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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
Grandmother’s quilt, Grandfather’s ghost
Farm and Food File by Alan Guebert | Dec. 17, 2017 A slightly frayed, white and peach-trimmed quilt now lays unfolded on one of our spare beds. Twenty-nine of its 30 squares each feature the carefully stitched name of one … Continue reading
Why the Wrangle over Country of Origin Labeling Matters
We must restore our sovereignty to conduct our collective lives as we see fit. By Gilles Stockton October 27, 2017 The wrangle over Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) has gone on for over twenty years. After it was finally passed … Continue reading
Ricker on Government Regulation, 1938
Visitor From St. Paul – A.W. Ricker, Editor Farmers Union Herald Speaks Over Station KSAL A.W. Ricker, editor of The Farmers Union Herald, St. Paul, Minn., visited the state Farmers Union office in Salina, January 21. That evening he made … Continue reading
What Other Men Think of Farming
“The first and most respectable of all arts is agriculture.”-Roseau. “Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor to man.”-Daniel Webster. “Of all occupations from which gain is secured, there is none better … Continue reading
Flimflam men are still faithfully serving corporate interests.
(The letter published below is written by A.M. Kinney, vice president of the Kansas Farmers Union, and former editor of this paper. Let us hope he writes letters to “Jonas” and that he lets us read the letters.) Hon. Jonas … Continue reading
