It's a new season of the R-CALF USA Round Up! On this episode, Karina Jones and Jaiden Moreland sat down with Indiana producer and rural advocate Greg Gunthorp to discuss global corporation agriculture, local food systems, advocating for rural America, competitive markets, and more.

If you’ve been watching on social media, you’ll know the R-CALF USA staff and board have been busy, busy from the White House to cattle markets to planning for the 2023 Convention we covered it all with President Brett Kenzy and Vice President Eric Nelson.

Join us for our 2023 convention, on August 17 and 18, in Rapid City, SD. For more information visit www.rcalfconvention.com

Gene editing, broken cattle markets, RFID tags, we cover it all with Steve Stratford and Chris Earl as this episode focuses on giving a voice to independent seed stock producers, the dangers of so-called vertical cooperation, and the realities of replacing the value of reputations in the US cattle industry.

On this episode, we sit down with Iowa State’s Lee Schulz and discuss his work, his research into multiplant coordination in the beef industry, the processes of that research and what he’d like to see moving toward cattle market reforms. 

This episode is sponsored by York Ag. Visit www.yorkag.com for more information. 

Iowa state study: https://www.card.iastate.edu/products/publications/synopsis/?p=1343

There are many things going on in our industry and organization and we think it’s important to do a “temperature check” and check-in. So we checked in with Brett Kenzy, Eric Nelson and Bill Bullard to talk about R-CALF USA’s 2023 Farm Bill Platform and the progression of the strategies outlined in the 2021 Cattle Industry Long Range Plan.

This episode is sponsored by Kinetic Vet. For more information visit www.kineticvet.com or visit them on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or YouTube.

At our 2022 convention, R-CALF USA members passed policy in support of southern border enforcement, acknowledging that the influx of illegal immigration is harming not only southwestern ranchers and rural communities, but also rural communities around the country. We sat down with New Mexico rancher, Erica Valdez to learn the realities of border life and ranching in an often forgotten and defenseless area of our country.

This episode was sponsored by Range Magazine. Visit www.rangemagazine.com for more information. 

In today’s world, monopolies reach into every fabric of our lives, in agriculture we are all too familiar, but let's talk about the monopolies in almost every other industry. What has happened to the strict antitrust laws and antimonopoly behavior our country was founded upon? Where do we go from here? Join us as we discuss just that and more with Matt Stoller.

This episode is sponsored by Mason & Morse Ranch Company. Visit their website www.RanchLand.com for more information.

Show Notes:

https://www.economicliberties.us/matt-stoller/ 

https://mattstoller.substack.com/

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Goliath/Matt-Stoller/9781501182891 

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/beef-is-expensive-so-why-are-cattle

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/economists-to-cattle-ranchers-stop 

On today’s episode, we discuss the World Trade Organization, trade, tariffs and more as they relate to agriculture, the cattle industry and our country with Charles Benoit from the Coalition for a Prosperous America.

This episode is sponsored by Ag Risk Advisors. Visit their website https://agriskadvisors.com for more information. 

On today’s episode, I sit down with South Dakota Stockgrowers Association President and R-CALF USA Checkoff Committee Chair Vaughn Meyer at the Black Hills Stock Show and discuss Stockgrowers, the beef checkoff, and the needed reforms to move our industry forward.  

This episode is sponsored by the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association. Visit their website www.southdakotastockgrowers.org for more information. 

The dairy industry has long been a staple of American diets and rural America, but much like their beef counterparts, the dairy industry we once knew is quickly disappearing. Today we visit with Deborah Mills, of National Dairy Producers Organization and discuss consolidation, cattle industry policies, and checkoff programs.  

This episode is sponsored by Grossenburg Implement Inc. Visit their website https://www.grossenburg.com for more information!