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In February 1980 the federal dietary guidelines told Americans to avoid too much fat and cholesterol, choose lean meat, and use eggs and organ meats such as liver in moderation.
The tenth edition, released January 7, 2026, lists eggs, poultry, seafood and red meat among the protein foods to eat at every meal, at 1.2 to 1.6 grams of protein per kilo of body weight.
Nearly forty-six years separate those two sentences.
Dr. Ken Berry was asked why the guidelines drifted so far from what humans should eat. He named the funders: Kellogg's, Kraft Heinz, Mondelēz, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola. "That's who's buying all the textbooks."
The receipts back him. Between 2011 and 2017 the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics took $486,335 from PepsiCo, $477,577 from Coca-Cola and $273,272 from Kellogg USA, per an analysis of its IRS filings. That is the association registered dietitians belong to.
The one number that never moved is the 10 percent saturated fat cap. The same edition names butter, full-fat dairy and beef tallow among healthy fats from whole foods.
Berry's read on the pill side is the same model. Managed disease keeps a customer for life.
Clip from @doctorkiltz
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A Georgia rancher added two words to a mule's name in the sale catalog and turned a plain animal into the story every buyer repeated to his friends.
The mule went in the catalog as Shark Tank Otis, named after his run on the show. The same animal people had walked past all morning now had buyers asking how a cowboy bought a mule with TV money.
Wealthy Cowboy's guest made the point plainly on this week's episode. Whether you are moving registered bulls or a phone charger, people buy the story first.
The commodity side of this industry spent fifty years stripping the story out of cattle. Animals sell through the ring by weight, hide color, and a number on a card.
Ranchers keep roughly 40 cents of every dollar a shopper hands over at the meat case. Four packers handle about 80 percent of the kill. That spread has been widening for decades.
The 2 a.m. calf pulls in the snow live in the real story. So does the hay put up the day before the rain, and the same family working the same ground for four generations.
That story carries the only value in this business a packer cannot price by the pound.
Selling direct puts the story back in the hands of the rancher who lived it.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
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The house you paid off can still evict you through the mailbox.
A homeowner who has held the same place for almost 15 years wrote in that the property tax notice just added 600 dollars a year, the home insurance notice added 60 a month, and the propane supplier sent a letter saying its price was doubling. One tank refill cost 1,000 dollars.
The mortgage is the small bill now. The yearly cost of standing on land you already bought is the one that decides whether you stay.
The wider numbers say the same thing. Home insurance now runs higher than the average property tax bill in about two thirds of American counties, and county average premiums are up roughly 45 percent after inflation over ten years.
Marketplace health coverage went from an average 113 dollars a month to 178. For subsidized enrollees the yearly bill more than doubled, 888 dollars to 1,904.
Property taxes averaged 4,427 dollars nationally in 2025, up 3.7 percent. For a lot of rural households the insurance line is now bigger than the tax line.
A Homestead Journey collected this stack of letters from people living it, and the part that lands is where the ones who cannot cover the mailbox bills end up. Trailers. Campers. Cars.
A 2026 review counted 46,771 people sleeping in vehicles across 38 western states. The January 2025 federal count put 745,652 Americans homeless, 266,320 of them unsheltered.
Land is the last thing worth owning and the hardest thing to keep.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
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Second trip up the hill before noon, and the fence was still on the ground, so today was repairs and not cattle.
Overcast in North Idaho, which is fine weather for wire work. The neighbor's open gals are out again, and Cole is just doing what Cole does. I made a suggestion about it, and it's almost like it's a joke to him.
We're on to repairs either way, and it's a short one today. Just some of the trials and tribulations that come with this business.
Have a good rest of your week, and I'll talk to you soon.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
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Chuck Trowbridge says he doubled and maybe tripled the forage on 200 acres outside Sherman, Texas. Then he named the biggest cost on the place. It is the calf he bought, not the land or the grass.
He runs Prairie Farmstead with his wife and in-laws, laying hens to grass-finished beef, sold to families off the farm.
The 100-acre parcel he added by the Red River had been continuously grazed on half and hayed every year on the other half. When he saw it, it looked like a golf course, hay hauled in mid-summer to feed cattle on bare ground.
Four seasons in, it makes more forage a year.
The rule he sets on the cow herd is the part that transfers. A cow has to wean a calf on that forage. No exceptions. If she cannot, she goes into the beef business.
That standard holds because he has somewhere to send her. The failures become beef sold to families, which is what lets the cull be that strict.
Hay is the second cost. So the number he watches is how many winters a calf spends here eating hay.
He ran hay tests across the county and region for three years. His samples came back too close to matter, so he stopped. "I'm trying to get cows that can adapt to what's grown here regionally."
