@@peterdorscheid5652 capitalism works when we choose to buy local and support our communities. Capitalism doesn’t work when one group gets to print the money and subsidize the labor to foreign actors. The Bolshevik’s implemented this same system that lead to the death of millions. And it started with the farmers.
City boy here, this is alarming! An industry like this and other industries in this country should be sacred and protected from this very corruption. I'm in! The list keeps growing on the threat to our country and our industries that support everything and every American. Awesome journalism! Thanks!
It's in UK too. The supermarkets probably owned by foreign investors dictate the price and actively suppress the UK market by confusing customers as to the origins of the meat, the welfare standards that foreign meat doesn't attain to and unpaying the UK farmer for a superior product.
Donald Trump presided over the "Last Days of America, "dancing like a little girl, and being an insult to adults, (the WALL never happened). The HOARDS surged in as he lied to us on the NEWS for 4 years, about bringing all those "GREAT MAGA Manufacturing J O B S Back".... Bla; bla, bla, bla... bla !
American ranchers need to pull together and buy or start their own packing plants. Not an easy endeavor but the alternative is continued corporate control of our food supply.
@@zachwalker5085 hard to do this when meat packers can use their economic advantages given to them by federal judges. See post above. The checkoff is just a small part of the takeover. Corporate federal judges are the biggest problem.
@@tomterry3758 for sure. However in this case it was brought to a local vote and shot down. They didn’t want the foreign workers and issues that might be associated with them. This was a 100% American owned feeder with several lots in the state well over 300k head
Yes and no. A packer tried to build a slaughter plant by my small town. It wasn’t promoted but they ended up building 30 minutes south which is good. It’s by a bigger town with a Home Depot. My home town would have been way smaller. But there’s a new slaughter house in central Utah
Its only game over if we GIVE UP. We know the problems, folks--its up to YOU and ME to change it. Don't give in to despair, get on your feet and fight back
Trinity, I founded and manage a veterans 501c3 org here in SW Montana, and we support Montanan veterans who are either actively producing or are entering the industry for the first time through our job training functions. We share the same concerns about the unchecked expansion of the big meat packing industry and the downward effects on local ranchers by the industry. We have decided to initiate a program that would develop a veteran operated meat packer. As you've mentioned, this is a grave problem, that also fuels other problems, both locally and domestically. We want to partner with ranchers, pro-rancher organizations, and other partners to start making a difference here. Let us know if we can help and bring our resources, along with a skilled workforce, to this frontline.
Reminds me of the trucking industry I’m in as an independent owner operator. Only difference is were being flooded with foreign drivers that undercut us and eventually put us out of business. To them their making good money but its driving the rates to the bottom.
I was a 3rd generation dairy farmer. As herd sizes grew, we maintained head count and kept milking our cows ourselves. Eventually poor market prices & Co’op’s dishing out major incentives to mega dairies forced us out. I agree, Beef is the final frontier trying to be controlled!
Check our regen beef, lamb, goat, pork, poultry like Joel Salatin, Gabe Brown, Greg Judy, Steve Kenyon, Will Harris, Ray Archuleta, Alejandro Carrillo, Jim Gerrish, Allen Williams,...
I have watched great farms in the plains disappear. I have watched the mountain Ranches disappear. I have watched many lose to the encroachment of society in our rural country. The time will come for starvation and chaos and computers will not save us.
Haha they hate us small farmers because they are the globalist adjenda who wants total control of the food then the people.small farms and small business is what made America great.BUT ITS IN ALL OF AMERICA FROM MACHINERY DEALERS TO PORK PRODUCTION AND ALL OF IT.TEDDY ROSEVELT SPLIT UP THE BIG GUYS BUT THATS BEEN A LONG TIME AGO.ENFORCE ANTITRUST LAWS AND STOP ALL LOBBYING FOR ITS NOW HE WHO HAS THE GOLD RULES
@@LifeintheWest Do you feel like the Indians did when the same government wiped them out by starving them too while you watch your replacements cross the border and nobody is stopping them the same way they didn't stop your ancestors. History is repeating itself and you need to change how you are living your part in it if you want to survive. Keep trying to be ranchers and you will fail you need to take a different path.
@@JodeeWalton-n2b Are you a user bit too? If I had all that land I’d increase it’s hunting value and market that for starters. And then I bring in a Buffalo and play the game they want being played with an independent twist.
Let's be realistic about our situation, it's slowly becoming illegal to feed our families organic, hormone, pesticide free food. We can't blame China or Russia for this.
Thanks Trinity and Bill for the updates for enlightening us of all ranching struggles in the USA. Keep up the great work you are both doing. Thanks again.
The only entity that can help many of these industries is use the power of the federal government to break up monopolies. Consumers must be educated about WHY it’s so important to protect small farms and not rely on far away countries and corporations. Thank you for this thoughtful content.
Our family buys 1/4 beefs and 1/2 hogs from local producers that are processed at local slaughter houses. It’s not hard to find local meat products. Many local slaughter houses will sell smaller beef, pork, chicken, lamb bundles if you don’t have room for large purchases. Check around it’s easy.
Human animals are NOT Carnivores regardless of your claim. Humans teeth, gut and colons are NOT designed as Carnivores either. Get educated. Humans don't even need slaughtered animals to get protein either. It's always been about blood money only.
