September 2014, including one of Cargill’s largest plants in Plainview, Texas, which processed more than 4,500 head per day — roughly 5% of all beef production in the country. Ranchers and small feedlot owners with full-grown, fattened cattle didn’t have space or feed to wait out a dip in buying, so they were forced to accept a lower price. By November 2014, cattle prices had leveled off.

3. Before the parallel shutdowns by the Big Four, industry experts widely projected that cattle prices would remain steady in 2015 and for several years after, before experiencing a gradual decline as the drought eased and the inventory of cattle was replenished. But, according to the lawsuits, the Big Four didn’t want to wait for cattle prices to come down on their own. Emboldened by the effectiveness of their parallel shutdowns, the lawsuits allege, the Big Four colluded to make sure the period of elevated prices in cattle markets would be cut short. They came up with a system in which the heads of operations at all of the Big Four directly communicated with each other to temporarily halt cattle buying whenever cattle prices got too high. Because the Big Four controlled so much of the market, the lawsuits allege, even a temporary reduction of kills immediately depressed market prices. When those prices hit an agreed-upon level, the Big Four simultaneously resumed buying. The alleged scheme worked so well that prices for cattle across the US collapsed dramatically in 2015 and then stabilized at levels below the prior trendline.

4. This collusion, according to the lawsuits, increased “the meat margin” — the spread between the price paid by the Big Four for fed cattle (cattle fattened in feedlots and ready for slaughter) and the price they charged to wholesale customers for beef. “Even with the drastic collapse in fed cattle prices caused by [the Big Four’s] conspiracy,” the R-CALF lawsuit states, the meatpackers “continued to benefit from record beef prices,” allowing them “to post record per-head meat margins” throughout the late 2010s.

[Jason Mauck @jasonmauck1]

Eating animal’s fat… and fasting make you less fat because your body starts using it … and your own as its energy source.

Growing cover crops reduces weeds because the soil needs plants to eat.. weeds are nature’s first responders.

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Most value is creating turning wastes into value

Iran is nothing but a scapegoat for the evil to get what they want… control
They are going to blame them for something upcoming.

Failing more leads to more success.

Easy is never cheap, but cheap is never easy.

Money doesn’t buy happiness. How you live life and feel does.

Eat meat, get strong, and think

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Feed it.

[Jerod McDaniel @JerodMcDaniel]

*me watching Trump’s farmer cheerleading clips

[Jerod McDaniel @JerodMcDaniel]

They’re calling it “onlyfarms” because our government believes in whoring out producers with intent of cheap goods for consumers.

[Drake @silvopasturist]

@jasonmauck1 PS - The arc from 2013-2018 was only the end. There was a heckuva process trying to get this off the ground. For a long time we thought we were going to build a co-lab arrangement on campus, or just off, with ISU food sciences dept. Huge time investments and then govt rug pull.

[Drake @silvopasturist]

@jasonmauck1 @RealBobmills We were told corn & apples were fine but freeze green beans and be crushed. We were warned, they weren't joking. I learned the collusion goes between food corporations (the one that shanked us doesn't even sell frozen veg) and runs through USDA. They've no qualms destroying lives

[Drake @silvopasturist]

@jasonmauck1 @RealBobmills The death blow was 2018 when a tornado struck Marshalltown. Our factory was a fully enclosed building built inside a warehouse. The warehouse roof was damaged hundreds of yards away in another section. USDA closed us all of sweet corn season until that roof was fixed... pointless

[Drake @silvopasturist]

@jasonmauck1 @RealBobmills Slowly became clear that USDA were using the insider info to basically hammer us at every turn.

[Drake @silvopasturist]

@jasonmauck1 @RealBobmills Plant manager got mad we wouldn't let him run for chair of the board. The rift opened for a multinational food corporation to hire him away from us for a non-job. They caused all sorts of muck behind the scenes, including trying immediately to buy our building when the owner died

[Drake @silvopasturist]

@jasonmauck1 @RealBobmills This bristled hairs. The USDA essentially turned on us. Partners and planners from the start, suddenly every thing was wrong. Snap inspections shut down the plant for days. They'd never came on our many down days, but always shut down the line with trucks of corn on the docks.

[Drake @silvopasturist]

@jasonmauck1 @RealBobmills we built a nice customer base including grocery stores like Dahls and HyVee and had institutional customers like hospitals, nursing homes, and des moines public schools. Grocery is rough, they hide your product, but end users all raved. We expanded to asparagus and green beans.

[Drake @silvopasturist]

@jasonmauck1 @RealBobmills In 2013 I opened a flash freezer business along with 24 other farmers in Iowa, called Iowa Choice Harvest. The business plan is solid and we did a lot of work setting up a line to freeze a diversity of produce. We started with apples and sweetcorn and co-packing aronia berries.

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[Shawn Hendrix @TheShawnHendrix]

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[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

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[Catalyst @catalyst_59]

@tmonteIH

[Defund the USDA 2.0 @Dusty3080467325]

And now we start in earnest with SeedWarsSeedCo

Retweets appreciated

[Defund the USDA 2.0 @Dusty3080467325]

Update on SeedWarsSeedCo

We will indeed begin with the unraveling of BigAgSeed’s web of lies in Hybrid Seed Corn 🌽 this week

Here’s a few Highlights

1)National Security
2)Disregarded International laws over placement of GMO seed into Mexico
3) Whats really in the bag

[Catalyst @catalyst_59]

@Dusty3080467325