@kit_sats @BornTo_BeFree @JohnDWenger @RedbanksCustom Their selection of cuts in the shop is my favorite. Best way to try so many steaks you don’t typically get to eat.
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SAVE BEEF 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com retweeted
Wow guys!!! Thanks for the shout-out!!!
Ron Paul spent the open of his show on one example of the affordability crisis: the federal inspection rule that makes it illegal for a small farmer to sell his own meat in his own community.
He credits Representative Thomas Massie with introducing the PRIME bill, near enough in the House. Ron Paul called it a radical idea that farmers ought to be allowed to butcher their own cattle and take care of themselves, without a federal inspector who will come with guns and who knows what, and then fines and checks to write.
His point on who is hurting: the big producers in the cattle business are not the ones complaining about it. The little guy is.
And on why the rule survives: the big companies would rather Massie could not sell a neighbor one of his own cows, because that is one less cow they ship across the country. They have the lobbyists and the volume to freeze other people out.
His answer to the affordability crisis is that government caused it.
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“We trust our ranchers, we know where their loyalty lies, and we know they’re always gonna take care of us.”
People ask us all the time why we openly share who our rancher is. “Aren’t you worried another brand will steal him?” 🤔
Honestly? No.
The Wenger family at Redbanks Farm raises some of the most beautiful grass-fed cattle in the Shenandoah Valley, and their tallow is hem to succeed. A rising tide lifts all boats 🌊
When you surround yourself with good people, you don’t operate from fear. You build real relationships, you show up for each other, and loyalty takes care of itself 🤝
Know your farmer. Know your tallow. Know what you’re putting on your skin.
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SAVE BEEF 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com retweeted
People ask us all the time why we openly share who our rancher is. “Aren’t you worried another brand will steal him?” 🤔
Honestly? No.
The Wenger family at Redbanks Farm raises some of the most beautiful grass-fed cattle in the Shenandoah Valley, and their tallow is hem to succeed. A rising tide lifts all boats 🌊
When you surround yourself with good people, you don’t operate from fear. You build real relationships, you show up for each other, and loyalty takes care of itself 🤝
Know your farmer. Know your tallow. Know what you’re putting on your skin.
Honestly? No.
The Wenger family at Redbanks Farm raises some of the most beautiful grass-fed cattle in the Shenandoah Valley, and their tallow is hem to succeed. A rising tide lifts all boats 🌊
When you surround yourself with good people, you don’t operate from fear. You build real relationships, you show up for each other, and loyalty takes care of itself 🤝
Know your farmer. Know your tallow. Know what you’re putting on your skin.
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SAVE BEEF 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com retweeted
A 1,400 lb steer costs 3,590 dollars to raise and fills a freezer with 550 lbs of meat. The same cuts ring up at 5,453 dollars in the grocery store.
That is 6.53 a pound for beef you raised and 9.91 a pound for beef somebody else raised, killed, cut, wrapped, trucked and .
Rational Ranchers broke the whole year down line by line. A 500 lb weaned calf at 3.75 a pound, 1,875 dollars, fed twelve months to 1,400.
Two tons of grain at 360 a ton. 720 dollars.
Two tons of hay at 100 a ton. 200 dollars.
Minerals 25 dollars. Vet 20.
Processing is the second biggest cost. 750 dollars to have the animal killed, cut and wrapped.
That 1,400 lb steer comes back as 550 lbs of packaged meat. The missing 850 lbs are hide, bone, fat and water. 39 percent take-home is how a finished beef animal works.
I ran his retail figure against the market. All fresh beef averaged 9.74 a pound at the end of October, so his "almost 10" holds up.
One number in that video is already stale. This month's run of 500 lb weaned steers is bringing 4.40 to 5.10 a pound. At 4.75 that calf costs 2,375 dollars instead of 1,875, the project climbs to 4,090 dollars, and the meat still lands at 7.44 a pound.
The 2.50 a pound you save gets paid for with a year of somebody's mornings.
The store earns its margin at the counter, where every cut gets trimmed, weighed, labeled and marked up. The animal was the cheap part all along.
That gap is why we sell our beef by the quarter and the half, with the price set long before the animal is finished.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
That is 6.53 a pound for beef you raised and 9.91 a pound for beef somebody else raised, killed, cut, wrapped, trucked and .
Rational Ranchers broke the whole year down line by line. A 500 lb weaned calf at 3.75 a pound, 1,875 dollars, fed twelve months to 1,400.
Two tons of grain at 360 a ton. 720 dollars.
Two tons of hay at 100 a ton. 200 dollars.
Minerals 25 dollars. Vet 20.
Processing is the second biggest cost. 750 dollars to have the animal killed, cut and wrapped.
That 1,400 lb steer comes back as 550 lbs of packaged meat. The missing 850 lbs are hide, bone, fat and water. 39 percent take-home is how a finished beef animal works.
I ran his retail figure against the market. All fresh beef averaged 9.74 a pound at the end of October, so his "almost 10" holds up.
