by Beef News | Jun 26, 2025 | Cowboy Talk, Business
Trent Loos isn’t mincing words. “We are sitting here on the brink of destroying the infrastructure for the beef business,” he declared on his latest episode of Dakota Trails and Tails. His concern? That America is becoming dangerously dependent on imported beef—while...
by Beef News | Jun 19, 2025 | Technology, Business
You walk into Whole Foods and something feels off. The freezers are half-stocked. Aisles that used to scream abundance are patchy and quiet. By mid-afternoon, staff are apologizing for missing shipments, and even the barcode scanners start glitching. The culprit? A...
by Beef News | Jun 16, 2025 | Business
In one of the most brazen agricultural frauds in recent memory, Agridime LLC—a Fort Worth–based cattle investment startup—has been ordered to pay $102,936,904 in restitution after a federal court declared the company operated a Ponzi scheme from October 2021 to...
by Beef News | Jun 15, 2025 | Business, Farm Policy
UPDATED ON JUNE 17, 2025: Trump doubles-back and continues ICE raids in the agricultural sector. On June 13, 2025, Brazilian meat giant JBS quietly slipped onto the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker JBSAY, fulfilling its long-sought ambition to tap American...
by Beef News | Jun 14, 2025 | Farm Policy, Business, Health
In an extraordinary reversal on May 6, 2025, North Carolina lawmakers scrapped a proposed ban on raw milk sales in the annual Farm Act, opting instead to study broader availability after a wave of bipartisan pressure and public outrage. Once condemned by Agriculture...
by Beef News | Jun 11, 2025 | Business, Farm Policy
Solar energy is eating American farmland alive—and no one’s hitting the brakes. While media cheer every new solar installation as a “win” for the climate, the land underneath those panels tells another story: it’s prime cropland, disappearing fast. According to...