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Think you'll appreciate the usefulness of this video. It discusses the health benefits of livestock raised on diverse pastures versus grass hay, versus silage, versus grass monocultures, versus grain finished. The health benefit differences were astounding. Consumers will be hearing of this and wanting products from livestock raised on diverse pastures. This is where being ahead of the curve is useful: ruclips.net/video/6ZQ1r9jGdss/видео.html
Except for a rare need, we haven’t purchased meat from the store in decades. Each year, farmer raises a beef, another 2 lambs and another raises a pasture pork. We live near a butcher who we have annual appointments for the animals. Stopped going to restaurants as they can’t match the quality of meat, within our budget. We pasture raise broiler chickens in the yard and have 8 egg laying chickens. Support your local farmers, now and in the future.
You’ve overlooked a crucial step. The government began to regulate who could butcher retail and wholesale meats. When that happened, it separated the farmer from the ability to sell his product. He was now reliant upon a middleman rather than having a middleman as an option. I am a surgeon - like, I operate on people using aseptic technique and if I mess up, it’s worse than food poisoning - yet, I am not allowed to butcher meat for retail sale. It’s actually hilarious. Anyway, long story short, vertical integration is always most efficient; the slaughter house didn’t need the farmer but the farmer was legally required to need the slaughterhouse. The conclusion was a forgone one and 1998 was just the year that they had finally amassed the capital for the takeover. A good bandsaw and mincer/sausage maker will cost around $500. An application to the local county health office is a $125 class on aseptic technique for idiots and the application for a retail slaughter permit in my County (also in Texas) was $85. So, for around $700, you can sell meat for retail rather than auction prices. It’s my least expensive hobby and a good way to “stick it to the man.”
Gov’t (state and federal) has inserted itself at almost every level: entry- level with taxation, mid-level with USDA mandates , and high level with importing rules and marketing to consumers. Buying from farm is great idea but the cost makes it stupid! I can’t afford to buy for my household with grocery prices being less. The mid level also has other barriers such as angus association downgrading other breeds cause they ain’t black. These same folks are the big ranches that would strike contracts with packers! At every level capitalism creates barriers that make up the pipeline of pasture to plate. Only real way to push back is to get all the middle men (and govt) out of the pipeline which sucks for them but needed since they are the ones who ultimately sign the contracts the end small ranches. Just my thoughts after watching the video, thanks!
@@gordylocks capitalism isn’t the government inserting itself. That’s socialism under the guise of the government using its powers to protect members of society.
@@bronzearmy2645 your right! what I'm saying is, what's to stop greedy rich middle men from inserting themselves and it bumps out small ranches. I'm saying, what if those same greedy guys, insert themselves into government and initiated policy to benefit the big corporations which could bump out the small ranchers. I'm saying, why can't small ranches connect with neighboring farmers to create their own feedlots like back in the day. I'm saying why has government policy made it more lucrative to contract farmers for their ag products which deters them from working with ranchers. I've been looking at it this way, are ranchers going to sell their beef to nearby ranches...NO! Are they hoping to sell their meat to city folks and around the world...YES! its unfair to demonize the word socialism when we "beef feeds the world" and by same token, claim that "capitalism" is great for small business when its greedy money hungary people inserting themselves for their own gain. Thanks
@@gordylocks the reason ranchers and farmers can’t really connect is that the strangle hold is on the Butchering. Government regulations say that to sell meat across state lines, you must have a USDA sticker, which is very expensive to get since you must pay to have a full time inspector on site whenever killing, butchering or packaging is taking place. To sell within your state, you must satisfy the regulations of the health authority in your state; however, even within a state, the major chains won’t sell anything without the USDA sticker. This means, the only way you can sell direct to consumer is if you own part of the animal: quarters for cows, halves for anything else basically. Thus, you can’t realistically butcher in mass for your own clientele since you can’t sell the whole animal. These regulations were done by big government bureaucrats to show voters that they are “protecting” them. Now, if you’re a butcher like Pilgrims, Cargill, Tyson and etc, then you can slowly buy your own grain farms, ranches, delivery services, etc to vertically integrate; however, a farmer, rancher and trucker cannot creep into your butchering business due to the red tape. This would never happen in Laissez-faire capitalism; this is big government overreach creating a monopoly by regulating a floor with no ceiling. You may ask why; the answer is simple: control. It’s much easier to control 3-4 huge corporations than it is to control 30,000-40,000 small time farmers, ranchers, butchers.
WOW!! I AM IMPRESSED!! This is an honest/clear/comphrehensive explanation! The basic buzz-word missing is Subsidy. It trashed little farmers since 1960's. Once they were gone, VOLITILITY reigned!! Wheat took out an uncle. Milk took out my g-parents/dad. Now, it's cycling thru Pork, Beef,...
I raise sheep and just expanded to cattle but I no longer approach it as a profitable business. You have to raise them for yourself. Your own food supply just like the old days.
Yes, I agree. I'm in Australia and as I look around the place there is no point getting into commercial farming. Growers just don't get paid enough. The self-sufficiency mixed production farm is the only way to survive.
I am planning to get into this. with grass fed animals you should be able to make some money as long as you get rain. I plan to cover my food cost by selling them direct to customers with a local meat locker doing the processing and the customer paying direct.
@@greggmcclelland8430 Talk to others doing it in your area. Theres a lot of variables. Here we don’t have enough processors and the soonest you can get an animal in is 1 year out. Will your customers wait that long? Calculate your winter hay costs. Hay prices are moon rocketing higher. There’s a lot to it newbies don’t always account for. Good luck.
Local sourcing is such a critical issue. So many need to realize this. I live in a rural area in Canada, raise my own poultry for meat and eggs, buy whole local pork and beef and have it locally processed. Grow my own garden. Even in my area I'm amazed that many still just buy everything at the supermarket for convenience. Have to build strong local food chain supply if we are going to survive what is coming.
This is such an interesting video because this type of thing happens in a lot of industries. It's happening right now in the trucking industry as well.
You don't go broke when you sell cuts retail! There was a time that the only way to make a living farming was to raise commodities and sell to brokers who sold to the markets. In this day and age we have a multitude of ways to market and sell our products at the highest retail prices, without the middlemen. It's time to take back control of the markets so the big guys can't force the little guys out. The little guys will always have the advantage because they are the only ones who can provide pasture to fork, locally raised, truly organic options that buyers can trust!
@@ktimmons50 I sell mine by whole, side, quarter, and eighths. Choice is $4.90/lb and prime is $5.50/lb. If you can't afford that, better stay out of Walmart.
I wish things were different however the reality of it is that even the local processor has the monopoly outside of the big 4. The margins are so thin on selling direct market that it is not worth the fuel, fees and permits. An extra 25$ per sheep (outside of wholesale) does not work for the added energy to get it to the local retail market. Hopefully others have a better situation, but the beef market is not much better. Until more folks wake up and realize that the WEF's future of farm ground is about trading carbon credits and not raising protein all while they are forced to eat Bill Gates' bug protein, things will continue to collapse and consolidate into a corp controlled environment.
Thanks for your reporting and interview. Hopefully this systemic crisis can be changed into positive action through observing and working with the land ie Permaculture. Big up the farmers.
Greed makes market prices go up demand keeps them there . When demand drops prices have to go down and the market crashes . You have to refuse to buy it if the price is high
Personally, I buy from local ranchers for beef and pork. I can get custom service and get to choose from grass fed or grass fed/grain finished or pure grain fed. I get to choose, not the buyer at the supermarket chain. Not sure why anyone would do otherwise, other than perhaps convenience. I get comparable prices and much better quality. Any google search for beef will give many places that will take care of your needs.
The biggest challenge in consumers buying direct from the farmer is the lack of independent meat processors In my area Southwest Ohio the wait time to get a steer into a processor is over a year In order to grow the direct beef market we need more processing capacity
My neighbor thought he was doing a good deal. He had a small herd of mini cattle. He was selling folks a fat calf in his field, and would deliver it to the local Mennonite operated Slaughter plant for the buyer's . He sold one and they processed it. And the next one they told him they where booked for two years. The thing is they have a meat store at their place. And another country store where they sell their own products. They werent gonna let some English in on their markets. So he reduced his herd to 5 head on 160 acres.
During the 1980’s , I would have 200-250 hogs on feed all year around. By the end of the 80’s hog price had dropped some, and there was a marked shift from small feeders like me, to large feeder barns. The packers wanted a fixed steady number of hogs to slaughter each week, and not have to just rely on what was available at auction. So the packers began to offer contract price to the large scale hog barns that could supply 100 or more hogs each week,52 weeks of the year, and give them a premium over weekly auction price. Needless to say these contracts were picked up quickly by larger operations. And once the weekly auction had begun to die out, and smaller feeders had left the industry. The value of the price in the contracts offered to the large farmers began to slip too. Many hog farms went out of business, changed ownership or just went flat broke. While there used to be lots of farms in our county with a feeder barn or a farrowing operation, there are now none !! As for myself, I was also milking cows at the same time as feeding pigs, and I quit the pigs half way through 1987, and just milked more cows. Best decision I ever made.
I started raising pigs a couple years ago and the amount of piglets for sale independently now is easily 3x the amount of when I started looking for piglets. The grain sales have greatly increased and I think that consumers have noticed the decrease in quality that grocery store pork has to offer.
@@martinclark6952 I’ve been learning as I go and thankfully its been good. Had a few litters and it’s already paying for itself. Plus homemade bacon is awesome
@@jeffhuntley2921 that’s awesome! I’m just starting off and by my calculations it looked like it would be rather profitable. Glad to hear someone else making it work. Can’t wait for homemade bacon!!!
Thanks for this info from all of y'all. I quit hogs shortly after high school. Feed bills were too big. That was 40 years ago. Kept my ear to the ground and follow agricultural news. Went to trucking. More than happy quit this 20 years ago. Small operators of almost any type of entity are becoming fewer every day. Our country was designed for a small government with the population observing governed by the people. This concept is obsolete, out dated and not fashionable any more. Ever the youngest generation is expecting everything free. Economic concepts are collapsing and the children of today have no idea of how our Congress thinks going further in debt and printing more money is our saving grace because the budget is beyond our credit limit.