One number in that video is already stale. This month's run of 500 lb weaned steers is bringing 4.40 to 5.10 a pound. At 4.75 that calf costs 2,375 dollars instead of 1,875, the project climbs to 4,090 dollars, and the meat still lands at 7.44 a pound.
The 2.50 a pound you save gets paid for with a year of somebody's mornings.
The store earns its margin at the counter, where every cut gets trimmed, weighed, labeled and marked up. The animal was the cheap part all along.
That gap is why we sell our beef by the quarter and the half, with the price set long before the animal is finished.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
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SAVE BEEF 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com retweeted
A farmer quit baling his own hay and started buying the good stuff instead. His feed bill went up and his beef operation made more money.
Nathan Joppeck explained the thinking at a Stockman Grassfarmer talk. Feed to make money, not to save money.
Cheap hay is the expensive it as well, they do not gain on it, and you end up buying protein tubs and grain in February to cover the gap.
He sets his floor at 30 percent margin on the meat he sells. He would rather be at 40 or 50.
That margin pays for the equipment, the overhead, the mortgage, and his own salary. Every one of those bills waits on the price he set in the fall.
His rule on price is simple. Do not charge out of your own wallet. Customers will pay more than you think, and most of them will pay it gladly.
The buying clubs that stuck sit in the towns with real money and enough people to fill a delivery. Some locations never took off and he shut them down.
Closing a drop point that still cuts checks is the hardest math on a farm.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
Nathan Joppeck explained the thinking at a Stockman Grassfarmer talk. Feed to make money, not to save money.
Cheap hay is the expensive it as well, they do not gain on it, and you end up buying protein tubs and grain in February to cover the gap.
He sets his floor at 30 percent margin on the meat he sells. He would rather be at 40 or 50.
That margin pays for the equipment, the overhead, the mortgage, and his own salary. Every one of those bills waits on the price he set in the fall.
His rule on price is simple. Do not charge out of your own wallet. Customers will pay more than you think, and most of them will pay it gladly.
The buying clubs that stuck sit in the towns with real money and enough people to fill a delivery. Some locations never took off and he shut them down.
Closing a drop point that still cuts checks is the hardest math on a farm.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
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Nothing on the expense side of this story was negotiable. Feed conversion is the part a producer still moves. BetterFedFoods.com reports up to 10% better feed-to-gain, and that is the margin that decides who keeps the ground.
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@YanasaTV Full episode on the Fode case, including the Supreme Court arguments from October 1. youtube.com/watch?v=xNaSop…
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Water fights like this one are running in every basin in the West. The families still holding ground are the ones worth buying from. find the ones who live this at 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com
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RCW 90.03.605 requires Washington's Department of Ecology to give a water user written technical assistance before it fines him.
Ecology's eastern region water manager, Keith Stoffel, was asked under oath whether Ron Fode ever got any. He said no.
Fode farms in Grant County es, alfalfa, hay, cattle. At his peak he worked better than 4,000 acres, much of it leased.
In January 2017 he went to Ecology about moving water rights he already held. The Columbia Basin office ran a February 15 cutoff. That date is not in the statute and never went through rulemaking.
Fode missed it while the office would not return his calls. He did irrigate ground the rights did not cover. Ecology billed him $618,000 across three parcels, 103 days at up to $3,000 a day.
The Pollution Control Hearings Board could prove 52 of those days. It cut the fine to $260,000. Ecology appealed to get the rest back and lost.
The bank saw the fine printed in a newspaper and pulled his operating line. The family sold every acre they owned. He leases 280 now.
The state Supreme Court heard the case October 1. No ruling yet.
@YanasaTV
Ecology's eastern region water manager, Keith Stoffel, was asked under oath whether Ron Fode ever got any. He said no.
Fode farms in Grant County es, alfalfa, hay, cattle. At his peak he worked better than 4,000 acres, much of it leased.
In January 2017 he went to Ecology about moving water rights he already held. The Columbia Basin office ran a February 15 cutoff. That date is not in the statute and never went through rulemaking.
Fode missed it while the office would not return his calls. He did irrigate ground the rights did not cover. Ecology billed him $618,000 across three parcels, 103 days at up to $3,000 a day.
The Pollution Control Hearings Board could prove 52 of those days. It cut the fine to $260,000. Ecology appealed to get the rest back and lost.
The bank saw the fine printed in a newspaper and pulled his operating line. The family sold every acre they owned. He leases 280 now.
The state Supreme Court heard the case October 1. No ruling yet.
@YanasaTV
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Not enough grass and not enough cows. The second half of that is a breeding problem.
LaRue ran 34 cows on the tubs at 100 percent bred. The 30 on ordinary mineral feed came back 30 percent open.
That breed-back is where BetterFedFoods.com pays for itself.
LaRue ran 34 cows on the tubs at 100 percent bred. The 30 on ordinary mineral feed came back 30 percent open.
That breed-back is where BetterFedFoods.com pays for itself.
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Source: 9NEWS, Colorado ranchers facing shrinking herds and plant closures. youtube.com/watch?v=0vYI5Y…
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There is not enough grass to go around for the cows that are out there, and not enough cows either. That is the squeeze 9NEWS went to Colorado to explain.