The solution to all that is very easy; Go and find yourself a small farmer/artisan and buy your meat/produce/things from them. This way you are by passing this whole corrupt system and you will keep small farmers alive.
I live next to the UP Railroad. I watch all farmers' grain being shipped to Seattle Washington to be put on the ship to go to China. Try to watch that and stumic it. Syco is owned by China. They deliver everywhere.
First of all, thank you for the video. I learned a lot. It’s tragic that we took our hands off the wheel. The time NOW. We MUST educate ourselves and others. Take a.stand, promote and support what is ethically right.
The families that built our country and feed us all should be treated better. This was eye opening and needs to be shared with every one to save their way of life.
New Brunswick Canada's potato industry works the same! The farmer is farmed! McCain supplies the seed potatoes, fertilizers, pesticides. And are paid a set price!
Trinity, I appreciate your giving us a view from the people who live this and not just some talking heads in DC who never stepped foot on a cattle ranch! I am learning so much. Thank you
This sounds very similar to what’s happening in the trucking industry everyone is colluding and ripping off the truck drivers yet they’re the ones who own the trucks and get the least amount of every load that’s available
They do but recognize that we are a country larger than any in Europe. We not only have state rules but also national ones. That makes it very hard to push on anything unless you can get the backing of your states governmental bodies.
Look for family farms to buy from. Do a google search for freezer beef in your area. You may be surprised to find more than you expected. People need to choose deliberately in their purchases moving forward. It's not easier but is absolutely necessary for our future.
I'd like to see our government start to serve the people like they used to instead of the corporation's. From cattle ranchers and farmers to the general public we're being held hostage by these large corporations. That has to stop. Your show has helped me know how sad things have become. Thank You!! And may God Bless You and Your's
I'd like to personally thank you for this informative video. This is a serious heart to heart that America needs to hear. I'm drinking my morning coffee, on Long Island, getting ready to do some gardening. I just fed my chickens and this video came up. I
Same thing happened to the manufactured homes industry. It's largely driven by regulatory capture, enabled by regulators that are ignorant of the industry they oversee.
The US should absolutely have country of origin laws. I'm a farmer in Australia and I'm dam proud of the lamb and beef I export. Most goes to Japan, but it has a product of Australia logo on it when it does
Yikes, so depressing. Government needs to wake up. Yes, I can write my congressman, but still feel helpless I’ve been complaining about foreign countries owning our land and businesses for years.
Everyone rancher and farmer is a Conservative. This is not a problem. The problem is the very people that ranchers and farmers vote for, are the very same people creating your problems. Check the voting records of the Conservatives you vote for. You’d be quite amazed.
Old school farmers still think that the 1950-1990 Democrat is who they are voting for, it is NOT. Now Democrat is a RADICAL Socialist agenda, while Republican is more aligned with the old Democrat of 1950-1990.
That's right. During the years that GOP and Donald Trump were president you should have seen how many arrivals from Communist China flooded Southern California. What's worse they brought their illegal communist money with them, bought up all the houses and drove up the home prices. Many native southern Californians were made homeless because Trump let China in to our country.
You mean the USDA. I say end ALL meat industries. There's better means of protein than from slaughtered animals. Yet Factory Farms and CAFOs are the WORST. But small farms aren't any better when it comes to where these animals end up when slaughtered. I've seen the toxic illegal farms that are horrific at slaughtering. Lots are illegal in Florida and Texas too.
There are many many industry examples facing difficulties today we could cover and most of the cause is all tied to special interest demands, lobbyist and politicians allowing or simply ignoring monopolies or control. Want to solve this particular issue, support the local farmers / meat producers and avoid the Walmart meat markets of the world. Hard for the general public to do in todays big cities though, where the largest volume of beef is bought. How country of origin is not on the label when you buy beef is crazy. Once that is in place, I believe you'll see the vast majority of consumers choosing and supporting American raised beef products.
Good point. We are buying directly from a small farmer who raised her own cattle. Costs more but we know what goes into it that way. We are on the outer edges of a city but we do we get it direct. But she’s having problems with regulations too now. I don’t mind paying more, while we can. Knowing my meat is clean of all the crap now makes a difference.
I live in South Carolina. In this area there quite a bit of beef production on the small scale. You talked mostly of ranching and feedlot beef. I don't know of any feedlots in our area. What impacts does this have on beef that isn't taken to feedlots?
The crazy part is as an Australian I can’t afford to buy lamb here. Those exports to you pushes up our prices. It’s getting to be the same for beef. Lucky we have plenty of Roos and camels.
you're missing the biggest component of price suppression.....Futures and derivatives markets are the easiest way to suppress pricing and manipulate overall market perception
The problem with your lawsuit is that your Government is in on it. And by the time anything is decided in the maritime court if law a lot of people will starve. That is their plan. USDA should be shut down. States must take on more State & LOCAL government, and take away all control over farming from any/all Federal Government.
I am not an expert in business of any kind but it seems like what's happening in the beef industry should be preventable under laws against monopolies??
Trucking......exactly the same independents leasing their trucks and lease on to extremely large companies. The companies get all the profit the truck driver takes all the risk.
And they line up to take that shitty deal just like those ranchers lining up to sell their cattle sheep hogs to the mega packers then cry about the results… If stupidity was an industry..
Thank you for the nod to the sheep industry, it’s wild that we import 75% of our lamb and yet it’s not viable for American producers. I grew up on an alfalfa farm and sheep ranch. Still farm alfalfa but we only raise a hand full of sheep anymore.