You say that the younger generation wants everything for free, do you not realize it was your generation that started this mess? The boomer crowd will not go away. Pelosi, Biden, Schumer, Fauci are all within the worst generation to ever live. It seems like all boomers do now is complain and create problems. The whole 80s-90s “conservative” movement was a disaster that let the left do as they please while everyone jumped to the moronic libertarian train. Now young conservatives like myself reject this mess you guys have created. We actually give a damn about the culture and our way of life, boomers literally only care about their government retirement checks we can’t even afford to pay for. Finisher market is still here for hogs. Larger companies are far more efficient at producing meat. The way to beat this would be a CO-OP system similar to what we do for grain. If smaller farmers can market and pack together we would crush larger integration.
If you see the thumbs up, the majority agree. Democrats are attempting to buy young generation votes with gifting everything under the sun. Texas is the most successful of all states economically with no income tax, sun set laws and rainy day funds. True with support Americans and attempt to keep out illegal imagration that cost tax payers. I do feel sorry for Thier situation but why should I be paying for free benefits to non residents? Again buying votes . Old school economics believe support oneself first. Earn your way by working with morals, values, ethics and principles. My family imagrated during pototoe blight and endenture farmed to pay for passage. Farming is an occupation many immigrants could do to survive and progress. Are they? Where?
@@terryanderson4366 democrats have been buying votes and even people for 200 plus years. Conservatives decided to give up the fight on monetary policy. FDR and Wilson were terrible about government handouts. You’re historically illiterate if you claim that all this regulation and handouts started 20 years ago. If you start a bad action, you are far more guilty then the person who maintains that action. Republicans used to support illegal immigration not all that long ago. It is out of control now and the border needs to be shut down. If your political opponent saws grow and you say shrink, you will not win. The greatest generation and boomers started this spending spree. Politicians know that boomers would rather see the country on fire then give away their social security. Politicians know it so well it’s either make or brake for a politician on both sides, you can’t even mention scrapping the program.
in new zealand most companies have started labelling their pork products made from pork from any of these countries - denmark, usa, germany, poland, finland etc
Add that here in Wisconsin our Dept of Ag is in the back pocket of big pork, especially when Walker was in. We had a decent market still until a couple of years ago when new regs cut the small guy all up, then with covid, they took all our slaugtherhouse space from the direct market guys. Now you have 2-3 years waits for space.
The other really important point for the consumer is that the meat is MUCH higher in quality. We buy 1/4 to 1/2 a side every year and it blows away our super market bought stuff.
It isn't just hogs, and cattle that the packers have taken over. The first meat animals were the poultry producers. They figured out that they could produce chickens and turkeys on a predictable schedule and control feed costs by purchasing feed grains on the futures market so they controlled cost and supply. They then applied the same thing to hogs. Cattle are the next to go through the same process. The big thing will be them deciding to buy cattle and start the breeding to finish and processing chain.
I really like your content, I plan on getting some land here in West Texas next year and getting it set up for livestock, a garden and a butchering area so that the wife and I can help to take care of the church congregation, and the over flow will be sold. I know that the heat and the drought, has been tough but firmly believe in prayer, and listening to Papa when he gives his responses. We do have a cold front coming with some precipitation! To finish Aug 2022 out! Hallelujah!
Good luck with that. God is currently restoring man’s commanded diet back to Genesis 1:29 as prophesied. Your vain resistance is futile. The tribulations are intensifying, wake up folks. This is why; “I give you all of the fruits of the trees with their seeds within, this shall be your - > Meat. < - I give you all the plants on the earth that produce seeds. This shall be your food. And to all the beasts of the earth, to all the fowl of the air, to every thing that creeps upon the earth with the breath of life within it’s nostrils I give all green grasses.” - Genesis 1:29 Yeshua Condemns Animal Sacrifice Shows It To Be From Satan And Not God And after many other things were said and done, Yeshua returned to the city, and looked upon the innocent creatures of God awaiting slaughter as daily sacrifice in the temple at Jerusalem. And he said unto his disciples and many people that had gathered around them, for everywhere Yeshua went, crowds surrounded him to listen and hear his wisdom: "Behold these poor innocent beasts of the earth, they harm not themselves, nor man, nor any other creature. Yea, they eat the green vegetation of the field, sinless and without blood guilt they have remained since their creation. Faithful and obedient they remain to their masters in hope that Humane feelings be their reward in life, but instead they receive every hurt and death at man's hand. Lo, the lust of ignorant and stubborn man brings them down in death and much blood, that men may satisfy the lusts of their own flesh. Such men have hearts, but know them not, for they have become like their idols of stone, hard and vain. "Woe to such blasphemers who reject the Holy Law of the sacredness of all life! Woe to such blind guides with hearts of stone, who use their eyes to lust after things they need not nor are lawful unto them! For they transgress the Law of Moses to maketh themselves fat on the flesh and blood of innocent victims, that God commanded them not even since the beginning! Woe be unto this very temple built by human hands, for the Temple made without hands is here in their midst, but they see or hear not! "For I come to end all sacrifice and bloodshed and tell ye, if ye cease not offering and eating of flesh and blood, the wrath of God shall not cease from you, even as it came to your fathers in the wilderness, who under Moses lusted for flesh, which they ate to their fulness. and were filled with rottenness, and the plague consumed them according to their evil desires. "For I say unto you, Though ye be gathered together in my bosom, if ye keep not all my commandments, I will cast you forth. For if ye keep not the lesser revelations, who, ask, shall give you the greater ones? For since time immemorial, God hath at no time requireth animal or human sacrifices, lest He be inferior to the Holy Law! Nor hast God permitted man or beast to devour one another for food, lest He be ignorant of His own Love! How then, do ye eat flesh and give sacrifices of blood according to the law of Humane Love. "Ye know not the True God, but worship the perverted god of thy world, even Satan the one and same father of the sword and bloodshed. For by this one, death entered into the world and death spread to all things, for all things are in bondage as slaves to the master of the lie. But I come to set free those imprisoned by chains of sin, and give forth my Holy Law again unto the nations that they may know the only True God of love and mercy. For my God above suffereth sin and error of men much, lest He put a swift end to the vanity of the world and cut off His Elect Seed. "Be ye faithful to the complete law of God, lest ye stumble in thy evil ways and meet death as thy final reward. For he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much, and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. So it is with the Holy Law, for the first truths you keepeth not, but seek after the greater. Seek ye first the laws of God and all else will be revealed unto you. No man may digest the solid food of God, lest first he taketh of the liquid, for my law is the water of life. Drink ye, like pure water, and all other mysteries of God will be opened to you, and then ye will know the True God and His Good Works. "For ye desire to serve two masters, one good, one evil, and cannot, for either ye will hate the one, and love the other, or else ye will stick to the one and despise the other.... Know ye then, thy true root, whether ye be good or evil, and then ye shall know the truth that giveth life and health. Ye cannot serve both the True God and Satan, for the True God is All Love and His Holy Law leadeth to All Life, there being no death in His Order and Household. "But know ye that Satan is the god of death and bloodshed and also giveth to the people many unholy laws that the True God hateth and condemneth. Know ye not that the two cannot mix, but the inferior shall be done away with, for the Holy Law has served as judge over the living and the dead since the days of Adam and Eve. Hence, ye are they which justify yourselves before men and God, for God knoweth your hearts and your ways. "For know ye, that the same Law and the Prophets were here until John and changeth not. Yea, even before the foundations of thy earth were laid, the Law was and always will be ... Yea, it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle of the Law to fail its purpose. Keep ye the Law, then, and all other things will be added unto you, for there is no thing above the Law, and any thing which comes below the Law, is not perfect nor complete, nor is it from the True God of Love." And the Pharisees heard all these sayings of Yeshua, and observed that he was speaking of them, for they lived according to doctrines of men and of the devil, and not the true law Moses hath given them in the wilderness, they being responsible for the lawlessness of animal sacrifice and flesh eating among Israel. God’s words as spoken by his Prophets. “For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.” - Jeremiah 7:22 “How can we say we are wise and that the law of Moses is with us? Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies. Behold! The hand of the scribe has turned it into a lie.” - Jeremiah 8:8 “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot have wickedness with celebration; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;” - Isaiah 1:11-16 “Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.” - Isaiah 43:23 “He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.” - Isaiah 66:3 “For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.” - Hosea 6:6-8 “With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” - Micah 6:6-8 \ {0.o} / . Mathew 12:7 “But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless” If you knew that mercy was what was desired rather than sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless creatures of God. .
I've been buying Beef (by the quarter or half steer), Chicken and pork (buy the cut) from local farmers for about 7 years now. I live in Massachusetts. If we can do it here, I imagine you could do that in most states. Also get my vegetable from a local farmer through a CSA farm share. Just picked up my weekly allotment this afternoon.
I've had several calves from the feedlot live. I bottle fed them to around 150 lbs then l cut down the milk and feed hay (grass) for the calves. They still keep growing, and l sold them to farmers for replacement calves. The rest l raised to eat.
The best way to keep the market independant is by making it easy for people to start a slaughter house or a farm. All you have to do is eliminate lots of rules.
We were a small producer(15 to 20 head a year) until a few years ago when we could not take out cattle to the nearest auction house, across state line. Lost money that year and did not restock. Sold the farm this last year. Good Luck to anyone trying to make a little on the side raising livestock.
Here in Louisiana the State is going after the small cattle "ranchers". They are going after people who sell cattle to individuals or a group on shares who buy and get the animal butchered by the cattle seller or family member who does the butchering. It revolves around a tax issue concerning these types of transactions and the stop is stopping the sales and preventing a way to even pay a tax if seller/buyer wanted to do that. It's crazy!