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Fed cattle brought $224.19 a hundred live the week of October 18, the week Scott Thomsen decided he was done with the man he voted for three times.
Thomsen is 39, father of five, farming fourth-generation ground at Kennard, Nebraska, corn, alfalfa, soybeans and calves. He told ABC he will not vote for Trump again, and probably will not vote at all on November 3.
He puts his diesel and fertiliser up 40 percent, and some equipment at three times what it used to cost.
The federal diesel number is worse than his estimate. On-highway diesel averaged $3.66 a gallon in 2025. Mid-October it ran $6.18, after a $6.53 peak the week of September 21.
Nebraska agriculture is one job in four. Rural voters went 69 percent for Trump in 2024. Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies ran 201 in the first half of 2026, against 181 a year earlier.
None of that touches the number that sets a cattleman's check. Four packers kill about 85 percent of the steers and heifers in this country. No tariff and no vote on November 3 moves that bid.
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Daily reminder that our tallow has a name, a farm & a face 🐄
@JohnDWenger at Redbanks Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley
If a skincare brand can't tell you where their tallow comes from, ask why
Do you know where yours comes from?
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Colorado passed LL and MM to fund better meals for kids. Now, nearly a year later, we haven't seen a single order for beef from Colorado schools.
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The co-op board set the price of his milk, his banker could end the operation, so he sold every asset he owned and started selling raw milk straight off the farm.
He had the cows, the land, and a grandfather who helped found the co-op. He still could not name his own price. Whatever the board said milk was worth, that was what it was worth.
Then futures trading came in. He was buying feed on one side and betting on the milk price on the other, riding a roller coaster his hands never touched.
On Barn Talk he called farmers business owners with no control over their own destiny. The day the banker says you are done, you are done, whether you agree or not.
So he quit. Sold anything with a dollar of value in it. A 350 dollar trencher rental nearly put him under. He welded and dug by headlights with a year of sweat equity in front of him.
His wife gave the idea its shape. If they were going to do this, it had to be raw milk.
He says he runs the only dairy in Arizona milking a 100 percent Brown Swiss herd. His cows, his price, his customers.
The country went from 648,000 dairy farms in 1970 down to about 24,800 licensed farms in 2024. The guy who walked away from the board is still milking.
I would rather own the whole chain than spend my life arguing with a board over what my product is worth.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
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The auctioneer asked for a million dollars on a nine-month-old bull in Billings on Saturday. Nobody went there. The hammer fell at $900,000.
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Doug Stevenson raised him at Basin Angus in Reed Point, Montana. Just over nine months old, he cannot yet produce semen for AI. Ten buyers grouped up to buy an interest, Stevenson keeps 50 percent, and the bull moves to an AI facility once he matures.
Roger Jacobs called it at the Billings Livestock Commission. "One million," he said. "I've never asked that before."
Nobody pays that for beef. Two yearling bull averages in the Western Livestock Journal this month came in at $8,416 and $12,318, so this 9-month-old equals 75 to 107 of those bulls.
The same week, USDA auction data had 500 to 600 pound steers at about $439 per hundredweight, call it $2,400 to $2,600 a head. That buys about 350 of those calves. The man raising them takes the bid on the calf, not a share of what the genetics do later.
The record is still SAV America 8018 at $1.51 million, Schaff Angus Valley, St. Anthony, North Dakota, February 2019.
There are 28.5 million beef cows in the country as of July 1, down 1 percent from a year earlier.
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🎙️ The Quiet Land Grab of America's Farms
Ep. 169 with @ToddWeyl
Todd Weyl is a cattle rancher, direct-to-consumer beef producer and the owner of Weyl Farms Direct, a 240-acre family farm his parents bought in 1965. Taught in agricultural college that beef would follow poultry and pork into the feedlot model, Todd finally began questioning the commodity system. Since 2020 he has sold directly to families, and he is an active voice in @modernTman's Beef Initiative, building a decentralized food network one ranch at a time. In this special episode, we dig into the quiet consolidation of farmland, the industrialization of agriculture since 1971, degradation of public health, why is fast food the human version of a feedlot, lab meat, and how he finances his farm with @hodlwithLedn Bitcoin-backed loans for cashflow and infinite banking philosophy.
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00:00 - Coming Up...