The short term interpretation of the Packers and Stockyards Act by federal judges has caused this problem. Instead of enforcing the prohibitions of the Packers and Stockyards Act and making the market system work, federal judges have consistently ignored the prohibitions to give large meat packers competitive advantages.in the market. This has helped them concentrate the markets and allowed them to increase the spread between what they pay farmers and what the get from the other side of their business, the sale of meat. The problem rests completely with federal judges. Meat packers have been given the economic tools necessary to do this. These federal judge policies have made meat less available and allowed meat packer margins to increase. Federal judges are responsible for breaking the market for farmers, reduced meat supplies, and increased meat packer margins. Meat packers have been given economic advantages that allow this to happen. Federal judges have created this problem and all consumers are paying for it at the supermarket. I think we should take federal judge's salary and reduce it to the year they started in their ignoring of the Packers and Stockyards Act. No increase in their compensation and reduce it to the year they started playing god in the markets. And yes, it is in a lot of other industries as well. Why have a tyranny of the judiciary? We live in a democracy and we can fix this, if only we will.
So true. Most don’t have the capacity to understand what you are saying. This is going on for everything in the US. We have been too open to everything across the world. and it is causing our own death.
This all started with the big blizzard of 1886. So many cattle were lost that at that time the cattle industry was near collapse. The salvation came in the form of feed lots instead of open range. The number of Cowboys needed fell too. And as is normal big money started buying up those bankrupt ranches. Streamlining them and putting them on a profitable basis. It's been constant improvement since. And so here we are today, and big change is coming and it cant be stopped. Okay so much for big business impact, let's look at both the work force. I grew up on a beef cow farm. Didn't like the work.(Real cowboy work is hard stinky work) No one want to do the work, or there is not enough of those who do. The pay is a joke .......
How does that happen, when the USDA states the average cost is a -$24 per head per month. A - The USDA numbers are potentially incorrect. It would not be the first time in history that the USDA numbers are incorrect. Many farmers DO NOT answer USDA numbers because they believe the numbers are used by the 'day traders' to screw with the futures prices. Or ideas in that vein. B - "The average" is a bell curve, thus you have 50% getting returns that are better and 50% that are getting returns that are worse. One issue is, that farmers/ranchers will say those numbers to themselves and say 'I cant make it' because the USDA (the government told me!!!) that there is a lose in production. And then some guys repeated those numbers as though they are the truth. But in reality, farmer A and farmer B can be on the opposite side of the Bell-curve, and farmer A may be making a profit, big time because he is not suffering a death loss in his or her cattle. Farmer B may have had to call the dead-cow truck for a steer that died. On a 200 head operation, the one or two steers that died make a huge impact. In a 250000 head operation the loss of 1 or 2 is much less. The key answer is; does the 200 head operator KNOW the costs as well as the 250,000 head operator? Why? Because when the farmer walks into the lenders office for the annual review, the lender knows the UDSA numbers. The farmer needs to know and prove his or her numbers are better than the average. C - Yes the large operators likely have contracts with Walmart and other large chains. Their plants are processing huge numbers of cattle. Thus they can afford to get every small scrap of meat off per animal, even to the point of the slime that is taken off with a chemical process, and sold as the cheap meat and processed meat. Walmart allows sellers into the store, but the last I checked, the farmer is carrying that meat as his inventory and not paid until it sells off the shelf. Most farmers can not carry that risk, because if that meat does not sell by the expiration date, the farmer eats the cost. A larger supplier will have that cost calculated. D - the average cost is xxxx. This video was from 4 months ago or about April of 2024. The corn price was 4.26 today corn is at 3.70. Pricing the main ingredient is key to knowing your costs. Or can you use by products from ethanol plants or sweetcorn production? E Farmer A and farmer B send the steer to market. One weights 1150 and gets $1.79 per lbs. The other is 1450 and gets $1.94 (actual sales from the action today). Farmer with the 1150 lbs steer yields at 60% (killed weight vs live weight) The 1450 lbs steer yields 65%. This is part of knowing your numbers. The buyers can tell the likely yield with a quick glance at the animals. Try to sell beef privately and you will either learn the "numbers and yield" or you will go broke. Yield is one of those numbers that the smaller farmers need to know. So making a generalized statement that the USDA said the cost is xxxxx is bullcrap. Are there challenges in the industry? Yes and most of them are; as my mother said, when you are pointing fingers, there are three pointing back at you. Make sure that the 3 pointing back at you are not loaded. Know your numbers in Loss, do everything to avoid a loss. That is why farmers have to work 24 hours a day during calving season. Then keep them healthy. Know your feed costs; are there ways you can reduce those costs? Can you be creative and add in byproduct feeds? Know your yield number, and if you do not know that one, go work at the local gas station, you will make more money. Stop listening to what the average cost is. Think of average in this terms. The average person uses 50% of their brain. That means one half of the people use less than 50% and one half of the people use more than 50%. Be in the group that uses more than 50% of your brain. Stop being a whiner and be the solution.
The word fascist was coined by moussolini. When asked what is fascism, he said " fascism is the corporate state, you may as well call it corporatism". They killed 500,000 of is in the last war, even though we won. Super rich people are not our friends.
Are your videos on all the different social media sites?? If not the should be!! I try to repost to various sites but I am only one person so hopefully a lot of people are doing the same!!
