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A podcast talking all things cattle, sheep, and American exceptionalism. We stand for liberty and freedom and we’re having real, honest conversations about what’s affecting your family, your community, your ranch, and your legacy. R-CALF USA is the largest cattle producer-only membership based organization that exclusively represents U.S. cattle and sheep producers on domestic and international trade and marketing issues. R-CALF is dedicated to ensuring the continued profitability and viability of the U.S. cattle industry. R-CALF USA’s membership of more than 5,000 consists primarily of cow-calf producers, cattle backgrounders, and feeders. R-CALF USA is set apart from all other national cattle associations because we rely solely on membership dues and donations to carry out our mission to ensure the continued profitability and independence of United States cattle and sheep producers. We exist only because of support from our members. For more information, to become a member, or to donate please visit www.r-calfusa.com.
Episodes
Aug 3, 2022
Aug 3, 2022
5 min
R-CALF USA's Weekly Address with Bill Bullard
It's Bigger Than You Think
August 3, 2022
Jul 27, 2022
Jul 27, 2022
5 min
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
30 min
We are so excited to welcome another one of our board members to the podcast, today we talk with Dave Hyde on the importance of information, the checkoff, and his experience with the chicken, hog, and dairy industries why it fuels his passion for cattle industry change.
Show Notes:
Tracy Hunt's GRSB presentation: https://youtu.be/XVXdXsNhcVg
Jul 5, 2022
Jul 5, 2022
42 min
We are constantly seeing the effects of vertical integration and government overreach in our cattle industry. The landscape of rural America is changing, and our communities are feeling those effects. We sat down with R-CALF USA director, Kansas rancher and former sale barn owner, Kyle Hemmert, to talk RFID tags, the beef checkoff, MCOOL and rural America.
Jun 13, 2022
Jun 13, 2022
45 min
Here at R-CALF, we’ve been working really hard on our outreach and communications efforts. Today join Karina and Jaiden as we discuss the podcast, magazine, important convention updates and details and more on this episode of the R-CALF USA Round Up.
May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022
34 min
It's a hard time to be an American cattle rancher. When we started this podcast, we wanted these episodes to be real and raw conversations about the things happening in our industry. Sometimes its hard to talk about those struggles ranchers are facing, but Karina sat down with Missouri rancher Coy Young to discuss the new No Rancher Left Behind campaign.
May 16, 2022
May 16, 2022
31 min
Cattle producers around the country are feeling the squeeze as the cattle market fails to give them competitive prices for their cattle month after month. Why is the market like this? How do we improve it? We visited with Georgetown professor and economist Nathan Miller to discuss just that.
Read Nathan Miller's ongoing study "Buyer Power in the Beef Packing Industry: An Update on Research in Progress": https://www.r-calfusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/220331-cattlemarkets.pdf
May 2, 2022
May 2, 2022
54 min
Vertical integration, consolidation, monopolies, all phrases and realities American ranchers are becoming very familiar with. In 2014, the Meat Racket hit bookshelves around the country and brought to light the monopoly-dominated structure of the American meat industry. We sat down with the author Christopher Leonard, to discuss his research, consolidation of the meat industry and how the industry has changed just 8 years later.
Show Notes:
-Listen to Leonard's 2021 Yale Antitrust Conference presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkZN3CMN8sc
-Read the Meat Racket: http://www.christopherleonard.biz/books/the-meat-racket.html
Apr 27, 2022
Apr 27, 2022
5 min
R-CALF USA's Weekly Address with Bill Bullard
Addressing MCOOL’s Bogeyman
April 27, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
45 min
With the future of the American cattle industry hanging in the balance and the loss of over half a million cattle producers since 1980, it's clear something has to change. What can we do to help bring back profitability and the beauty of the American cattle industry? How can we learn from the downfalls of the hog and chicken industries? We sat down to talk current legislation, competition, vertical integration, and a changing cattle industry with generational Iowa cattle feeder and R-CALF USA Vice President Eric Nelson.