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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
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Entrepreneurship & Antitrust: A Livestock Producers Prospective
Cattlemen seek antitrust reins on packers
Published Sunday May 12, 2002 Cattlemen seek antitrust reins on packers BY BILL HORD WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER In spite of a congressional setback with the latest farm bill, about 300 cattlemen sent a signal Saturday that they aren’t going to … Continue reading
They Really Are Gangsters, Thugs, and Thieves
Ranchers struggling to survive deserve to know what happened to their markets, and who is complicit in the destruction of agriculture’s largest industry. We all have a stake in this. Use arrows at the top of slide to advance through … Continue reading
Perspectives on Agriculture: Past and Future
Callicrate note: Several years ago, in a conversation with John, we discussed the use of a new term describing what I thought was a better kind of agriculture. Since “sustainable” had been stolen by big corporate ag, I suggested the … Continue reading
Return to carcass trade is essential for cattle industry and rural prosperity
After more than 50 years of concentration, consolidation, hyper-industrialization, and a pandemic, the producers, workers, animals, and consumers have all suffered from the loss of competition and demise of local/regional food infrastructure. Land-grant and business school economists teaching “Big is … Continue reading