Too many uninformed or just simply don’t care. There was one of the largest feeders in the us, recently who has been trying to break away from the packers and create their own. Locals fought against it because of various reasons. Semi traffic, immigrant workers and the possibility of higher crime rates. Would of been nice to see something American
I can't blame my entire decision on this, but three of the packers you named were my industrial customers. I didnt even see close to the worst, but once I learned more about JBS I just couldn't do the job anymore. I walked away with no backup at the time.
My father was a lettuce producer, he used to bitch at all the foreign countries bribing politicians & buying into other companies; he was closer to other farmers and ranchers, and they ALL used to say THEY KNEW THIS WAS COMING - WAY BACK IN THE 70'S & 80'S!!!!
Americans live under a consumer-derived for-profit model financial system. That is how our current climate of mega-corporation control of every consumer production and distribution system came to be. Thus, this disheartening Information is not surprising, and it is an indication of the end of an era. Clearly, the American government is now run as a corporation. Government agency employees as well as Congress now work for the profit benefit of powerful moneyed interests (the actual shareholders of the country/corporation). Thus, the government is not beholden to the general population's needs or desires, only the edicts of the actual shareholders (those that contribute political contributions and lobby). In actuality, our government can not function for both polar opposite segments of society, so we need to pick one model or the other and prosper or suffer as a result of our choices at the grocery and the ballot box.
Political science data suggests that,in fact, businesses have in general, garner even greater profits under Democratic presidential leadership. I am an independent. I have no dog in that fight. But Republicans have spread a myth that their policies are more business friendly when in fact their friendliness is to the mega-wealthy and not to family ranchers, farmers and middle class voters. Bill Clinton was far more corporate compatible than Richard Nixon for example. Clinton canceled Glass-Stegal and established NAFTA.
American's need to stand united. I'm a meat eater & regardless, we need American farms to be American owned, operated & meat costs will be what they B. Let's keep our food supply American owned & operated!
I raised pork and chickens and as a small farmer i could not sell my animals, I was harrased by the "livestock inspectors", i finally gave away all of my animals.
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It’s not just beef. It’s every industry imaginable. They have outsourced our means of production completely. We are consumers, not creators.
Very true.
It's capitalism, nothing more
At some point, it becomes a national security issue, when foreign entities OWN OUR FOOD SOURCES.
@@peterdorscheid5652 capitalism works when we choose to buy local and support our communities. Capitalism doesn’t work when one group gets to print the money and subsidize the labor to foreign actors. The Bolshevik’s implemented this same system that lead to the death of millions. And it started with the farmers.
@@peterdorscheid5652No it’s not
I worked at that chinese owned pork plant. There is also very few Americans that work there. They are brining in 3rd world workers by the bus loads.
Are you referring to Smithfield in North Carolina? If so it's NOT bus loads of workers from 3rd Worlds. There are mostly ALL Americans. Stop lying.
City boy here, this is alarming! An industry like this and other industries in this country should be sacred and protected from this very corruption. I'm in! The list keeps growing on the threat to our country and our industries that support everything and every American. Awesome journalism! Thanks!
It's in UK too. The supermarkets probably owned by foreign investors dictate the price and actively suppress the UK market by confusing customers as to the origins of the meat, the welfare standards that foreign meat doesn't attain to and unpaying the UK farmer for a superior product.
Donald Trump presided over the "Last Days of America, "dancing like a little girl, and being an insult to adults, (the WALL never happened). The HOARDS surged in as he lied to us on the NEWS for 4 years, about bringing all those "GREAT MAGA Manufacturing J O B S Back".... Bla; bla, bla, bla... bla !
American ranchers need to pull together and buy or start their own packing plants. Not an easy endeavor but the alternative is continued corporate control of our food supply.
It’s been tried. There was one major feeder who tried to do just that recently and locals threw a tantrum and it wasn’t approved
@@zachwalker5085 hard to do this when meat packers can use their economic advantages given to them by federal judges. See post above. The checkoff is just a small part of the takeover. Corporate federal judges are the biggest problem.
@@tomterry3758 for sure. However in this case it was brought to a local vote and shot down. They didn’t want the foreign workers and issues that might be associated with them. This was a 100% American owned feeder with several lots in the state well over 300k head
Yes and no. A packer tried to build a slaughter plant by my small town. It wasn’t promoted but they ended up building 30 minutes south which is good. It’s by a bigger town with a Home Depot. My home town would have been way smaller. But there’s a new slaughter house in central Utah
They have to have buyers. Retailers and big conglomerates that buy for the lowest price, which can only be achieved by industrial scale.
When all ranches and farmers band together and tell the system to pound sand.
Its only game over if we GIVE UP. We know the problems, folks--its up to YOU and ME to change it. Don't give in to despair, get on your feet and fight back
Trinity, I founded and manage a veterans 501c3 org here in SW Montana, and we support Montanan veterans who are either actively producing or are entering the industry for the first time through our job training functions. We share the same concerns about the unchecked expansion of the big meat packing industry and the downward effects on local ranchers by the industry. We have decided to initiate a program that would develop a veteran operated meat packer. As you've mentioned, this is a grave problem, that also fuels other problems, both locally and domestically. We want to partner with ranchers, pro-rancher organizations, and other partners to start making a difference here. Let us know if we can help and bring our resources, along with a skilled workforce, to this frontline.
