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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
98.3 KXDJ Radio asks what can the Trump administration do to help agricultural producers?
Listen to the KXDJ Radio Interview with Mike Callicrate by clicking here How did we lose our markets? See the following editorial from 2013: It’s Still Called Stealing By Mike Callicrate | April 5,2013 Grade and yield buying used to … Continue reading
Crop Statisticans, 1908
Send them to prison Texas Union Would Adopt Extreme Measures Against Crop Statisticans The Farmer’s Union of Reagan, Texas, has taken an advanced stand on the question of crop statistics by adopting the following resolution: Resolved, That Reagan Union No. … Continue reading
NY Times: At Hamburger Central, Antibiotics for Cattle That Aren’t Sick
Many industrial feedlots see routine use of antibiotics as essential. Some cattlemen disagree, calling them “performance enhancing drugs.” By Danny Hakim | March 23, 2018 Ben Holland holds a Mason jar, tilting it slightly to show the powdery 90 milligrams … Continue reading
Two Chief Economic Classes in America, 1906-2018
Must Collectively Own the Machines We quote from a statement made by J. G. Stokes, the young millionaire, who for several years has been devoting his talent and means to advance the interest of the industrial and producing class. In … Continue reading
Tariff Uproar
When did it become so wrong to protect something of value? Now that everyone is talking about the tariffs President Trump ordered on imported steel and aluminum earlier this month, we must also question why the United States continues to … Continue reading
