- 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 packers by Kathryn Eastburn - Great Ranches of the West
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"An eye opening and heart touching portrait of a culture and industry that we are in great danger of losing. This book will help readers understand the urgency of preserving the Western ranchlands inhabited by families and rural communities that provide nourishing food for our nation, preserve a healthy natural environment and entrust that great American values will endure."
- Mike Callicrate
An Endangered Species
Every month 1,000 ranches go out of production.
It's the national security issue that no one is talking about.
Tag Archives: NCBA
Special Report: The End of the Trail – How Government Destroyed Free Markets for Family Ranchers
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s inaction has led to the near-destruction of American family ranchers. Over 17,000 family ranches will disappear this year. Over 100,000 family ranchers have left the profession since 2009. It’s a tragedy as world-renowned American beef … Continue reading
Posted in Beef Checkoff, Daily News
Tagged antitrust, Beef, Bill Bullard, Cargill, Department of Agriculture, Dudley Butler, GIPSA, JBS, Krogers, meat packers, Mike Callicrate, National Cattleman’s Beef Association, NCBA, Obama, R-CALF, ranching, robert taylor, The Jungle, Upon Sinclair, USDA, Vilsack, Walmart
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Alan Newport’s irresponsible and unethical post
Dear Mr. Newport, You claim in your editorial, “HSUS Shows Continued Pattern of Dishonest Behavior,” that you “despise liars and lying.” You go on to promote outrageous and untrue allegations about HSUS, in quoting probably the slickest purveyor of deception … Continue reading
Posted in General Advocacy
Tagged Big Food, HSUS, HSUS Ag Council for Colorado, NCBA, R-CALF, Rick Berman
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“Cow Tax” receives squeaky clean bill of health from Inspector General – REALLY???
Did the Inspector General’s office really give the “Cow Tax” and its myriad of questionable expenditures a squeaky clean bill of health? Not privileged to read the official I.G. or U.S.D.A. public release, I only heard the N.C.B.A. and their … Continue reading
Building Connections between Producers and Eaters
A presentation at Rocky Mountains Farmer Union in association with The Humane Society of the United States at the Meeting of the Markets Summit on October 15th 2012. 00:55 How important is a Farmer? 03:10 Changing the way we eat … Continue reading
Posted in General Advocacy
Tagged AVOG, beef checkoff, Callicrate Beef, Callicrate Cattle Co., Choice Beef, Colorado Proud, Colorado Springs, Cowpool, Dudley Butler, Farm Check, Holly Tarry, HSUS, Joe Maxwell, Marcy Nemeth, Mike Callicrate, Mobile meat processing, NCBA, Public Market, Ranch Foods Direct, Rick Hughes, Sodexo, Sysco, Tyson, US Farmers and Ranchers Alliance, USDA, Vincent C Vickers
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