What is the name of your organization?
Reminds me of the trucking industry I’m in as an independent owner operator. Only difference is were being flooded with foreign drivers that undercut us and eventually put us out of business. To them their making good money but its driving the rates to the bottom.
I was a 3rd generation dairy farmer. As herd sizes grew, we maintained head count and kept milking our cows ourselves. Eventually poor market prices & Co’op’s dishing out major incentives to mega dairies forced us out. I agree, Beef is the final frontier trying to be controlled!
Check our regen beef, lamb, goat, pork, poultry like Joel Salatin, Gabe Brown, Greg Judy, Steve Kenyon, Will Harris, Ray Archuleta, Alejandro Carrillo, Jim Gerrish, Allen Williams,...
Out, not "our" for second word. Sorry, i did not catch typo...
@@Marilou-g5t Great info! Ty.
We the people . That means we have the control
I have watched great farms in the plains disappear. I have watched the mountain Ranches disappear. I have watched many lose to the encroachment of society in our rural country. The time will come for starvation and chaos and computers will not save us.
If the internet gets destroyed we will be fine again.. back to basics
How can this continue?
FARMERS & RANCHERS FIRST 🇺🇸
It’s pretty scary to learn this stuff. That’s for sure.
Haha they hate us small farmers because they are the globalist adjenda who wants total control of the food then the people.small farms and small business is what made America great.BUT ITS IN ALL OF AMERICA FROM MACHINERY DEALERS TO PORK PRODUCTION AND ALL OF IT.TEDDY ROSEVELT SPLIT UP THE BIG GUYS BUT THATS BEEN A LONG TIME AGO.ENFORCE ANTITRUST LAWS AND STOP ALL LOBBYING FOR ITS NOW HE WHO HAS THE GOLD RULES
@@LifeintheWest Do you feel like the Indians did when the same government wiped them out by starving them too while you watch your replacements cross the border and nobody is stopping them the same way they didn't stop your ancestors. History is repeating itself and you need to change how you are living your part in it if you want to survive. Keep trying to be ranchers and you will fail you need to take a different path.
@@User-yy6xtOkay user bot, what are you suggesting?
@@JodeeWalton-n2b Are you a user bit too? If I had all that land I’d increase it’s hunting value and market that for starters. And then I bring in a Buffalo and play the game they want being played with an independent twist.
Let's be realistic about our situation, it's slowly becoming illegal to feed our families organic, hormone, pesticide free food. We can't blame China or Russia for this.
Thanks Trinity and Bill for the updates for enlightening us of all ranching struggles in the USA. Keep up the great work you are both doing. Thanks again.
The only entity that can help many of these industries is use the power of the federal government to break up monopolies. Consumers must be educated about WHY it’s so important to protect small farms and not rely on far away countries and corporations. Thank you for this thoughtful content.
The government did this you id I o t
Our family buys 1/4 beefs and 1/2 hogs from local producers that are processed at local slaughter houses. It’s not hard to find local meat products. Many local slaughter houses will sell smaller beef, pork, chicken, lamb bundles if you don’t have room for large purchases. Check around it’s easy.
As a Carnivore myself, I really appreciate you posting this VERY important information! 👍
Human animals are NOT Carnivores regardless of your claim.
Humans teeth, gut and colons are NOT designed as Carnivores either.
Get educated. Humans don't even need slaughtered animals to get protein either. It's always been about blood money only.
The solution to all that is very easy; Go and find yourself a small farmer/artisan and buy your meat/produce/things from them. This way you are by passing this whole corrupt system and you will keep small farmers alive.
Many many people do this in heartland Missouri. o one gives a fook about the laws.
The solution is easy... But how the hell do we get people to wake up and realize that there's even a problem to solve... 🤷
@@JWoodcock Amen brother!
@@davehughesfarm7983
Am trying to get there, and be one of those with you, just won't be able to, for 5 more years....
This will work and always has but then people get greedy n all goes to shit
I live next to the UP Railroad. I watch all farmers' grain being shipped to Seattle Washington to be put on the ship to go to China. Try to watch that and stumic it. Syco is owned by China. They deliver everywhere.
Sysco?
@@kathleenredick275 No it is not.
Thank you for this info! It is alarming!! Grow as much of your own food as you are able!!!
Convince the consumers to stop buying foreign and to pay more for local. Easier said than done, but that's the path forward
First of all, thank you for the video. I learned a lot. It’s tragic that we took our hands off the wheel. The time NOW. We MUST educate ourselves and others. Take a.stand, promote and support what is ethically right.
The families that built our country and feed us all should be treated better. This was eye opening and needs to be shared with every one to save their way of life.
New Brunswick Canada's potato industry works the same! The farmer is farmed! McCain supplies the seed potatoes, fertilizers, pesticides. And are paid a set price!
This gentleman is a great analyst and a Proud American. Well said and broke it down in-depth analysis.
Bravo guys.
God bless America.
Here in New Zealand farmers are being regulated of their land! ( by Design)
Trinity, I appreciate your giving us a view from the people who live this and not just some talking heads in DC who never stepped foot on a cattle ranch! I am learning so much. Thank you
This sounds very similar to what’s happening in the trucking industry everyone is colluding and ripping off the truck drivers yet they’re the ones who own the trucks and get the least amount of every load that’s available
Farmers and ranchers in Europe protested and fought,Why is that not happening in the United States
They do but recognize that we are a country larger than any in Europe. We not only have state rules but also national ones. That makes it very hard to push on anything unless you can get the backing of your states governmental bodies.