@@denp54z I am in Louisiana. Our place was just north of Vivian. I did not know about this part. State killing off the small timers. Sad. Soon it will only be large mega farms and people who do homesteading.
@@dhollongstreet4725 I was in Vivian a few times last weekend. I wanted to stop at the old Dairy Queen, Mexican restaurant, but it was too late or too early. Helping someone move from Karnack. The problem with Louisiana is John Bell, I live in SW AR and a republican governor and no problems. I'm from Benton, a few miles past cypress. We've had cows every day of my life. I've never sold to an individual, mainly because nobody here can seem to think that far ahead. A butcher here has built a shop at his house. I know a few has sold to him. But he pays not when you leave it. Pay is after he hangs it in the cooler, based on that weight. I don't like that. I don't like getting all these cattle up and run through, just to get him one or two. I don't like hauling one or two over there. I don't like getting a definite maybe on my money. Which, like I said, never personally sold to him. But, I'm past 50, and have learned what I don't like. I loaded last Wednesday and sent to Hope. I rarely do Texarkana. Better get all your sellable cattle sold before mid September. Bad wind has been blowing.
Great comments and a very informative channel. Thank you. I now am starting to raise protein on my property. Retired at 50. Might as well help my kids and grandchildren out. I plan to use my operation as a model for them. They want the same but inflation has hindered their growth. Definitely doing rabbits, chicken, lambs and hogs.
I’m a independent hog producer, have been for 45 years. Your description of the 1998 crash needs tweaking. What happened starting in the early nineties was many vertically integrated producers (some packers, some not) were finding success with their new systems they had established. New facilities, better genetics, overall better management gave them a production edge over the smaller family farm. They had better access to capital which in turn allowed them to build state of the art facilities, which allowed them to have better production. They were profitable and had a lower break even , so they continued to grow and gain market share. Which brings us to 1998, when production was brought to a head. Simply put, supply out striped demand. There was more hogs coming to market than the packers had space to kill. I remember that you might have to wait a couple of weeks to book your spot. Of course in turn the packers didn’t need to bid, which drove the prices down to near zero. We survived because we forwarded priced our hogs so we didn’t get those stinking prices. But many producers didn’t and they lost their shirts. A lot of good neighbours went out of business which was sad, but in reality they couldn’t compete, and in any business you must remain competitive.
how do you operate when the live animal hasn't even doubled in price at the same time your equipment,price of fuel,oil,taxes and labor have tripled in price,simple economics,the animals basics are not that different from before,so either you are stealing feed,or not paying your bills,so quit lying to the public to make you appear smart
@@threesisterstrucking8044 My barns are payed off, I grow my own feed grain, we make are own feed. I always use forward pricing on both my inputs and my Hog prices. Maybe you should used a calculator so you know what the real costs are before you accuse someone of lying!
I bet those "better genetics" depend on a highly controlled environment and a specific diet to remain competitive. As we move deeper into Great Depression 2 pigs that do better on open pasture might do better.
@@reswobiandreaming3644 your not going to feed the country with pasture raised pigs. I’ve got a question for you…how many hogs do you finish per year on pasture?
Mark Shepard went permaculture organic and joined the Organic Valley co-op. OVC has expanded a lot and been a great counter to the 7 mega-corporation conglomerates' hold on the market. If we can get more freight train lines built in the west to interconnect more it will give more economic power to the independent ag community. Also-- the independent ag community needs to learn more about soil hydrology and healthy soil biota for flood and drought mitigation. A lot of ignorance out there that is costing farmers money.
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@@soyoucametosee7860 Freight trains are still strongly in use. The problem is that some have exclusivity contracts that tie up their use for twenty years into the future. These monopolies to block out independent food producers are under the control of mega corporate conglomerates. Mark Shepard is one of the people that signed on early with Organic Farms and can tell you a lot about the protectionism that shuts out the independents, even Organic Valley producers...
@@davehughesfarm7983 Truckers are underpaid, overgouged. Think a train system might actually help. Instead of being forced onto the long haul road they could be the part that provides more local connectivity and flexibility within their own communities. This leaves truckers less at the whim of mega corporate conglomerates, and instead under allows more natural forces, and profitability. It would certainly reduce the strain from the MCC gasoline monopolies. More rail would certainly create more localized manufacturing opportunities such as modular housing which could meet many simultaneous demands for more hauling work, housing, localized employment, etc.
Farmers and Ranchers need to make their own market house and processing services. Push out the big corporations. $7/pound for beef is outrageous when you only get minimum income. Make your money on bulk.
Theres a very old abattior down the road from me it closed in the 80's along with communities. I find it disturbing to see how things have changed in the name of greed. I support the family farm and contribute back to my local communities by buying local as much as possible. God Bless
Exactly what the Americans did to Canada in 2004 in the Beef Market... destroyed the lively hood of every Canadian beef farmer. It has never recovered and has followed the trend of beef farmers average age getting into the mid 60's. Thanks for talking candidly about farming, just know the 1998 crash in hogs was leveraged by beef for some until 2004...
@@brent9393 Can you be more specific? I get American TV channels...I know they were claiming Canada's closed border killed the dairy in the Midwest...but we drove thru Arizona and saw the many mega farms where those cows moved to over the last 10 years. They were looking for immigrant labor to compete with California who did it 20 years ago...and they took out family dairy in the process.
Good, America first. Couldn’t give a damn about Canadian beef. I’d much rather our farms make profit than Canada’s stay in business. Americans have a duty to our people at the expense of other countries.
Love your videos. With this information we have been setting up ourselves to not only provide meat birds and goats for sale in our local town. I’ve been trying to encourage everyone to know where your food comes from. Not what plant or big business but your local farmer and gardeners
I went through this in 1997 hogs went from 40 cents to 7 cents Christmas 1997...By Feb they were back to 20 cents..Could have made a killing buying every hog at every sale barn..
Well with prices what they are I think if a local farmer can produce any food item at a fair price it'll sell. If they want or expect an atrocious amount they'll never have a market. But that's just my humble opinion. This is the first year on my land building my house now and I'd like to think I can sell affordable delicious food to others at a fair market price actually less than that cause grocery stores are insanely priced right now. To me 4 dollars a lb for a quarter or half of any animal is fair at todays prices.
Matt Stroller did an article on this topic on his substack. His substack is called "BIG", where he talks about monopolies and anti-trust law. For those of you interested in another perspective on this topic.
Stay warm, y'all. We're about to get a bad winter storm here in Georgia. The wind is roaring tonight. I put all of my chickens in their coops except for one room in the trees in the woods. It'll be raining in the morning when I open the doors for them to go out so I have my coat by the door so I'm not drenched. Night night everyone.
So with all the things going on in the world ...the govt has decided that this man and ones before him have taken care of his community with NO issues for generations and they want to persecute him and demand he keep a lawyer who is not doing his job and no one has stepped up to help this man?? This is a sad sad time and this govt has really run off the rails.
Having a business to a scale that allows your per unit cost to be competitive with major players in your industry is the only way to survive. If you are not of sufficient size you will need to find means to cut cost. Used reliable equipment, innovative processes, it is not for the faint of heart or the lazy. Selling direct locally a superior product at a lower price. Good way to carve yourself a niche. The big boys will sell at a loss if you are to succesful.
I used to buy meat from local farmers when I lived in WA State. But I recently moved and haven't found any local farmers to buy meat from. I went to the eatwild website, and the two ranchers closest to me have pretty high prices... like around $8.50 per lb for hamburger and almost $20 per lb for new york steak. Since there is no middle man, it seems like the cost would be on par or less than the prices at the grocery store. Anyhow, I'm retired and on a fixed income, so I guess the factory farm meat at the grocery store will have to do.
it all comes down to the rules and regulations from the FDA that allows these monopolies to thwart any competition. they make it impossible to start a business to compete with them
Contrary to some of the political rhetoric, big corporations love regulation! It's the way that they can lock out the ability of a new competitor to show up who can't afford to go through all the government hoops
It's getting crazy. We by our lamb from a local rancher who sells at the local farmers market. We grow our own vegetables on our 5 acres. Thought about buying our own beef from a small rancher and processor just down the road.
Very good video and this is happening now in the Philippines where the price of pig feed is going up and the selling price of pigs is going down, it's a no win situation for small pig farmers. if nothing is done the Philippines will keep importing pork instead of getting pork locally.
we did the cow calf operating and we had pasture ground , it got competitive on the pastures and land values went up along with pasture values, we even had to fight off people wanting bicycle trails and recreational trails and Recreation, I don't know where the people think they're going to get their food. My feeling is once they get control the food they can charge whatever they want, and what they're being fed you wouldn't feed a dead rat. I know what is in some of that feed and it's unbelievable. I would love to get my pasture up and going again but it would take me 10 years to pay for all the fences that needs to be upgraded and trim out trees along with creek Crossings, there's a lot of work involved and nobody will help. I have the fever but I think I'll get over it. There's not the drought relief or government assistance for Cattlemen like there is for row crops or grains, when you go through hardship with cattle you're on your own .
We finally weaponized the DOJ against the evil Republicans. They must immediately be thrown into "reeducation" camps so we can take their children and teach them that gender doesn't matter. Republicans are terrorist that work for Russia and will be labeled as such! The IRS can now take their property so we can donate to the Federal government! Public execution's for all of the traitors! If you try to vote, we have Dominion machines to ensure the vote is counted the correct way. Donnie and the rest of you its over. We have all of the media controlled, the tech platforms censoring you, and now we can raid you with impunity. We can change the definition to suit our agenda and you WILL submit to the New Liberal World Order. Nothing will stop us! MUAHAHAHA
Them cows and a few free donkeys will clear it. It shouldn't take more than a few days to fix the fence. I just fenced 100 acres. Next is 65 acres, then a 40. Both places have no fence.
The way I see it, every sector of agriculture is going to face a common scenario of sorts of the processor trying to vertically integrate their supply chain.
Unfortunately, because of cities, consumer based change just won't work here. We need the law to change. We need farmers to be able to slaughter their own animals and sell to the consumer with an unstated legal waiver that accepts the risk. Until that happens, small farms will remain largely uncompetitive.
