Trinity Vandenacre @Trinitycodes Read on X 40 years ago, Only 36% of OUR US Beef market was controlled by the Big 4. Today it’s over 80%!!This caused a disaster! There were over 1.2 MILLION cattle operations in 1980, but today…. There were only about 622,000 cattle farms and ranches left in the US! Coincidence?Probably not….
Forest Service, NRCS Among Agencies Hit by Mass Firings as USDA Cuts Jobs 2/14/2025 | 4:19 PM CST By Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor Connect with Chris: @ChrisClaytonDTN Workers across several USDA agencies and offices have been fired because they were in probationary periods for their jobs. The Trump administration moved this week…
The groundwater that many Nebraskans drink is high in nitrate. Experts fear that those high nitrate levels may make Nebraska children more likely to develop certain pediatric cancers. They also believe that high nitrate poses a variety of potential health risks for adults. Photo by Ryan Soderlin for the Flatwater Free Press By Yanqi Xu…
R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America "Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer" For Immediate Release February 13, 2025 R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa View and share this week’s update on Facebook here, on X here, or view the web version here. This week’s segment is from the archive, originally released Feb….
Today, Farm Action sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice urging the departments to investigate and take action to restore competition and lower egg prices. “We share the Trump administration’s concern about the cost of living crisis and the need to deliver emergency price relief to American families,” the letter…
See video: The cattle industry is a big part of Colorado’s economy and the state’s farmers and ranchers are weighing the pros and cons caused by the threat of a trade war between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. By: Bill Folsom Posted 11:15 AM, Feb 04, 2025 COLORADO SPRINGS — The Trump administration tariffs on…
February 2025 By Jon Huang On Oct. 4, 2024, McDonalds sued the big four meat-packing corporations (Tyson, JBS, Cargill and National Beef Packing Co.) who control 80% of the meatpacking market. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit alleged that the corporations fixed prices for beef, and accused them of anticompetitive measures such as collectively…
JBS to pay $83.5 million in class action settlement Source: ©IVAN KMIT – STOCK.ADOBE.COM 02.03.2025 By Rachael Oatman WASHINGTON — R-CALF, National Farmers Union and four fed cattle producers are seeking preliminary approval of a proposed $83.5 million class action settlement with JBS. In April 2019, the producer groups filed an antitrust suit against JBS,…