Buying from the grocery stores feeds this machine. Where can we buy beef to avoid supporting this monopoly?
The grocery now is UNreal.. i hate it n buy very minimal
Look for family farms to buy from. Do a google search for freezer beef in your area. You may be surprised to find more than you expected. People need to choose deliberately in their purchases moving forward. It's not easier but is absolutely necessary for our future.
Find a farmers market in your area. Often there is someone selling meat. If not, ask people. Someone will know.
I'd like to see our government start to serve the people like they used to instead of the corporation's. From cattle ranchers and farmers to the general public we're being held hostage by these large corporations. That has to stop. Your show has helped me know how sad things have become. Thank You!! And may God Bless You and Your's
Live Off Gid, where all meat is "Pasture Fed"
Absolutely love your channel, nothing but crazy facts, this is ridiculous, no other country shutoff be able to buy cattle or land in the U.S.
If every producer would refuse to use these electronic tag that would put an end to it but every one has to stick together
I'd like to personally thank you for this informative video. This is a serious heart to heart that America needs to hear. I'm drinking my morning coffee, on Long Island, getting ready to do some gardening. I just fed my chickens and this video came up. I
Same thing happened to the manufactured homes industry. It's largely driven by regulatory capture, enabled by regulators that are ignorant of the industry they oversee.
The big money has bought the government to create regulations in their interest.
Traitors working for rich people against us
The US should absolutely have country of origin laws. I'm a farmer in Australia and I'm dam proud of the lamb and beef I export. Most goes to Japan, but it has a product of Australia logo on it when it does
Yikes, so depressing. Government needs to wake up. Yes, I can write my congressman, but still feel helpless I’ve been complaining about foreign countries owning our land and businesses for years.
❤great content!!❤
This is very scary and everyone in America needs to know this.
Everyone rancher and farmer is a Conservative. This is not a problem. The problem is the very people that ranchers and farmers vote for, are the very same people creating your problems. Check the voting records of the Conservatives you vote for. You’d be quite amazed.
Old school farmers still think that the 1950-1990 Democrat is who they are voting for, it is NOT. Now Democrat is a RADICAL Socialist agenda, while Republican is more aligned with the old Democrat of 1950-1990.
Neo-bolsheviks especially on the left..
That's right. During the years that GOP and Donald Trump were president you should have seen how many arrivals from Communist China flooded Southern California. What's worse they brought their illegal communist money with them, bought up all the houses and drove up the home prices. Many native southern Californians were made homeless because Trump let China in to our country.
Like what?
Bad Government is what it all comes down to. FDA & USDA and all these high prices 😂😡
👆 Exactly.
Nice guys finish last.
To nice to call a spade a spade. You can't even recognize the enemy.
Need to get direct to consumer. Get that value that is taken by the packers.
End the FDA
You mean the USDA. I say end ALL meat industries. There's better means of protein than from slaughtered animals. Yet Factory Farms and CAFOs are the WORST. But small farms aren't any better when it comes to where these animals end up when slaughtered.
I've seen the toxic illegal farms that are horrific at slaughtering. Lots are illegal in Florida and Texas too.
What happened to anti-monopoly laws?
In addition to country of origin labels I want to know what my food has been vaccinated or injected with.
Buy from a farmer direct and you can ask.
We have sold our country out for the love of money.
Or perhaps stupidity.
the poultry company lets the farmer own the chicken litter ! and leaves him responsible for all of the disposal problems and cost
There are many many industry examples facing difficulties today we could cover and most of the cause is all tied to special interest demands, lobbyist and politicians allowing or simply ignoring monopolies or control.
Want to solve this particular issue, support the local farmers / meat producers and avoid the Walmart meat markets of the world. Hard for the general public to do in todays big cities though, where the largest volume of beef is bought.
How country of origin is not on the label when you buy beef is crazy. Once that is in place, I believe you'll see the vast majority of consumers choosing and supporting American raised beef products.
Good point. We are buying directly from a small farmer who raised her own cattle. Costs more but we know what goes into it that way. We are on the outer edges of a city but we do we get it direct. But she’s having problems with regulations too now. I don’t mind paying more, while we can. Knowing my meat is clean of all the crap now makes a difference.
I wish it wasn’t so much greed in America or anywhere else. I hope it gets better for you guys and everyone.
Need to get rid of USDA
Thanks Trinity
they want the midwest west for a wildlife reserve
They can kiss butt
Farmers need to start selling direct to consumer like joel salatin
Takes more work but farmers markets are what we need to get back to.
Interesting interview, interviewer and interviewee.
and to think our federal government is shutting down individual farmers and all natural farmers. we really have a stupid government. USDA
I live in South Carolina. In this area there quite a bit of beef production on the small scale. You talked mostly of ranching and feedlot beef. I don't know of any feedlots in our area. What impacts does this have on beef that isn't taken to feedlots?
How do we replace these lobbiest captured senators and congressmen? They've all been bought, especially in the midwest
Next time a candidate shows us he doesn't take corporate money, Vote for him or her
The crazy part is as an Australian I can’t afford to buy lamb here. Those exports to you pushes up our prices. It’s getting to be the same for beef. Lucky we have plenty of Roos and camels.