Big business and our politicians have allowed 4 companies to dominate the meat packing industry- Cargill, Tyson Foods, JBS and National Beef Packing. Now we as consumers suffer the consequences.
My family and I only buy both from a local producer. Best beef and pork around. Kroger, Walmart, etc. isn't even close to either price, nor quality. Period. I'm keeping my money local, and we're eating a healthier product. 🐂🐖
Thank you and your sharp business mind for all of this, these huge corporate interests are trainwrecking everything for farmers and consumers. I don’t eat land-based meat, but when I shop for gifts for friends, meat to bring to share at a bbq, or for dairy for myself, there are several local farms I am loyal to. Good people, quality products. Thanks again.
There is another thing..... Most producers cannot afford to glean market intelligence on supply and demand. The folks at the Futures Market do. But then , those Commdity Speculators can afford to have a Bloomberg terminal at their fingertips. My perception is that most estimates on the marketplace are merely guess work. That and efficiencies of scale and leverage gained by packers. Farm to fork sounds like a nifty idea , but it does not meet the demands for urbanites. Even if you ship your cuts through Amazon or Fedex. At best, some restaurateur who sources it's cuts by a local purveyor. And we all know how wholesale meat markets have been disappearing thanks to Real Estate Gentrification. Metro area per capita meat consumption is what makes or breaks what meat purveyors can deliver.
I tried. You cannot make a profit on a 30 head herd selling to the big three processors. I make money selling to the consumer, but most of them do not have a freezer big enough to store 250 pounds of meat. Add the fact that there are so few small processors, and those that do exist are saddled with overly burdensome government regulations. The processors control the price they pay, and the sale price. Three companies monopolize 90% of the beef market. There is no such thing as enforcement or policing against monopolistic practices. Bigger companies make bigger political contributions. It is a form of "protection" money.
I agree with Mr Wall, and I will add, in my opinion, the packers one day will own large portion of the cow’s. The rancher will still own the ground and just be a laborer, he will be paid just enough by the packer for a live calf the he can grow and send to the feedlot. He will eventually be beat down to the point of giving up. In turn the feedlots and packers will eventually own enough of the the ranches to squeeze out the rest.
@@grassroot011 crash the land market with drought so that it's affordable, then turn off the HAARP; but God doesnt let it get that far. Micah 2:2 Does Micah 2:4 refer to "Let's Go, Brandon"?
@@grassroot011 They can buy up as much arable land as they like but ultimately that's a piece of paper. Whoever occupies the space and uses it will determine who "owns" the land. I think our current system of "ownership" might collapse in the near future because it is based on debt which means that no-one really "owns" property.
The beef market has been corrupted. THe processing plants (Unions) were sent home during the 'planned-demic' with pay. and a lot of them are not back to work. In Texas and Arizona the price on the hoof is right at $.90.
I agree 2020 was a wake up call. My family actually did something quit our jobs sold our house and bought a small ranch in Oklahoma. It's been a hard adjustment, plenty of obstacles but I believe in God's plan for us. Im afraid most Americans will not see the warning signs unfortunately.
We were involved in the 1998 pork market crash.had 700 fat hogs ready to go and had to take 7to 8 cents a pound.we lost 70,000 dollars of our equity over this minipulated disaster.i agree with corbitt.they have been trying vigorously to do the same with the cattle.
I believe that the beef packers have already out-done their achievements in the pork market. The packers at least pay the hog producers for their labor, while they have gotten the beef producer to sell their product below the cost of production and subsidize it with their off farm income and government subsidies. IMHO most producers have no idea what’s coming. They believe that higher prices will lead to profit but they don’t factor in even higher input costs.
If you want to make a million dollars in livestock start with 3 million dollars and you'll end up being left with less than a million dollars if not bankrupt!!!
You’re right, they are clueless. Most listen to people like corbit and believe they should be happy taking below production pricing. Every show corbit does he’s telling them how great they are doing by taking $1.20 or similar per pound live weight. He knows what he’s doing.
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Here is what I see as the problem 1. (This one is overall for business) we rely on/support money over trade and barter 2. Every ranch should be set up self sufficiently ( this includes cutting out every middle man, butcher it yourself, sell or use the leather, have meat freezers, work with your neighbors to migrate the cattle, have a small refinery to turn the hooves into glue and make the bones into broth, waste nothing from the beef, make soap from the fat) 3. Part of keeping the land/cattle healthy is migrating them just like the buffalo did, if you try to keep them in one area they die as the gentleman was saying, but they have to move with the season 4. The ranchers should own there own auctions ( if they prefer to do it that way). My way, you may not get as rich but you will be have more stability With the ranch being self sufficient you need to have the means and the store to move the cattle as well as sell it and to work with every one around you ( this piggy backs off of being self sufficient, it is more accurately being community efficient when running a business) if we have a sufficient and effective community of ranchers we do not need a cattleman's association. For example if you neighbor owns pigs the other woodland etc you work together and sell from your own general store, I would be against someone who is not part of the ranchers working because it would be simple for him to cut you out, lastly get involved with the lawmaking and outvote/overturn monopoly laws and draft bills that are structured according to maintaining your business and vote them in. I sincerely believe the barter system would work great in this area because it is not controlled by money which when we break it down always appears to be part of the problem
I hope that you find a group of people to help you fulfill what you're talking about. The average person is so beaten down with so many excuses that they're too destroyed to do what you're talking about. Make your ministry to the up and outers not the down and outers life is too short
@@peterjones3226Much appreciated. I have already started in my state. You are correct, I told one man that most people do not have the desire to fight for good results. Sadly but truthfully he told me you are absolutely right because "I" am the same way. I told him it wasn't too late to change and do things the right way instead of the way he had been. I hope you take a stab at it this way as well.
@@DedicatedSpartan I found that you want to live near an Amish community to capitalize on their individual business models. They are very dedicated to their businesses and are trained in entrepreneurship. A 36-year-old man or woman has already sold out on their dream and is already set on their path very limited lateral movements can be achieved with that group.. once you get headed in that direction with all that infrastructure you will frighten many people and silence the rest because they will realize there are two old and don't have enough cash flow to get anywhere in the next 10 years. Invest in 20 and 30 year olds on these major projects my 70 and 80 year old friends cannot help me on my lumber dryer and Sawmill to a reasonable degree
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Think you'll appreciate the usefulness of this video. It discusses the health benefits of livestock raised on diverse pastures versus grass hay, versus silage, versus grass monocultures, versus grain finished. The health benefit differences were astounding. Consumers will be hearing of this and wanting products from livestock raised on diverse pastures. This is where being ahead of the curve is useful:
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Except for a rare need, we haven’t purchased meat from the store in decades. Each year, farmer raises a beef, another 2 lambs and another raises a pasture pork. We live near a butcher who we have annual appointments for the animals. Stopped going to restaurants as they can’t match the quality of meat, within our budget. We pasture raise broiler chickens in the yard and have 8 egg laying chickens. Support your local farmers, now and in the future.
You’ve overlooked a crucial step. The government began to regulate who could butcher retail and wholesale meats. When that happened, it separated the farmer from the ability to sell his product. He was now reliant upon a middleman rather than having a middleman as an option. I am a surgeon - like, I operate on people using aseptic technique and if I mess up, it’s worse than food poisoning - yet, I am not allowed to butcher meat for retail sale. It’s actually hilarious. Anyway, long story short, vertical integration is always most efficient; the slaughter house didn’t need the farmer but the farmer was legally required to need the slaughterhouse. The conclusion was a forgone one and 1998 was just the year that they had finally amassed the capital for the takeover.
A good bandsaw and mincer/sausage maker will cost around $500. An application to the local county health office is a $125 class on aseptic technique for idiots and the application for a retail slaughter permit in my County (also in Texas) was $85. So, for around $700, you can sell meat for retail rather than auction prices. It’s my least expensive hobby and a good way to “stick it to the man.”
Thank you sir.
Gov’t (state and federal) has inserted itself at almost every level:
entry- level with taxation, mid-level with USDA mandates , and high level with importing rules and marketing to consumers.
Buying from farm is great idea but the cost makes it stupid! I can’t afford to buy for my household with grocery prices being less.
The mid level also has other barriers such as angus association downgrading other breeds cause they ain’t black. These same folks are the big ranches that would strike contracts with packers!
At every level capitalism creates barriers that make up the pipeline of pasture to plate. Only real way to push back is to get all the middle men (and govt) out of the pipeline which sucks for them but needed since they are the ones who ultimately sign the contracts the end small ranches.
Just my thoughts after watching the video, thanks!
@@gordylocks capitalism isn’t the government inserting itself. That’s socialism under the guise of the government using its powers to protect members of society.
@@bronzearmy2645 your right! what I'm saying is, what's to stop greedy rich middle men from inserting themselves and it bumps out small ranches. I'm saying, what if those same greedy guys, insert themselves into government and initiated policy to benefit the big corporations which could bump out the small ranchers. I'm saying, why can't small ranches connect with neighboring farmers to create their own feedlots like back in the day. I'm saying why has government policy made it more lucrative to contract farmers for their ag products which deters them from working with ranchers. I've been looking at it this way, are ranchers going to sell their beef to nearby ranches...NO! Are they hoping to sell their meat to city folks and around the world...YES! its unfair to demonize the word socialism when we "beef feeds the world" and by same token, claim that "capitalism" is great for small business when its greedy money hungary people inserting themselves for their own gain. Thanks
@@gordylocks the reason ranchers and farmers can’t really connect is that the strangle hold is on the Butchering. Government regulations say that to sell meat across state lines, you must have a USDA sticker, which is very expensive to get since you must pay to have a full time inspector on site whenever killing, butchering or packaging is taking place. To sell within your state, you must satisfy the regulations of the health authority in your state; however, even within a state, the major chains won’t sell anything without the USDA sticker. This means, the only way you can sell direct to consumer is if you own part of the animal: quarters for cows, halves for anything else basically. Thus, you can’t realistically butcher in mass for your own clientele since you can’t sell the whole animal. These regulations were done by big government bureaucrats to show voters that they are “protecting” them.