One rancher's math on selling feed instead of keeping it for his own herd: the cost of feeding is next to nothing, but it sell that feed. Grass is short. Water is a problem. Fuel is high.
Jennifer Martin, who teaches meat safety and quality at Colorado State, put the incentive plainly. My cows are worth a lot of money, so the incentive is not to keep more of them, it is to go and sell the ones I have. She remembers calves at $1,100 three years ago, $1,800 two years ago, $2,500 last fall.
Beef plants are hitting barriers too. Tyson has closed or announced plans to exit multiple facilities, and the industry question is whether that is all of them.
Some ranchers are not waiting. Mountain View Meats is the family's own farm store, opened to sell beef direct to the public, because people in the community wanted to know the rancher.
One rancher's math on selling feed instead of keeping it for his own herd: the cost of feeding is next to nothing, but it sell that feed. Grass is short. Water is a problem. Fuel is high.
Jennifer Martin, who teaches meat safety and quality at Colorado State, put the incentive plainly. My cows are worth a lot of money, so the incentive is not to keep more of them, it is to go and sell the ones I have. She remembers calves at $1,100 three years ago, $1,800 two years ago, $2,500 last fall.
Beef plants are hitting barriers too. Tyson has closed or announced plans to exit multiple facilities, and the industry question is whether that is all of them.
Some ranchers are not waiting. Mountain View Meats is the family's own farm store, opened to sell beef direct to the public, because people in the community wanted to know the rancher.
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The plant is the headline. What decides a rancher's year is the calf crop, settled on the ration months before the sale barn.
A preg-check crew working from Huron, South Dakota to Jordan, Montana ran 78 heifers and found two open.
That is what BetterFedFoods.com is for.
A preg-check crew working from Huron, South Dakota to Jordan, Montana ran 78 heifers and found two open.
That is what BetterFedFoods.com is for.
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Four packers held 73.9 percent of the beef kill in analyst John Nalivka's August count. That is the market a new plant walks into, and it is why the kill dates matter.
Meanwhile the ranches already selling beef direct sit on one map, by state and by cut.
🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com
Meanwhile the ranches already selling beef direct sit on one map, by state and by cut.
🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com
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USDA is guaranteeing a $24.6 million commercial loan for a beef plant in Dimmitt, Texas. The announcement named no company, no lender and no start date.
Vice President Vance gave the rest of the numbers at a Weatherford rally for Senate candidate Ken Paxton on Oct 29: about 400 head a day, 220 jobs at an average of $30 an hour, and 36 local investors who raise cattle across the Panhandle, building what USDA calls an alternative to major national meat-processing companies.
BeefNews found nothing published as of Oct 30 naming the borrower, the lender, the guaranteed share, a construction start or an opening date.
The rule underneath is where the money is. Federal B&I loans cap at $10 million per borrower, and the Administrator can except up to $25 million when the lender shows the project dies without the guarantee. Above $10 million the guarantee cannot exceed 60 percent. A $24.6 million loan sits $400,000 under that ceiling, so USDA's exposure tops out near $14.8 million. The release does not say whether it is that high.
At five kill days a week, 400 head a day is about 104,000 a year, roughly 0.35 percent of the 29.8 million head NASS counted in commercial slaughter in 2025.
Locally the story is supply. Dimmitt sits in a dairy county: AgriLife puts dairy receipts at $343.5 million, cow-calf and stocker at $28.1 million, fed beef at $10.2 million. Cattle for 400 head a day would have to come from well outside the county, and nothing published says whether a rancher who is not one of the 36 can book kill dates.
The open question is who gets the kill dates.
beefmaps.com/news/four-hund…
Vice President Vance gave the rest of the numbers at a Weatherford rally for Senate candidate Ken Paxton on Oct 29: about 400 head a day, 220 jobs at an average of $30 an hour, and 36 local investors who raise cattle across the Panhandle, building what USDA calls an alternative to major national meat-processing companies.
BeefNews found nothing published as of Oct 30 naming the borrower, the lender, the guaranteed share, a construction start or an opening date.
The rule underneath is where the money is. Federal B&I loans cap at $10 million per borrower, and the Administrator can except up to $25 million when the lender shows the project dies without the guarantee. Above $10 million the guarantee cannot exceed 60 percent. A $24.6 million loan sits $400,000 under that ceiling, so USDA's exposure tops out near $14.8 million. The release does not say whether it is that high.
At five kill days a week, 400 head a day is about 104,000 a year, roughly 0.35 percent of the 29.8 million head NASS counted in commercial slaughter in 2025.
Locally the story is supply. Dimmitt sits in a dairy county: AgriLife puts dairy receipts at $343.5 million, cow-calf and stocker at $28.1 million, fed beef at $10.2 million. Cattle for 400 head a day would have to come from well outside the county, and nothing published says whether a rancher who is not one of the 36 can book kill dates.
The open question is who gets the kill dates.
beefmaps.com/news/four-hund…
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