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...
by Texas Slim | Nov 21, 2025 | History, Business, Cowboy Talk
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 deciding what your land was “worth” this quarter. Every...
by Beef News | Nov 12, 2025 | Policy, Business, JBS
On November 7, 2025, President Donald J. Trump ordered the Department of Justice to investigate the Big Four meatpackers for price fixing, collusion, and foreign-controlled market manipulation. It was a dramatic moment—marking the first direct federal strike on an...
by Texas Slim | Nov 10, 2025 | Business, History, Land Rights
The Texas Panhandle didn’t fall to war—it was sold off, one section at a time, in exchange for a building and a promise. By 1882, the Texas Legislature had grown tired of delays. The Capitol in Austin needed to be rebuilt. There wasn’t enough gold in the treasury to...