01:28 - Introduction: Todd Weyl
05:37 - The State of US Farms & Their Owners
07:03 - The Coming Land Grab: Aging Ranchers, Widowed Landowners & Tokenized Farmland
10:49 - 1971 & the Industrialization of Agriculture
11:26 - Ad-Break: Ledn & Abundant Mines
15:13 - Mystery Meat: Imported Beef, Kangaroo & Horse
17:02 - Selling Direct, and the Beef Initiative, Beef Maps
20:08 - The Perennial Mindset: 100 Families Within 100 Miles
26:24 - Wendell Berry's Books & 1977 Warning
32:16 - Ad-Break: Trezor
32:50 - Why the System Can't Afford a Healthy Population
34:57 - Lab Meat & the Hubris of Life Without Death
36:31 - Texas Slim's "The Harvest of Deception": System of Monopolies
39:44 - Jeff Booth's "The Price of Tomorrow" & a Deflationary Farm
45:12 - Infinite Banking, & Ledn Bitcoin Loans
56:31 - Perennial Mindset, Nature, Grounding, Food, Health
01:00:23 - What Gives Todd Hope?
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🎙️ NEW EPISODE: The Quiet Land Grab of America's Farms
Todd Weyl @ToddWeyl is a cattle rancher, owner of Weyl Farms Direct, a 240-acre Arkansas family farm, selling beef direct to families since 2020. We discuss:
⚡ Quiet consolidation of farmland
⚡ Industrial agriculture since 1971
⚡ Meatpacker monopolies
⚡ Texas Slim's Beef Initiative
⚡ Fast food as a human feedlot
⚡ Lab “meat”
⚡ America’s public health decline
⚡ Financing the farm with Ledn Bitcoin-backed loans
Full episode below!
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The Labor Department certified 398,258 H-2A guestworker positions in fiscal 2025. In fiscal 2010 it certified 79,011.
The visa is tied to the employer who petitions for it and the stay caps at three years, so the man on it cannot walk down the road and take the job at the next outfit.
H.R. 9535, the Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act, would drop the seasonal requirement and count an employment period of up to 350 days as temporary.
Operators asking for 500 or more workers were about 1 percent of employers and took roughly 39 percent of the certified positions in 2022.
Livestock and ranch work came to 5 percent of the 2025 total, 19,832 positions. Crops, nursery and greenhouse took 82 percent.
Jim Mundorf, who hosts Lonesome Lands with Colorado cattleman Shad Sullivan, says the program buys an advantage over your neighbor. "Everyone that works on our place has the last name Mundorf."
The wage floor those employers pay is largely built from wages growers report about themselves on USDA's Farm Labor Survey.
@LonesomeLands @jimmundorf
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JBS closed Monday at $12.90 a share, down 1 percent, the day Brazil confirmed Newcastle disease in a turkey barn it does not own.
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Brazil's ag ministry confirmed the case Oct 19 at a commercial turkey farm in Nova Itaberaba, Santa Catarina, 6,000 birds, and declared a 60-day zoosanitary emergency.
By Monday night Mexico had stopped Brazilian poultry imports. China's protocol binds Brazil's own hand. The country suspends its own exports and waits on Beijing to decide how wide the ban runs.
Brazil, the world's largest chicken exporter, shipped 5.3 million metric tons in 2025 for $9.79 billion. Santa Catarina ships about 23 percent of that trade. JBS runs four Seara units there, at Itapiranga, Bom Retiro, Itaiópolis and Nova Veneza, and put R$216 million in them in May 2025.
The barn supplied MBRF, the Marfrig-BRF combine, not JBS. Pilgrim's Pride, 82 percent JBS owned, fell 3 percent that day. America buys almost none of it.
A disease-free certificate is national, so one barn can close a state's export book and reprice every company holding paper there. Ranchers price cattle the same way. One kill floor sets every seller within hauling distance.
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Every time you buy a single package of beef at the grocery store, you pay a markup that stacked up along a long road.
USDA price spread data shows what that road looks like. Of every dollar spent on beef at retail, the rancher gets somewhere between 40 and 55 cents. The store side takes about 40. In the 1970s the rancher's share was closer to 60 or 70 cents. Four packers handle around 80 percent of the beef in this country, so most of the leverage sits in a few hands that never touch a pasture.
Retail beef averaged about 9.60 a pound this year. Ribeye and strip run 12.70 and up. You pay that margin one package at a time, and you pay it again next week.
I sell beef by the share. A quarter is about 150 pounds hanging weight, a half about 300, and the butcher fees are already in the price. You get the ground, the roasts, the steaks, and the bones if you want them, cut to your sheet and wrapped for the freezer. You settle up with me and the butcher, and no store adds its own margin to the same animal.
Grass finished, dry aged 12 to 14 days. No hormones, no antibiotics, no vaccines, no TVP. Raised on a family place in Spirit Lake, Idaho.
A share costs less for a plain reason. Fewer people stand between the pasture and your freezer.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
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A Nevada sheep outfit in the family since 1903 lost its buyers in 2022 and never got them back. Its rancher testified at the U.S. International Trade Commission on Oct. 16.