Now, if you’re a butcher like Pilgrims, Cargill, Tyson and etc, then you can slowly buy your own grain farms, ranches, delivery services, etc to vertically integrate; however, a farmer, rancher and trucker cannot creep into your butchering business due to the red tape.
This would never happen in Laissez-faire capitalism; this is big government overreach creating a monopoly by regulating a floor with no ceiling.
You may ask why; the answer is simple: control. It’s much easier to control 3-4 huge corporations than it is to control 30,000-40,000 small time farmers, ranchers, butchers.
WOW!! I AM IMPRESSED!! This is an honest/clear/comphrehensive explanation! The basic buzz-word missing is Subsidy. It trashed little farmers since 1960's. Once they were gone, VOLITILITY reigned!! Wheat took out an uncle. Milk took out my g-parents/dad. Now, it's cycling thru Pork, Beef,...
When we come together and conect, organise we are more powerfull than anybody can imagine
I raise sheep and just expanded to cattle but I no longer approach it as a profitable business. You have to raise them for yourself. Your own food supply just like the old days.
This is what we do also.
Yes, I agree. I'm in Australia and as I look around the place there is no point getting into commercial farming. Growers just don't get paid enough. The self-sufficiency mixed production farm is the only way to survive.
I am planning to get into this. with grass fed animals you should be able to make some money as long as you get rain. I plan to cover my food cost by selling them direct to customers with a local meat locker doing the processing and the customer paying direct.
@@greggmcclelland8430 Talk to others doing it in your area. Theres a lot of variables. Here we don’t have enough processors and the soonest you can get an animal in is 1 year out. Will your customers wait that long? Calculate your winter hay costs. Hay prices are moon rocketing higher. There’s a lot to it newbies don’t always account for. Good luck.
They'll even stop you from selling to locals Too!
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Local sourcing is such a critical issue. So many need to realize this. I live in a rural area in Canada, raise my own poultry for meat and eggs, buy whole local pork and beef and have it locally processed. Grow my own garden. Even in my area I'm amazed that many still just buy everything at the supermarket for convenience. Have to build strong local food chain supply if we are going to survive what is coming.
Yes find local farmers and if you have to co-op it with a few other families and you guys can still get a quarter of a whole cow
lol all animals will die all crops will wither too Good God man what is wrong with you ?
American laws put in place by the big 4 forbid it
This video gives me big-time Ice Age farmer vibes and that is a huge compliment. Thank you for this.
This is such an interesting video because this type of thing happens in a lot of industries. It's happening right now in the trucking industry as well.
Small farmers are needed so support them!!!!!
You don't go broke when you sell cuts retail! There was a time that the only way to make a living farming was to raise commodities and sell to brokers who sold to the markets. In this day and age we have a multitude of ways to market and sell our products at the highest retail prices, without the middlemen. It's time to take back control of the markets so the big guys can't force the little guys out. The little guys will always have the advantage because they are the only ones who can provide pasture to fork, locally raised, truly organic options that buyers can trust!
It's not legal to do what you are saying!!!
@@joethomas9574 Farmers Markets are legal
@@joethomas9574 yes it is
Might be able to trust the product but it doesn't do any good if the buyer can't afford the product. $32.00 to 40.00 for two ribeye's? No.
@@ktimmons50 I sell mine by whole, side, quarter, and eighths. Choice is $4.90/lb and prime is $5.50/lb. If you can't afford that, better stay out of Walmart.
I wish things were different however the reality of it is that even the local processor has the monopoly outside of the big 4. The margins are so thin on selling direct market that it is not worth the fuel, fees and permits. An extra 25$ per sheep (outside of wholesale) does not work for the added energy to get it to the local retail market. Hopefully others have a better situation, but the beef market is not much better. Until more folks wake up and realize that the WEF's future of farm ground is about trading carbon credits and not raising protein all while they are forced to eat Bill Gates' bug protein, things will continue to collapse and consolidate into a corp controlled environment.
The sheep market will be strong for years to come with all the taliban being brought in by the potato.
Thanks for your reporting and interview. Hopefully this systemic crisis can be changed into positive action through observing and working with the land ie Permaculture. Big up the farmers.
Greed makes market prices go up demand keeps them there . When demand drops prices have to go down and the market crashes . You have to refuse to buy it if the price is high
Personally, I buy from local ranchers for beef and pork. I can get custom service and get to choose from grass fed or grass fed/grain finished or pure grain fed. I get to choose, not the buyer at the supermarket chain. Not sure why anyone would do otherwise, other than perhaps convenience. I get comparable prices and much better quality. Any google search for beef will give many places that will take care of your needs.
Such an excellently informative video
If the food animal prices are falling, maby someone ought to tell my local grocery store because the prices there aren't getting any lower.
Exactly Right they Are Screwing Us And Blaming It On the Farmers And Ranchers Where I Live WE HAVE PLENTY OF BEEF HERE !!
All the more reason for farmers to create their own direct to consumer markets. Bigger is not better ! !
local farmers here in Miss are selling direct to public.They are back up with sales.
Thanks for letting us know this. Pretty important.
The biggest challenge in consumers buying direct from the farmer is the lack of independent meat processors
In my area Southwest Ohio the wait time to get a steer into a processor is over a year
In order to grow the direct beef market we need more processing capacity
Same here in Southern Illinois
We can ship it to you
My neighbor thought he was doing a good deal. He had a small herd of mini cattle. He was selling folks a fat calf in his field, and would deliver it to the local Mennonite operated Slaughter plant for the buyer's . He sold one and they processed it. And the next one they told him they where booked for two years. The thing is they have a meat store at their place. And another country store where they sell their own products. They werent gonna let some English in on their markets. So he reduced his herd to 5 head on 160 acres.
Better to sell 5 head profitably than 500 unprofitably.
Ditto Oregon
Just picked up my whole beef from a local producer two days ago. Filled my freezer with local beef.
That will help you now. What about later?
During the 1980’s , I would have 200-250 hogs on feed all year around. By the end of the 80’s hog price had dropped some, and there was a marked shift from small feeders like me, to large feeder barns. The packers wanted a fixed steady number of hogs to slaughter each week, and not have to just rely on what was available at auction. So the packers began to offer contract price to the large scale hog barns that could supply 100 or more hogs each week,52 weeks of the year, and give them a premium over weekly auction price. Needless to say these contracts were picked up quickly by larger operations. And once the weekly auction had begun to die out, and smaller feeders had left the industry. The value of the price in the contracts offered to the large farmers began to slip too. Many hog farms went out of business, changed ownership or just went flat broke. While there used to be lots of farms in our county with a feeder barn or a farrowing operation, there are now none !!
As for myself, I was also milking cows at the same time as feeding pigs, and I quit the pigs half way through 1987, and just milked more cows. Best decision I ever made.
Yep...We raised hogs about 300-400 per year..5-6 hog lots scattered around various farms..Ground feed every other day..
I started raising pigs a couple years ago and the amount of piglets for sale independently now is easily 3x the amount of when I started looking for piglets. The grain sales have greatly increased and I think that consumers have noticed the decrease in quality that grocery store pork has to offer.
A rule of thumb, when grain is high hogs are cheap, when grain is cheap hog will be high.
@@radamson1 sounds right from what I’ve seen
@@jeffhuntley2921 which means if you can make it through high grain and low hog prices you’ll do very well when it turns around
@@martinclark6952 I’ve been learning as I go and thankfully its been good. Had a few litters and it’s already paying for itself. Plus homemade bacon is awesome
@@jeffhuntley2921 that’s awesome! I’m just starting off and by my calculations it looked like it would be rather profitable. Glad to hear someone else making it work. Can’t wait for homemade bacon!!!
Thanks for this info from all of y'all. I quit hogs shortly after high school. Feed bills were too big. That was 40 years ago. Kept my ear to the ground and follow agricultural news. Went to trucking. More than happy quit this 20 years ago. Small operators of almost any type of entity are becoming fewer every day. Our country was designed for a small government with the population observing governed by the people. This concept is obsolete, out dated and not fashionable any more. Ever the youngest generation is expecting everything free. Economic concepts are collapsing and the children of today have no idea of how our Congress thinks going further in debt and printing more money is our saving grace because the budget is beyond our credit limit.
You say that the younger generation wants everything for free, do you not realize it was your generation that started this mess?
The boomer crowd will not go away. Pelosi, Biden, Schumer, Fauci are all within the worst generation to ever live. It seems like all boomers do now is complain and create problems. The whole 80s-90s “conservative” movement was a disaster that let the left do as they please while everyone jumped to the moronic libertarian train. Now young conservatives like myself reject this mess you guys have created. We actually give a damn about the culture and our way of life, boomers literally only care about their government retirement checks we can’t even afford to pay for.
Finisher market is still here for hogs. Larger companies are far more efficient at producing meat. The way to beat this would be a CO-OP system similar to what we do for grain. If smaller farmers can market and pack together we would crush larger integration.
If you see the thumbs up, the majority agree. Democrats are attempting to buy young generation votes with gifting everything under the sun. Texas is the most successful of all states economically with no income tax, sun set laws and rainy day funds. True with support Americans and attempt to keep out illegal imagration that cost tax payers. I do feel sorry for Thier situation but why should I be paying for free benefits to non residents? Again buying votes . Old school economics believe support oneself first. Earn your way by working with morals, values, ethics and principles. My family imagrated during pototoe blight and endenture farmed to pay for passage. Farming is an occupation many immigrants could do to survive and progress. Are they? Where?
@@terryanderson4366 democrats have been buying votes and even people for 200 plus years. Conservatives decided to give up the fight on monetary policy. FDR and Wilson were terrible about government handouts. You’re historically illiterate if you claim that all this regulation and handouts started 20 years ago. If you start a bad action, you are far more guilty then the person who maintains that action.
