by Beef News | Mar 25, 2026 | Policy, Business, Imports
USDA launched productofusa.gov with a hero image, an animated floating label, and a tagline: “Tastes Like Freedom.” The site promises “100% Transparency” and walks American producers through a three-step process for displaying the Product of...
by Beef News | Mar 16, 2026 | Farm Policy, Business
By Trent Loos – Written for the High Plains Journal I have received a number of phone calls in the past 30 days from guys who have been in their local FSA office asking about the $700 million Regenerative Pilot Program. They called me because each one of them...
by Beef News | Mar 11, 2026 | Business, Farm Policy
Everyone in Washington is talking about rebuilding independent meat processing. Nobody is talking about the reason every attempt fails before the money clears. It isn’t bureaucratic inefficiency. It isn’t underfunding. It isn’t even regulatory burden...
by Beef News | Feb 24, 2026 | Imports, Business, Policy
For seventy years, Lubbock Feeders stood as one of the foundational engines of the South Plains cattle economy — a 50,000-head yard that fed more than five million cattle and anchored an entire local ecosystem of corn growers, truckers, veterinarians, packers, and...
by Beef News | Feb 22, 2026 | Farm Policy, Business, Health
For four decades, American farmers have been told chemical inputs are necessary to maintain production. At the same time, side-by-side field trials have quietly shown that diversified systems can match conventional yields after transition — and outperform them in...
by Beef News | Jan 9, 2026 | Policy, Business, Health
Everyone’s talking about restored grazing access. Few are asking: how are ranchers supposed to stock that land if they can’t afford the cattle? In October 2025, the Trump administration—via Secretary Brooke Rollins (USDA), Doug Burgum (DOI), and RFK Jr. (HHS)—formally...