Michael Bardsley of John Espil Sheep Company testified for R-CALF USA in the lamb safeguard case TA-201-80. The family trails 5,000 head in Nevada and California, cattle included.
In 2020 a feeder offered $1.20 a pound. In 2021 the same crop drew $2.60. In 2022 the buyers were gone: "We received less than half the price per pound we received the previous year."
R-CALF USA's Oct. 8 brief says imports reach ranchers through the packer: fewer domestic meat sales means fewer slaughter lambs bought, and fewer lambs bought off the ranch.
In R-CALF's own survey, 53 of 111 growers and feeders said buyers cited imported lamb when cutting bids, and feeder marketings fell 45.4 percent from 2021 to 2025.
USDA's own count: breeding sheep fell from 3.66 million head in January 2025 to 3.61 million in January 2026. Lamb imports in carcass weight rose 14.3 percent from 2021 to 2025.
The last American lamb safeguard was a 2001 tariff-rate quota the WTO ruled inconsistent. The injury finding here is due Nov. 13.
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Fed cattle in western Nebraska sold up to $227 live on Friday. The same week, choice boxed beef closed at $372.31, down $1.04.
Higher cattle against lower beef is the wrong direction for a packer. It is what he pays when he needs cattle worse than he needs the spread.
The board said it would not happen. October live cattle fell 22 cents Monday, 12 Tuesday, 72 Wednesday.
Then it turned. Up $2.05 Thursday, $1.60 Friday, closed the week at $227.55.
Corbitt Wall on Friday's Feeder Flash: "They finally got a little bit of grit to them and they asked for a little bit more."
Country trade backed him up. Northern Plains live cattle ran $220 to $223 through Thursday. Friday brought $220 to $225 in Iowa, $222 to $227 in Nebraska, and dressed bids of $350 to $360, steady to $8 higher.
What moved the number was a refusal. The first bid is an opening offer. It only gets raised when the seller has feed in the bunk, room at the bank and enough cattle to say no.
Formula cattle, roughly 70 percent of the kill, are priced off that negotiated print. The 17 percent who can afford to wait are pricing everybody else's contract.
@corbittwall @nbwfeederflash
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Get this boy breeding.
The auctioneer asked for a million dollars on a nine-month-old bull in Billings on Saturday. Nobody went there. The hammer fell at $900,000.
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Doug Stevenson raised him at Basin Angus in Reed Point, Montana. Just over nine months old, he cannot yet produce semen for AI. Ten buyers grouped up to buy an interest, Stevenson keeps 50 percent, and the bull moves to an AI facility once he matures.
Roger Jacobs called it at the Billings Livestock Commission. "One million," he said. "I've never asked that before."
Nobody pays that for beef. Two yearling bull averages in the Western Livestock Journal this month came in at $8,416 and $12,318, so this 9-month-old equals 75 to 107 of those bulls.
The same week, USDA auction data had 500 to 600 pound steers at about $439 per hundredweight, call it $2,400 to $2,600 a head. That buys about 350 of those calves. The man raising them takes the bid on the calf, not a share of what the genetics do later.
The record is still SAV America 8018 at $1.51 million, Schaff Angus Valley, St. Anthony, North Dakota, February 2019.
There are 28.5 million beef cows in the country as of July 1, down 1 percent from a year earlier.
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Kansas passed HB 2279 in 2023. Western groundwater districts had to file a plan to address their water decline by July 1, 2026, or the state steps in.
Groundwater Management District 3 in Garden City filed the first district-wide plan. Chief Engineer Earl Lewis rejected it twice, writing that it "does not reasonably address" the crisis.
Trevor Ahring built it over three years. Cuts step up every five years. Farms that pumped less than their neighbors keep more water.
The Kansas Geological Survey tracks the decline. Some ground in the district is down 30 feet of water in ten years. At its thickest, the formation runs just over 300 feet.
That water grows the corn and alfalfa. Kansas had 2.32 million cattle on feed Sept 1, third in the country, and Tyson at Holcomb plus National Beef at Liberal kill about 6,000 head a day each.
In the northwest, GMD 4 cut pumping under its LEMA and members reported staying profitable on lower energy bills. The Kansas Farm Bureau moved to scale the next plan back. The state denied that too.
Holdren of KFB: "The ability to own land and manage and maintain and do what you want with your own land is sort of fundamental to us as Americans."
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🔥 BERNIE HANSEN ISN’T PLAYING THE PACKERS GAMES -- HE’S FIGHTING BACK
Against farm collapse. Against feedlot science. Against $100/ton Bovaer “carbon optics.”
His microalgae feed = +50 lbs gains, 1:1 omega ratio, -20% death loss in cattle
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