Republicans used to support illegal immigration not all that long ago. It is out of control now and the border needs to be shut down.
If your political opponent saws grow and you say shrink, you will not win. The greatest generation and boomers started this spending spree.
Politicians know that boomers would rather see the country on fire then give away their social security. Politicians know it so well it’s either make or brake for a politician on both sides, you can’t even mention scrapping the program.
Wait till the new IRS starts desroying it even more.Might kick off some serious skirmishes..
in new zealand most companies have started labelling their pork products
made from pork from any of these countries - denmark, usa, germany, poland, finland etc
Add that here in Wisconsin our Dept of Ag is in the back pocket of big pork, especially when Walker was in. We had a decent market still until a couple of years ago when new regs cut the small guy all up, then with covid, they took all our slaugtherhouse space from the direct market guys. Now you have 2-3 years waits for space.
Pork here in the Philippines is around $2.00 a pound live weight
Yes, buy from the farmers, directly.. As soo you help them and you are helping you the buyer.. 👍
great job on this video!
Great video! I now understand what is really going on.
Thank you for the great work.
Thanks for your reporting, very eye opening.
The other really important point for the consumer is that the meat is MUCH higher in quality. We buy 1/4 to 1/2 a side every year and it blows away our super market bought stuff.
You pretty much won't be able to buy that meat from your small arbitrary because the farmers will want to keep the meat for their own families.
I found this channel and started watching and learning. God Bless you Farmers ! Keep up the GOOD FIGHT !
The biggest problem in my area East Texas is what few slaughter houses are booked up for over a year !
some of ours in va-tn are booked through 2024
Is this an ageing infrastructure issue?
Same in south Arkansas
The same in Michigan's UP and in SE Ohio. A steer would be old enough to vote before you got him butchered
@@MrBurntfinger Is that who was voting in the last election?
I'll be curious to watch when you do a similar episode on the lamb biz.
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Sad but very accurate - thank you for the good coverage!
It isn't just hogs, and cattle that the packers have taken over. The first meat animals were the poultry producers. They figured out that they could produce chickens and turkeys on a predictable schedule and control feed costs by purchasing feed grains on the futures market so they controlled cost and supply. They then applied the same thing to hogs. Cattle are the next to go through the same process. The big thing will be them deciding to buy cattle and start the breeding to finish and processing chain.
But isn't that going to come unstuck because cattle can't be confined to pens like pigs and poultry?
I really like your content, I plan on getting some land here in West Texas next year and getting it set up for livestock, a garden and a butchering area so that the wife and I can help to take care of the church congregation, and the over flow will be sold. I know that the heat and the drought, has been tough but firmly believe in prayer, and listening to Papa when he gives his responses. We do have a cold front coming with some precipitation! To finish Aug 2022 out! Hallelujah!
Good luck with that. God is currently restoring man’s commanded diet back to Genesis 1:29 as prophesied. Your vain resistance is futile.
The tribulations are intensifying, wake up folks.
This is why;
“I give you all of the fruits of the trees with their seeds within, this shall be your - > Meat. < -
I give you all the plants on the earth that produce seeds. This shall be your food. And to all the
beasts of the earth, to all the fowl of the air, to every thing that creeps upon the earth with the
breath of life within it’s nostrils I give all green grasses.”
- Genesis 1:29
Yeshua Condemns Animal Sacrifice
Shows It To Be From Satan And Not God
And after many other things were said and done, Yeshua returned to the city, and looked upon the innocent creatures of God awaiting slaughter as daily sacrifice in the temple at Jerusalem. And he said unto his disciples and many people that had gathered around them, for everywhere Yeshua went, crowds surrounded him to listen and hear his wisdom:
"Behold these poor innocent beasts of the earth, they harm not themselves, nor man, nor any other creature. Yea, they eat the green vegetation of the field, sinless and without blood guilt they have remained since their creation. Faithful and obedient they remain to their masters in hope that Humane feelings be their reward in life, but instead they receive every hurt and death at man's hand.
Lo, the lust of ignorant and stubborn man brings them down in death and much blood, that men may satisfy the lusts of their own flesh. Such men have hearts, but know them not, for they have become like their idols of stone, hard and vain.
"Woe to such blasphemers who reject the Holy Law of the sacredness of all life! Woe to such blind guides with hearts of stone, who use their eyes to lust after things they need not nor are lawful unto them!
For they transgress the Law of Moses to maketh themselves fat on the flesh and blood of innocent victims, that God commanded them not even since the beginning! Woe be unto this very temple built by human hands, for the Temple made without hands is here in their midst, but they see or hear not!
"For I come to end all sacrifice and bloodshed and tell ye, if ye cease not offering and eating of flesh and blood, the wrath of God shall not cease from you, even as it came to your fathers in the wilderness, who under Moses lusted for flesh, which they ate to their fulness. and were filled with rottenness, and the plague consumed them according to their evil desires.
"For I say unto you, Though ye be gathered together in my bosom, if ye keep not all my commandments, I will cast you forth. For if ye keep not the lesser revelations, who, ask, shall give you the greater ones? For since time immemorial, God hath at no time requireth animal or human sacrifices, lest He be inferior to the Holy Law! Nor hast God permitted man or beast to devour one another for food, lest He be ignorant of His own Love! How then, do ye eat flesh and give sacrifices of blood according to the law of Humane Love.
"Ye know not the True God, but worship the perverted god of thy world, even Satan the one and same father of the sword and bloodshed. For by this one, death entered into the world and death spread to all things, for all things are in bondage as slaves to the master of the lie. But I come to set free those imprisoned by chains of sin, and give forth my Holy Law again unto the nations that they may know the only True God of love and mercy. For my God above suffereth sin and error of men much, lest He put a swift end to the vanity of the world and cut off His Elect Seed.
"Be ye faithful to the complete law of God, lest ye stumble in thy evil ways and meet death as thy final reward. For he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much, and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. So it is with the Holy Law, for the first truths you keepeth not, but seek after the greater. Seek ye first the laws of God and all else will be revealed unto you. No man may digest the solid food of God, lest first he taketh of the liquid, for my law is the water of life. Drink ye, like pure water, and all other mysteries of God will be opened to you, and then ye will know the True God and His Good Works.
"For ye desire to serve two masters, one good, one evil, and cannot, for either ye will hate the one, and love the other, or else ye will stick to the one and despise the other.... Know ye then, thy true root, whether ye be good or evil, and then ye shall know the truth that giveth life and health. Ye cannot serve both the True God and Satan, for the True God is All Love and His Holy Law leadeth to All Life, there being no death in His Order and Household.
"But know ye that Satan is the god of death and bloodshed and also giveth to the people many unholy laws that the True God hateth and condemneth. Know ye not that the two cannot mix, but the inferior shall be done away with, for the Holy Law has served as judge over the living and the dead since the days of Adam and Eve. Hence, ye are they which justify yourselves before men and God, for God knoweth your hearts and your ways.
"For know ye, that the same Law and the Prophets were here until John and changeth not. Yea, even before the foundations of thy earth were laid, the Law was and always will be ... Yea, it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle of the Law to fail its purpose. Keep ye the Law, then, and all other things will be added unto you, for there is no thing above the Law, and any thing which comes below the Law, is not perfect nor complete, nor is it from the True God of Love."
And the Pharisees heard all these sayings of Yeshua, and observed that he was speaking of them, for they lived according to doctrines of men and of the devil, and not the true law Moses hath given them in the wilderness, they being responsible for the lawlessness of animal sacrifice and flesh eating among Israel.
God’s words as spoken by his Prophets.
“For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
- Jeremiah 7:22
“How can we say we are wise and that the law of Moses is with us? Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies. Behold! The hand of the scribe has turned it into a lie.”
- Jeremiah 8:8
“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot have wickedness with celebration; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;”
- Isaiah 1:11-16
“Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.”
- Isaiah 43:23
“He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.”
- Isaiah 66:3
“For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.”
- Hosea 6:6-8
“With what shall I come before the Lord
and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.”
- Micah 6:6-8
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Mathew 12:7
“But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless”
If you knew that mercy was what was desired rather than sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless creatures of God.
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You are doing an absolutely great job with your videos.
We need to develop relationships with butchers and market to friends family and word of mouth.
I've been buying Beef (by the quarter or half steer), Chicken and pork (buy the cut) from local farmers for about 7 years now. I live in Massachusetts. If we can do it here, I imagine you could do that in most states. Also get my vegetable from a local farmer through a CSA farm share. Just picked up my weekly allotment this afternoon.
they gonne ban that. saying its not safe food if not controled by FDA.
@@hdj81Vlimited Hopefully not. The meat is processed in government inspected and approved facilities. But they may make it harder to get approval.
@@hdj81Vlimited maybe try but these monopolies never succeed, even if they grow into a totalitarian dsytopa
Thanks for the eatwild link.
I've had several calves from the feedlot live. I bottle fed them to around 150 lbs then l cut down the milk and feed hay (grass) for the calves. They still keep growing, and l sold them to farmers for replacement calves. The rest l raised to eat.
The best way to keep the market independant is by making it easy for people to start a slaughter house or a farm. All you have to do is eliminate lots of rules.
We were a small producer(15 to 20 head a year) until a few years ago when we could not take out cattle to the nearest auction house, across state line. Lost money that year and did not restock. Sold the farm this last year. Good Luck to anyone trying to make a little on the side raising livestock.
Here in Louisiana the State is going after the small cattle "ranchers".
They are going after people who sell cattle to individuals or a group on shares who buy and get the animal butchered by the cattle seller or family member who does the butchering. It revolves around a tax issue concerning these types of transactions and the stop is stopping the sales and preventing a way to even pay a tax if seller/buyer wanted to do that. It's crazy!
@@denp54z I am in Louisiana. Our place was just north of Vivian. I did not know about this part. State killing off the small timers. Sad. Soon it will only be large mega farms and people who do homesteading.
@@denp54z Damned corporate thugs!
