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“The money and political power of Wall Street has stolen America’s food system, bankrupted our farmers and ranchers, mined our soils, polluted our environment, wasted our precious water, and left us with expensive industrially produced food that makes us sick.” – Occupy Wall Street Food Day, December 2011 -
Industrial Agriculture and Urban Sprawl – A model of growth that’s made to fail. -
Ranching Reboot Episode 4, Mike Callicrate “It’s time for a third revolution against monopolies”
Above: Ranching Reboot – Episode 4 – Mike Callicrate, owner of Ranch Foods Direct, sat down with us to talk about all manner of things from cattle markets, to public food spaces, the Bander, his feedlot and the pathway he built to market.
He shares valuable lessons learned from fighting against the commodity production system and how he’s built his own pathway to the consumer.
We talk about small community slaughter plants and public meat spaces and what that could look like going in to the future. We discuss environmental challenges, the food police and what it means when a Dollar General comes to town.
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- This Cattleman's Got A Beef
Photo: Sean Cayton - 2003People producing good food from happy animals, while improving the environment, shouldn’t have to fear the government.
Photo above featured in a 2003 article: This cattleman's got a beef, Mike Callicrate and Ranch Foods Direct take on the big meat packersby Kathryn Eastburn
Author Archives: Mike Callicrate
A fence can tell you a lot about an outfit.
April 1, 2010 Thirty-five years ago I learned that fences didn’t have to be new to be tight and straight, keeping our cattle in the pasture and our neighbors happy. In 2004, a jury in Montgomery, Alabama, was presented with … Continue reading
Montana Farmer’s Union Producer Annual Conference (2021) – Building a profitable and rewarding pathway to the consumer
View the slideshow directly here: Links from slideshow listed below: Slide 7: Link 1: https://farmactionalliance.org/cargillfoodfraud/?emci=989ff322-6d2e-eb11-9fb4-00155d43b2cd&emdi=4869c4b9-6f2e-eb11-9fb4-00155d43b2cd&ceid=13997041 Link 2: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2016/04/09/real-world-ranch-restoration/ Link 3: https://www.cargill.com/story/cargill-aims-to-beefup-sustainability Slide 8: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2009/06/04/how-mavericks-became-zombies/ Slide 12: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2020/10/15/the-four-recommendations-of-the-federal-trade-commission-regarding-the-meat-packing-industry/ Slide 13: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2018/02/08/the-husbandman-that-laboreth-must-be-the-first-partaker-of-the-fruits/ See John Ikerd’s Community Food Utilities
Which Shall Rule — Wealth or Man?
1873 was a decade after President Lincoln’s warning about concentrated power.
Monopolies Create Hard Times
In Monopolies Suck, Sally Hubbard, the director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, shows us the seven ways big corporations rule our lives—and what must be done to stop them. Monopolies make your life harder every day, but you may … Continue reading
The Secret at 1400 Independence Avenue
We have almost accomplished in 245 years what took the Romans nearly 1,000 years – losing a republic. Like our farmers and ranchers, Saint Paul’s Husbandman quote, inscribed above the entrance to the USDA headquarters in Washington DC has become … Continue reading
