The first meatpacking strike in 40 years just took 5% of U.S. beef offline — while mega-feedlots tighten their grip and Washington signs deals on 240 million federal acres. The cartel is consolidating.
Four developments landed in a 48-hour window. Here’s what’s moving the market — and what’s moving the mission.
The 2026 voluntary rule closed the lie — you can’t call Argentine trimmings “Product of USA” anymore. But a packer who doesn’t want to label simply doesn’t, and right now 80,000 metric tons of foreign trimmings are flowing into your ground beef with no label required at all.
State lost 670,000 acres of farmland between 2002 and 2022
Questions remain after NextEra has declined to comment publicly on its plans, and no details have been released on the number of turbines, total capacity, timeline, or exact footprint.
While local FSA offices told ranchers they’d “heard nothing” about the $700 million USDA Regenerative Pilot Program, Canadian fertilizer giant Nutrien — backed by BlackRock and Vanguard — was already positioning to capture $300 million of it. Farmers First, indeed.
How a single size standard launders Big Ag subsidies as small business aid — and why every “fix” without redefinition is theater.
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.
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.