@@dhollongstreet4725 I was in Vivian a few times last weekend. I wanted to stop at the old Dairy Queen, Mexican restaurant, but it was too late or too early. Helping someone move from Karnack.
The problem with Louisiana is John Bell, I live in SW AR and a republican governor and no problems. I'm from Benton, a few miles past cypress. We've had cows every day of my life. I've never sold to an individual, mainly because nobody here can seem to think that far ahead. A butcher here has built a shop at his house. I know a few has sold to him. But he pays not when you leave it. Pay is after he hangs it in the cooler, based on that weight. I don't like that. I don't like getting all these cattle up and run through, just to get him one or two. I don't like hauling one or two over there. I don't like getting a definite maybe on my money. Which, like I said, never personally sold to him. But, I'm past 50, and have learned what I don't like. I loaded last Wednesday and sent to Hope. I rarely do Texarkana. Better get all your sellable cattle sold before mid September. Bad wind has been blowing.
Top 10 murder cities in the USA, Louisiana has two of the top ten.
Breaks my heart how big AG treats these beautiful creatures.
Small farms are the only way.
Great comments and a very informative channel.
Thank you.
I now am starting to raise protein on my property. Retired at 50. Might as well help my kids and grandchildren out.
I plan to use my operation as a model for them.
They want the same but inflation has hindered their growth.
Definitely doing rabbits, chicken, lambs and hogs.
I’m a independent hog producer, have been for 45 years. Your description of the 1998 crash needs tweaking. What happened starting in the early nineties was many vertically integrated producers (some packers, some not) were finding success with their new systems they had established. New facilities, better genetics, overall better management gave them a production edge over the smaller family farm. They had better access to capital which in turn allowed them to build state of the art facilities, which allowed them to have better production. They were profitable and had a lower break even , so they continued to grow and gain market share. Which brings us to 1998, when production was brought to a head. Simply put, supply out striped demand. There was more hogs coming to market than the packers had space to kill. I remember that you might have to wait a couple of weeks to book your spot. Of course in turn the packers didn’t need to bid, which drove the prices down to near zero. We survived because we forwarded priced our hogs so we didn’t get those stinking prices. But many producers didn’t and they lost their shirts. A lot of good neighbours went out of business which was sad, but in reality they couldn’t compete, and in any business you must remain competitive.
how do you operate when the live animal hasn't even doubled in price at the same time your equipment,price of fuel,oil,taxes and labor have tripled in price,simple economics,the animals basics are not that different from before,so either you are stealing feed,or not paying your bills,so quit lying to the public to make you appear smart
@@threesisterstrucking8044 My barns are payed off, I grow my own feed grain, we make are own feed. I always use forward pricing on both my inputs and my Hog prices.
Maybe you should used a calculator so you know what the real costs are before you accuse someone of lying!
I bet those "better genetics" depend on a highly controlled environment and a specific diet to remain competitive. As we move deeper into Great Depression 2 pigs that do better on open pasture might do better.
@@reswobiandreaming3644 your not going to feed the country with pasture raised pigs. I’ve got a question for you…how many hogs do you finish per year on pasture?
She’s a little full of herself.
Looks like the big plan is coming together
Mark Shepard went permaculture organic and joined the Organic Valley co-op. OVC has expanded a lot and been a great counter to the 7 mega-corporation conglomerates' hold on the market. If we can get more freight train lines built in the west to interconnect more it will give more economic power to the independent ag community.
Also-- the independent ag community needs to learn more about soil hydrology and healthy soil biota for flood and drought mitigation. A lot of ignorance out there that is costing farmers money.
@WhatsAp☩⓵⓶⓼⓵⓺⓵⓺⓻⓶⓹⓺ We finally weaponized the DOJ against the evil Republicans. They must immediately be thrown into "reeducation" camps so we can take their children and teach them that gender doesn't matter. Republicans are terrorist that work for Russia and will be labeled as such!
The IRS can now take their property so we can donate to the Federal government! Public execution's for all of the traitors! If you try to vote, we have Dominion machines to ensure the vote is counted the correct way.
Donnie and the rest of you its over. We have all of the media controlled, the tech platforms censoring you, and now we can raid you with impunity. We can change the definition to suit our agenda and you WILL submit to the New Liberal World Order.
Nothing will stop us!
MUAHAHAHA
The freight trains will never happen again.
@@soyoucametosee7860
Freight trains are still strongly in use. The problem is that some have exclusivity contracts that tie up their use for twenty years into the future. These monopolies to block out independent food producers are under the control of mega corporate conglomerates. Mark Shepard is one of the people that signed on early with Organic Farms and can tell you a lot about the protectionism that shuts out the independents, even Organic Valley producers...
Truckers are having one hell of a time..
@@davehughesfarm7983
Truckers are underpaid, overgouged. Think a train system might actually help. Instead of being forced onto the long haul road they could be the part that provides more local connectivity and flexibility within their own communities. This leaves truckers less at the whim of mega corporate conglomerates, and instead under allows more natural forces, and profitability. It would certainly reduce the strain from the MCC gasoline monopolies.
More rail would certainly create more localized manufacturing opportunities such as modular housing which could meet many simultaneous demands for more hauling work, housing, localized employment, etc.
I'm seeing what's happening to the American farmer and the American trucker, and it just fills me with an absolute rage.
Nothing to do but quit playing their game. Go Galt.
@@thecollectoronthecorner7061 the only way to do that is to quit electing the politicians they buy for us
I'm pulling my cattle off the market, staying small, and only want to sell direct.
@@rickcleveland5326 We are never ever going to vote out way out of this mess.
Its marxism/technocracy tryna come for us all. Resist. Never kneel
Farmers and Ranchers need to make their own market house and processing services. Push out the big corporations. $7/pound for beef is outrageous when you only get minimum income. Make your money on bulk.
Theres a very old abattior down the road from me it closed in the 80's along with communities. I find it disturbing to see how things have changed in the name of greed. I support the family farm and contribute back to my local communities by buying local as much as possible. God Bless
So the hog market followed chickens. Local farmers and local processors. Thanks for this information and asareness.
Exactly what the Americans did to Canada in 2004 in the Beef Market... destroyed the lively hood of every Canadian beef farmer. It has never recovered and has followed the trend of beef farmers average age getting into the mid 60's. Thanks for talking candidly about farming, just know the 1998 crash in hogs was leveraged by beef for some until 2004...
Canada did the same to the us dairy farms
@@brent9393 Can you be more specific? I get American TV channels...I know they were claiming Canada's closed border killed the dairy in the Midwest...but we drove thru Arizona and saw the many mega farms where those cows moved to over the last 10 years. They were looking for immigrant labor to compete with California who did it 20 years ago...and they took out family dairy in the process.
Good, America first. Couldn’t give a damn about Canadian beef. I’d much rather our farms make profit than Canada’s stay in business.
Americans have a duty to our people at the expense of other countries.
Love your videos. With this information we have been setting up ourselves to not only provide meat birds and goats for sale in our local town. I’ve been trying to encourage everyone to know where your food comes from. Not what plant or big business but your local farmer and gardeners
I went through this in 1997 hogs went from 40 cents to 7 cents Christmas 1997...By Feb they were back to 20 cents..Could have made a killing buying every hog at every sale barn..
Well with prices what they are I think if a local farmer can produce any food item at a fair price it'll sell. If they want or expect an atrocious amount they'll never have a market. But that's just my humble opinion. This is the first year on my land building my house now and I'd like to think I can sell affordable delicious food to others at a fair market price actually less than that cause grocery stores are insanely priced right now. To me 4 dollars a lb for a quarter or half of any animal is fair at todays prices.
Smithfield (hog processor) based in NC was bought out by the Chinese several years ago, BTW.
Makes me puke..Them bastards own 40,000 acres in N. Missouri..Its so so so wrong...
Key phrase from the entire video “due to the regulations”!
What? You don’t like regulation?
You’re a red hat sheeple?
Matt Stroller did an article on this topic on his substack. His substack is called "BIG", where he talks about monopolies and anti-trust law. For those of you interested in another perspective on this topic.
Stay warm, y'all.
We're about to get a bad winter storm here in Georgia. The wind is roaring tonight.
I put all of my chickens in their coops except for one room in the trees in the woods.
It'll be raining in the morning when I open the doors for them to go out so I have my coat by the door so I'm not drenched.
Night night everyone.
So with all the things going on in the world ...the govt has decided that this man and ones before him have taken care of his community with NO issues for generations and they want to persecute him and demand he keep a lawyer who is not doing his job and no one has stepped up to help this man?? This is a sad sad time and this govt has really run off the rails.
I enjoyed your video. I’m supporting my local farmers and ranchers.
Just gotta love how everyone knows that these guys ate doing this but nothing can be done about it ?????
Having a business to a scale that allows your per unit cost to be competitive with major players in your industry is the only way to survive. If you are not of sufficient size you will need to find means to cut cost. Used reliable equipment, innovative processes, it is not for the faint of heart or the lazy. Selling direct locally a superior product at a lower price. Good way to carve yourself a niche. The big boys will sell at a loss if you are to succesful.
Very good report little lady thank you
I’ll bet we don’t get discount pork!
Nicely done
The current beef price is more or less large amounts being sold early because of this forced drought on many cattle areas.
I used to buy meat from local farmers when I lived in WA State. But I recently moved and haven't found any local farmers to buy meat from. I went to the eatwild website, and the two ranchers closest to me have pretty high prices... like around $8.50 per lb for hamburger and almost $20 per lb for new york steak. Since there is no middle man, it seems like the cost would be on par or less than the prices at the grocery store. Anyhow, I'm retired and on a fixed income, so I guess the factory farm meat at the grocery store will have to do.
Check with craigslist, feed stores, keep asking around!!
it all comes down to the rules and regulations from the FDA that allows these monopolies to thwart any competition. they make it impossible to start a business to compete with them
Contrary to some of the political rhetoric, big corporations love regulation! It's the way that they can lock out the ability of a new competitor to show up who can't afford to go through all the government hoops
@@ArtStoneUS exactly!
