The U.S. beef cow herd just flashed its first expansion signal since 2017. Here’s why it won’t matter — unless Washington acts in the next 18 months.
The Green Shoot America Can’t Afford to Miss
The last time America had this few beef cows, Eisenhower was president. The USDA NASS January 2026 Cattle Report confirmed it in plain numbers: 27.6 million beef cows that have calved — smallest since 1961. Total cattle and calves at 86.2 million, a 75-year low. The...
Latest News
THE RIDE OF PASSAGE: I RODE INTO THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE SO YOUR BEEF DIDN’T HAVE TO
I went to the Golden Triangle in December 2023 because I needed to see the machine with my own eyes. By 2025, the world finally caught up.
JBS IS PLAYING WITH FIRE — AND CATTLE MARKETS KNOW IT
A 99% strike vote. Collapsed bargaining. A 7-day clock ticking toward midnight. The biggest meatpacking plant in Colorado is days away from going dark — and taking futures with it.
Break Up the Bottleneck: Washington Finally Notices the Meat Cartel — Right as America Runs Out of Cattle
America’s cattle herd is at a 75-year low—right as Washington finally decides to confront the meatpacking cartel. When supply collapses and four companies control the kill floor, the bottleneck becomes the market.
Lubbock Feeders: Seventy Years. Then the Dependence Broke.
For seventy years, Lubbock Feeders moved cattle across the South Plains like clockwork — until the feeder pipeline it depended on ran dry. When a closed border collided with the smallest U.S. herd since 1951, a 50,000-head machine discovered just how fragile modern cattle infrastructure has become.
Texas Slim & The Beef Initiative Secured Beef.com!
Beef Support
Partnerships
Featured Producers
Culture
Living Mythologies of 21st Century Agriculture
The Finite Era: How Texas Kept Ranch Debt Honest
If you rode into the Texas Panhandle in 1898, you were stepping into a different financial universe. No perpetual “operating lines.”No rolling paper stacked on top of last year’s mistakes.No banker in a tower...
The Bison Corridor: How We Defeated Extinction — and How We Can Again
Out here, the wind still talks. It moves across Palo Duro Canyon, the same red-walled fortress the Comanches once called home — their oasis, their refuge, their food chain. For three centuries they thrived here,...
Videos
“Pesticide Immunity Is Built on a Lie”: Dr. Alexandra Muñoz on the Hidden Chemistry of Section 453
The EPA doesn’t test pesticides—it trusts the companies that make them. And when those companies have a history of falsifying data, the label isn’t science. It’s marketing.
Walmart Isn’t Feeding the Free Market—It’s Managing It
R-CALF USA warns: Corporate control over your dinner plate is nearly complete.
More Articles
JBS IS PLAYING WITH FIRE — AND CATTLE MARKETS KNOW IT
A 99% strike vote. Collapsed bargaining. A 7-day clock ticking toward midnight. The biggest meatpacking plant in Colorado is days away from going dark — and taking futures with it.
From MAHA to… Make American Biotech Accelerate? The Pharma Memo That Captured a Movement
A leaked memo from the biotech lobby reveals a plan to neutralize RFK Jr.—not by confronting him, but by co-opting the language of reform. Now that same script is being deployed nationwide through biometric wearables, national security buzzwords, and behavioral scoring systems dressed up as public health. MAHA didn’t stop the Pharma cartel—it may have just scaled it.
Raw Farm Op-Ed: They May Have the Guns and the Money, But We Have the Truth and the Moms
Big Dairy pushes profits over people, but pioneers like Mark McAfee of Raw Farm are fighting back with the truth. Discover why raw milk is more than just milk—it’s a movement for health, integrity, and freedom.
America The Titanic – Managing After Impact with the Disastrous Biden/Harris Iceberg
America stands at a critical tipping point. This policy paper warns that recent federal resilience initiatives, advanced under the banner of equity, have centralized control across nearly all aspects of American life—from local governance to individual choices. To protect the foundational freedoms of America’s farmers and ranchers, the I Am Texas Slim Foundation calls for immediate executive actions to dismantle these mandates and restore power to communities, pushing back against what they describe as a coordinated agenda of control disguised as resilience.
The Green Shoot America Can’t Afford to Miss
The U.S. beef cow herd just flashed its first expansion signal since 2017. Here’s why it won’t matter — unless Washington acts in the next 18 months.
THE RIDE OF PASSAGE: I RODE INTO THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE SO YOUR BEEF DIDN’T HAVE TO
I went to the Golden Triangle in December 2023 because I needed to see the machine with my own eyes. By 2025, the world finally caught up.
Break Up the Bottleneck: Washington Finally Notices the Meat Cartel — Right as America Runs Out of Cattle
America’s cattle herd is at a 75-year low—right as Washington finally decides to confront the meatpacking cartel. When supply collapses and four companies control the kill floor, the bottleneck becomes the market.
Lubbock Feeders: Seventy Years. Then the Dependence Broke.
For seventy years, Lubbock Feeders moved cattle across the South Plains like clockwork — until the feeder pipeline it depended on ran dry. When a closed border collided with the smallest U.S. herd since 1951, a 50,000-head machine discovered just how fragile modern cattle infrastructure has become.