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Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan discuss the weeks events including Presidents Trump's farmers roundtable and pay out plan, King family ranch fight with the state of Washington, and how the Beef Checkoff is funding school programs to teach kids that cattle are harmful to the climate.

0:00 Intro/Fortune Ranch Sale/Christmas present

4:41 President Trumps farmer roundtable and payout

19:48 Food supply chain security task force and anti-trust investigation

25:42 King Ranch fight with the state of Washington

35:08 Beef Checkoff funded school lessons that blame cattle for climate change

1:01:00 National Final Rodeo

Beef Checkoff Lesson: Methane and Cattle: A Climate Connection:

Threatens to Pull Washington State Funding Over King Ranch Case

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Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan go over the interview with Brook Rollins, diving deeper into some of the topics and breaking down some of the good and bad reaction. Youth correspondent Sage Mundorf also gives her reaction and fills the boys in on the 67 craze.

0:00 Intro/Palmer Angus

2:30 How the Rollins interview came about.

9:50 Reactions to the interview

11:44 Questions asked and not asked

16:18 The objectives going in.

21:10 Market reaction and border certainty.

24:17 Anti-trust focus

25:23 Property rights and the Susette Kelo case.

30:22 Sage's reaction.

32:18 Shad's FFA experience.

37:20 What is 6-7?

The Brooke Rollins interview

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Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan discuss the state of the cattle industry with the Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. Topics covered are market volatility, Mexican border staying closed, beef packer investigation, USDA's beef plan, and more.

0:00 Intro

1:20 Recent cattle market volatility

5:50 Mexican border reopening plan

11:25 Screw worm fly facilities

13:52 Beef packer investigation

17:32 Lexington Nebraska beef plant closing

25:03 USDA's plan to fortify the beef industry and strengthen ranching

29:40 Fighting for property rights

35:32 Importance of FFA and moving the charter seat to the USDA

39:47 Finding out about becoming Secretary of Ag in a Walmart parking lot.

USDA's Plan to Fortify the American Beef Industry

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Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan discuss the latest events in the cattle industry and why President Trump is facing criticism from cattle producers.

0:00 Have cattlemen lost faith in President Trump

2:47 Shad breaks down the timeline of everything that has happened in the last few weeks.

14:17 The myth of uniting the cattle industry.

23:10 The importance of independence.

34:45 America First Policy Institutes Lawfare Advisory Council

39:10 Canadian ostriches killed.

40:55 Bovaer feed additive cattle deaths in Denmark

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Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan break down every aspect of what President Trump's message announcing an investigation into meatpacking corporations.

0:00 Intro/Trump announces the investigation into meatpackers

14:11 California Congressman Ro Khanna visits Shad's ranch.

24:42 Meatpacking's history of corruption.

31:35 Revisiting the 2019 Holcomb KS. Beef plant fire and market manipulation

38:15 USDA's 2020 investigation into the meat-packing industry.

40:35 Current investigation 45:49 NCBA's deafening silence

51:42 Jim's trip to Montana and the Rocky Mountain Livestock Association

54:56 Thank you Veterans, Shad's poem Brody, Bill, and Shawn.

Rocky Mountain Livestock Association

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Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan recap all the drama in the cattle industry over the past couple of weeks.

0:00 Intro

1:15 Who is the Common Ground Coalition

10:04 Turning down Trump's invitation to the White House

26:40 Unifying the cattle industry

30:00 Harriet Hageman interview recap

31:17 Beef Checkoff border closure post

34:10 American Angus Association's convention and their rejection of new blood.

39:50 Secretary Rollins is the best

46:20 Western Livestock Journal blames Jack Payne

52:45 Prime Act

53:51 California's Prop 50 and the continued attack on rural California.

Harriet Hageman interview

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Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan have a discussion with Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman regarding President Trump's comment on beef prices, trade with Argentina, Mcool, EID tags and more.

00:00 Intro

00:36 The government shutdown

1:40 President Trump's Argentinian beef comments

6:56 Mandatory Country of Origin Label on beef and what it would do.

9:32 Mcool and Mandated electronic ID tags on cattle.

12:16 U.S. herd size and the policy that impacts it.

13:15 What the Conservation Reserve Program has done to rural America.

19:35 Certainty and stability in commodity markets

24:00 Differences in the Biden and Trump administrations

30:50 Ag lobby in D.C. and the Prime Act

33:43 USDA's Beef Industry Plan

39:35 Rescinding Brazilian tariffs.

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Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan break down President Trump's Truth Social post that was directly aimed at American Cattle Ranchers. Why was it sent and its massive, disastrous impact on the cattle market.

Update: The Common Ground Coalition has stated that they declined the invitation to attend the announcement of USDA Plan to Fortify the American Beef Industry in the Oval Office.

USDA Plan to Fortify the American Beef Industry

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Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan discuss the week in news and agriculture. This weeks news was dominated by President Trump's comments about importing beef from Argentina to reduce retail beef prices in the U.S. They also discussed another incrediblely important topic, a bill that has been introduced to end grazing on federal lands.

0:00 Trump tanks the cattle market.

34:26 Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act, and what it would do to ranching in the west.

Jack Paynes article: Cheap Imports Do Not Equal Cheap Beef

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Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan discuss the week in news and agriculture.

0:00 Intro

2:00 The bailout of Argentina and their soybean sale.

6:39 How the U.S. exported their agriculture production to Brazil.

20:15 How the cattle industry is pushing to export their profits to Brazil.

24:26 Beef price fixing lawsuit.

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