R-CALF USA's Weekly Address with Bill Bullard 

And What About Trade? 

August 10, 2022

R-CALF USA's Weekly Address with Bill Bullard

It's Bigger Than You Think 

August 3, 2022

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

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.  

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.

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. 

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

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

R-CALF USA's Weekly Address with Bill Bullard

Addressing MCOOL’s Bogeyman    

April 27, 2022