It's getting crazy. We by our lamb from a local rancher who sells at the local farmers market. We grow our own vegetables on our 5 acres. Thought about buying our own beef from a small rancher and processor just down the road.
Very good video and this is happening now in the Philippines where the price of pig feed is going up and the selling price of pigs is going down, it's a no win situation for small pig farmers. if nothing is done the Philippines will keep importing pork instead of getting pork locally.
When the price Crashed all the Farmers just let the pigs go around here and these are the wild hogs that we have running around today
we did the cow calf operating and we had pasture ground , it got competitive on the pastures and land values went up along with pasture values, we even had to fight off people wanting bicycle trails and recreational trails and Recreation, I don't know where the people think they're going to get their food. My feeling is once they get control the food they can charge whatever they want, and what they're being fed you wouldn't feed a dead rat. I know what is in some of that feed and it's unbelievable. I would love to get my pasture up and going again but it would take me 10 years to pay for all the fences that needs to be upgraded and trim out trees along with creek Crossings, there's a lot of work involved and nobody will help. I have the fever but I think I'll get over it. There's not the drought relief or government assistance for Cattlemen like there is for row crops or grains, when you go through hardship with cattle you're on your own .
Bible says famine.
We finally weaponized the DOJ against the evil Republicans. They must immediately be thrown into "reeducation" camps so we can take their children and teach them that gender doesn't matter. Republicans are terrorist that work for Russia and will be labeled as such!
The IRS can now take their property so we can donate to the Federal government! Public execution's for all of the traitors! If you try to vote, we have Dominion machines to ensure the vote is counted the correct way.
Donnie and the rest of you its over. We have all of the media controlled, the tech platforms censoring you, and now we can raid you with impunity. We can change the definition to suit our agenda and you WILL submit to the New Liberal World Order.
Nothing will stop us!
MUAHAHAHA
How many acres do you have to clear
Them cows and a few free donkeys will clear it. It shouldn't take more than a few days to fix the fence. I just fenced 100 acres. Next is 65 acres, then a 40. Both places have no fence.
The way I see it, every sector of agriculture is going to face a common scenario of sorts of the processor trying to vertically integrate their supply chain.
Unfortunately, because of cities, consumer based change just won't work here. We need the law to change. We need farmers to be able to slaughter their own animals and sell to the consumer with an unstated legal waiver that accepts the risk. Until that happens, small farms will remain largely uncompetitive.
Great video, thanks for the good research and background keep it coming!
the uk , were have the same problem
Big business and our politicians have allowed 4 companies to dominate the meat packing industry- Cargill, Tyson Foods, JBS and National Beef Packing. Now we as consumers suffer the consequences.
Farmer owned processing taking market share away from the big 4 is the only way.
My family and I only buy both from a local producer. Best beef and pork around. Kroger, Walmart, etc. isn't even close to either price, nor quality. Period. I'm keeping my money local, and we're eating a healthier product. 🐂🐖
Thank you and your sharp business mind for all of this, these huge corporate interests are trainwrecking everything for farmers and consumers. I don’t eat land-based meat, but when I shop for gifts for friends, meat to bring to share at a bbq, or for dairy for myself, there are several local farms I am loyal to. Good people, quality products. Thanks again.
There is another thing.....
Most producers cannot afford to glean market intelligence on supply and demand.
The folks at the Futures Market do.
But then , those Commdity Speculators can afford to have a Bloomberg terminal at their fingertips.
My perception is that most estimates on the marketplace are merely guess work.
That and efficiencies of scale and leverage gained by packers.
Farm to fork sounds like a nifty idea , but it does not meet the demands for urbanites. Even if you ship your cuts through Amazon or Fedex.
At best, some restaurateur who sources it's cuts by a local purveyor.
And we all know how wholesale meat markets have been disappearing thanks to Real Estate Gentrification.
Metro area per capita meat consumption is what makes or breaks what meat purveyors can deliver.
I tried. You cannot make a profit on a 30 head herd selling to the big three processors. I make money selling to the consumer, but most of them do not have a freezer big enough to store 250 pounds of meat. Add the fact that there are so few small processors, and those that do exist are saddled with overly burdensome government regulations.
The processors control the price they pay, and the sale price. Three companies monopolize 90% of the beef market. There is no such thing as enforcement or policing against monopolistic practices. Bigger companies make bigger political contributions. It is a form of "protection" money.
I agree with Mr Wall, and I will add, in my opinion, the packers one day will own large portion of the cow’s. The rancher will still own the ground and just be a laborer, he will be paid just enough by the packer for a live calf the he can grow and send to the feedlot. He will eventually be beat down to the point of giving up. In turn the feedlots and packers will eventually own enough of the the ranches to squeeze out the rest.
Nope. Agriculture done right is the only future, after agriculture done wrong is razed.
But what happens when the ranchers decide to quit? I doubt the packers and the feedlot mob know how to breed cattle.
Note too that Chyna and Bill Gates and others are buying up farm land as fast as possible to further their agendas.
@@grassroot011 crash the land market with drought so that it's affordable, then turn off the HAARP; but God doesnt let it get that far. Micah 2:2
Does Micah 2:4 refer to "Let's Go, Brandon"?
@@grassroot011 They can buy up as much arable land as they like but ultimately that's a piece of paper. Whoever occupies the space and uses it will determine who "owns" the land. I think our current system of "ownership" might collapse in the near future because it is based on debt which means that no-one really "owns" property.
It's difficult to compete when their is collusion between big producers and big processors.
We need all Americans to start going to their local farmer or rancher for their beef because of the importing of beef
The beef market has been corrupted. THe processing plants (Unions) were sent home during the 'planned-demic' with pay. and a lot of them are not back to work. In Texas and Arizona the price on the hoof is right at $.90.
I agree 2020 was a wake up call. My family actually did something quit our jobs sold our house and bought a small ranch in Oklahoma. It's been a hard adjustment, plenty of obstacles but I believe in God's plan for us. Im afraid most Americans will not see the warning signs unfortunately.
We did that 8 years ago and never looked back. If you aren’t in a position to raise and grow your own food by now you’re too late.
When the pig packers put growers under contract, why didn't this reduce both the growers at auction along with the packers?
All the small growers were still there. But the packers didn't need to be there any more.
Corbett wall has a great report and speaks a lot truth.
We were involved in the 1998 pork market crash.had 700 fat hogs ready to go and had to take 7to 8 cents a pound.we lost 70,000 dollars of our equity over this minipulated disaster.i agree with corbitt.they have been trying vigorously to do the same with the cattle.
Spot on!! Thank you!!!!
I believe that the beef packers have already out-done their achievements in the pork market. The packers at least pay the hog producers for their labor, while they have gotten the beef producer to sell their product below the cost of production and subsidize it with their off farm income and government subsidies. IMHO most producers have no idea what’s coming. They believe that higher prices will lead to profit but they don’t factor in even higher input costs.
If you want to make a million dollars in livestock start with 3 million dollars and you'll end up being left with less than a million dollars if not bankrupt!!!
You’re right, they are clueless. Most listen to people like corbit and believe they should be happy taking below production pricing. Every show corbit does he’s telling them how great they are doing by taking $1.20 or similar per pound live weight. He knows what he’s doing.
Free enterprise abolished ; foreign investment interests govt controls socialist programs instigated by the fascist regimes, how can any farmer rancher small business owners town or country possibly stay in business
by their design and yet the one man totally absolutely 100% for All -Any American - Donald Trump AND LOOK WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO FREE ENTERPRISE AND TRUE LEADERS
Who are for "we the people" don't vote a political party vote for the true patriots who are for you and your businesses
Here is what I see as the problem
1. (This one is overall for business) we rely on/support money over trade and barter
2. Every ranch should be set up self sufficiently ( this includes cutting out every middle man, butcher it yourself, sell or use the leather, have meat freezers, work with your neighbors to migrate the cattle, have a small refinery to turn the hooves into glue and make the bones into broth, waste nothing from the beef, make soap from the fat)
3. Part of keeping the land/cattle healthy is migrating them just like the buffalo did, if you try to keep them in one area they die as the gentleman was saying, but they have to move with the season
4. The ranchers should own there own auctions ( if they prefer to do it that way). My way, you may not get as rich but you will be have more stability
With the ranch being self sufficient you need to have the means and the store to move the cattle as well as sell it and to work with every one around you ( this piggy backs off of being self sufficient, it is more accurately being community efficient when running a business) if we have a sufficient and effective community of ranchers we do not need a cattleman's association. For example if you neighbor owns pigs the other woodland etc you work together and sell from your own general store, I would be against someone who is not part of the ranchers working because it would be simple for him to cut you out, lastly get involved with the lawmaking and outvote/overturn monopoly laws and draft bills that are structured according to maintaining your business and vote them in.
I sincerely believe the barter system would work great in this area because it is not controlled by money which when we break it down always appears to be part of the problem
I hope that you find a group of people to help you fulfill what you're talking about. The average person is so beaten down with so many excuses that they're too destroyed to do what you're talking about. Make your ministry to the up and outers not the down and outers life is too short
@@peterjones3226Much appreciated. I have already started in my state. You are correct, I told one man that most people do not have the desire to fight for good results. Sadly but truthfully he told me you are absolutely right because "I" am the same way. I told him it wasn't too late to change and do things the right way instead of the way he had been. I hope you take a stab at it this way as well.
@@DedicatedSpartan I found that you want to live near an Amish community to capitalize on their individual business models. They are very dedicated to their businesses and are trained in entrepreneurship. A 36-year-old man or woman has already sold out on their dream and is already set on their path very limited lateral movements can be achieved with that group.. once you get headed in that direction with all that infrastructure you will frighten many people and silence the rest because they will realize there are two old and don't have enough cash flow to get anywhere in the next 10 years. Invest in 20 and 30 year olds on these major projects my 70 and 80 year old friends cannot help me on my lumber dryer and Sawmill to a reasonable degree
Father always told me they were going to do this.