Smart man!! Gave allot of knowledge there. I'm looking into joining!! We can't allow thus takeover. I might even start a cattle farm lol
Cows don’t catch fire!!!
you're missing the biggest component of price suppression.....Futures and derivatives markets are the easiest way to suppress pricing and manipulate overall market perception
90% of Americans have no idea what you're talking about, unfortunately.
The problem with your lawsuit is that your Government is in on it. And by the time anything is decided in the maritime court if law a lot of people will starve. That is their plan. USDA should be shut down. States must take on more State & LOCAL government, and take away all control over farming from any/all Federal Government.
This is so scary for the future of our food industry !!
On my family farm we are contracted by Purdue to grow turkeys. They control everything from beginning to end.
AND HOW DID THAT WORK OUT FOR YOU????
Purdue sux
Very Informative video! Rancher knows the facts! Thanks for a great informative video man.
I always think of how the people that lived here 10,000 plus years how they had to deal with a changing world and manifest destiny
I am not an expert in business of any kind but it seems like what's happening in the beef industry should be preventable under laws against monopolies??
It really should be. Government right now is prioritizing efficiency in the name of Climate Change so they are not enforcing the Monopoly laws.
Read the history of Sysco
I raise my own. Everyone should do the same.
Trucking......exactly the same independents leasing their trucks and lease on to extremely large companies. The companies get all the profit the truck driver takes all the risk.
And they line up to take that shitty deal just like those ranchers lining up to sell their cattle sheep hogs to the mega packers then cry about the results… If stupidity was an industry..
Bill is a great asset to this country
Thank you for the nod to the sheep industry, it’s wild that we import 75% of our lamb and yet it’s not viable for American producers.
I grew up on an alfalfa farm and sheep ranch. Still farm alfalfa but we only raise a hand full of sheep anymore.
Well shit, we need to make ranchers wealthy again. Instead we have Blackrock, or shit-stone as I like to think of them.
It's All Food Industry But For Some Reason They Are Taking The Meat Away From Us And You Have To Ask The Question WHY!
Don't know if I should say good . Whole system is broken we care more for investors than doing the right thing .
The short term interpretation of the Packers and Stockyards Act by federal judges has caused this problem. Instead of enforcing the prohibitions of the Packers and Stockyards Act and making the market system work, federal judges have consistently ignored the prohibitions to give large meat packers competitive advantages.in the market. This has helped them concentrate the markets and allowed them to increase the spread between what they pay farmers and what the get from the other side of their business, the sale of meat. The problem rests completely with federal judges. Meat packers have been given the economic tools necessary to do this. These federal judge policies have made meat less available and allowed meat packer margins to increase. Federal judges are responsible for breaking the market for farmers, reduced meat supplies, and increased meat packer margins. Meat packers have been given economic advantages that allow this to happen. Federal judges have created this problem and all consumers are paying for it at the supermarket. I think we should take federal judge's salary and reduce it to the year they started in their ignoring of the Packers and Stockyards Act. No increase in their compensation and reduce it to the year they started playing god in the markets. And yes, it is in a lot of other industries as well. Why have a tyranny of the judiciary? We live in a democracy and we can fix this, if only we will.
So true. Most don’t have the capacity to understand what you are saying. This is going on for everything in the US. We have been too open to everything across the world. and it is causing our own death.
This all started with the big blizzard of 1886. So many cattle were lost that at that time the cattle industry was near collapse. The salvation came in the form of feed lots instead of open range. The number of Cowboys needed fell too. And as is normal big money started buying up those bankrupt ranches. Streamlining them and putting them on a profitable basis. It's been constant improvement since. And so here we are today, and big change is coming and it cant be stopped. Okay so much for big business impact, let's look at both the work force. I grew up on a beef cow farm. Didn't like the work.(Real cowboy work is hard stinky work) No one want to do the work, or there is not enough of those who do. The pay is a joke .......
Hello, good to see you!
How does that happen, when the USDA states the average cost is a -$24 per head per month.
A - The USDA numbers are potentially incorrect. It would not be the first time in history that the USDA numbers are incorrect. Many farmers DO NOT answer USDA numbers because they believe the numbers are used by the 'day traders' to screw with the futures prices. Or ideas in that vein.
B - "The average" is a bell curve, thus you have 50% getting returns that are better and 50% that are getting returns that are worse.
One issue is, that farmers/ranchers will say those numbers to themselves and say 'I cant make it' because the USDA (the government told me!!!) that there is a lose in production. And then some guys repeated those numbers as though they are the truth.
But in reality, farmer A and farmer B can be on the opposite side of the Bell-curve, and farmer A may be making a profit, big time because he is not suffering a death loss in his or her cattle. Farmer B may have had to call the dead-cow truck for a steer that died. On a 200 head operation, the one or two steers that died make a huge impact. In a 250000 head operation the loss of 1 or 2 is much less.
The key answer is; does the 200 head operator KNOW the costs as well as the 250,000 head operator? Why?
Because when the farmer walks into the lenders office for the annual review, the lender knows the UDSA numbers. The farmer needs to know and prove his or her numbers are better than the average.
C - Yes the large operators likely have contracts with Walmart and other large chains. Their plants are processing huge numbers of cattle. Thus they can afford to get every small scrap of meat off per animal, even to the point of the slime that is taken off with a chemical process, and sold as the cheap meat and processed meat. Walmart allows sellers into the store, but the last I checked, the farmer is carrying that meat as his inventory and not paid until it sells off the shelf. Most farmers can not carry that risk, because if that meat does not sell by the expiration date, the farmer eats the cost. A larger supplier will have that cost calculated.
D - the average cost is xxxx. This video was from 4 months ago or about April of 2024. The corn price was 4.26 today corn is at 3.70. Pricing the main ingredient is key to knowing your costs. Or can you use by products from ethanol plants or sweetcorn production?
E Farmer A and farmer B send the steer to market. One weights 1150 and gets $1.79 per lbs. The other is 1450 and gets $1.94 (actual sales from the action today). Farmer with the 1150 lbs steer yields at 60% (killed weight vs live weight) The 1450 lbs steer yields 65%. This is part of knowing your numbers. The buyers can tell the likely yield with a quick glance at the animals.
Try to sell beef privately and you will either learn the "numbers and yield" or you will go broke. Yield is one of those numbers that the smaller farmers need to know.
So making a generalized statement that the USDA said the cost is xxxxx is bullcrap. Are there challenges in the industry? Yes and most of them are; as my mother said, when you are pointing fingers, there are three pointing back at you. Make sure that the 3 pointing back at you are not loaded. Know your numbers in Loss, do everything to avoid a loss. That is why farmers have to work 24 hours a day during calving season. Then keep them healthy. Know your feed costs; are there ways you can reduce those costs? Can you be creative and add in byproduct feeds? Know your yield number, and if you do not know that one, go work at the local gas station, you will make more money. Stop listening to what the average cost is. Think of average in this terms. The average person uses 50% of their brain. That means one half of the people use less than 50% and one half of the people use more than 50%. Be in the group that uses more than 50% of your brain. Stop being a whiner and be the solution.
This man needs to run for office.
I just emailed my representative. My guess is the 2 senators from Ga don't care.
Just heard an interview with one of our states reps that calls mean more to them. I’m starting a calling campaign.
Calls make more impact.
Blackrocks tentacles are everywhere...
Would you do an interview with @GarethWynJones? Seems like some issues are the same for farmers and ranchers all over.
I like the new vest and shirt, it’s a good look. Better than the old grey vest.
Keep voting for fascists.
The word fascist was coined by moussolini. When asked what is fascism, he said " fascism is the corporate state, you may as well call it corporatism".
They killed 500,000 of is in the last war, even though we won.
Super rich people are not our friends.
What exactly is a feed lot?
Don't even get started
on the dairy industry
Are your videos on all the different social media sites?? If not the should be!! I try to repost to various sites but I am only one person so hopefully a lot of people are doing the same!!
Too many uninformed or just simply don’t care. There was one of the largest feeders in the us, recently who has been trying to break away from the packers and create their own. Locals fought against it because of various reasons. Semi traffic, immigrant workers and the possibility of higher crime rates. Would of been nice to see something American
Yes, it would have been nice.
Yep. It goes back to how our children are educated and by who.
that's been happening for years.. every big operator get better deals. weather it cattle or grain grower.. the playing field has never been equal
Do not buy from smithfield pork.
I can't blame my entire decision on this, but three of the packers you named were my industrial customers. I didnt even see close to the worst, but once I learned more about JBS I just couldn't do the job anymore. I walked away with no backup at the time.
My father was a lettuce producer, he used to bitch at all the foreign countries bribing politicians & buying into other companies; he was closer to other farmers and ranchers, and they ALL used to say THEY KNEW THIS WAS COMING - WAY BACK IN THE 70'S & 80'S!!!!
Thank you for the video
Americans live under a consumer-derived for-profit model financial system. That is how our current climate of mega-corporation control of every consumer production and distribution system came to be. Thus, this disheartening Information is not surprising, and it is an indication of the end of an era. Clearly, the American government is now run as a corporation. Government agency employees as well as Congress now work for the profit benefit of powerful moneyed interests (the actual shareholders of the country/corporation). Thus, the government is not beholden to the general population's needs or desires, only the edicts of the actual shareholders (those that contribute political contributions and lobby). In actuality, our government can not function for both polar opposite segments of society, so we need to pick one model or the other and prosper or suffer as a result of our choices at the grocery and the ballot box.
You do understand that it's the republicans who are so 'business friendly', right?
Wrapped themselves in the Flag, holding up the Bible, lying to us and selling out our whole country
Political science data suggests that,in fact, businesses have in general, garner even greater profits under Democratic presidential leadership. I am an independent. I have no dog in that fight. But Republicans have spread a myth that their policies are more business friendly when in fact their friendliness is to the mega-wealthy and not to family ranchers, farmers and middle class voters. Bill Clinton was far more corporate compatible than Richard Nixon for example. Clinton canceled Glass-Stegal and established NAFTA.
Insanity period. Greed big people doing evil things behind the scenes believe me !
There’s no nice, friendly solutions to our plight. We can’t win by playing their game, we can’t reason with them, the system is rigged against us.
American's need to stand united. I'm a meat eater & regardless, we need American farms to be American owned, operated & meat costs will be what they B. Let's keep our food supply American owned & operated!
I raised pork and chickens and as a small farmer i could not sell my animals, I was harrased by the "livestock inspectors", i finally gave away all of my animals.
Thats exactly what they were counting on