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 Texas Slim | Nov 6, 2025 | Business, Cowboy Talk, History
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, hunting bison, rendering fat, living free. Now that land...
by Beef News | Aug 2, 2025 | Business, Cowboy Talk
Republished from Mike Calicrate’s NoBull Concentration and Consolidation has Destroyed the World’s Food Systems In 2000, IBP president and CEO, Robert Peterson said, “Those who fight consolidation in the food industry will not be able to compete in world...
by Beef News | Jul 7, 2025 | Health, Business, Cowboy Talk
On July 7, 2025, the USDA will reopen the U.S.-Mexico cattle border under a phased biosecurity protocol. The agency insists the move is justified: no northward screwworm spread in eight weeks, a surge in sterile fly deployment, and updated import restrictions that...
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 Wire | May 1, 2025 | Podcast, Cowboy Talk, Farm Policy
By Trent Loos In this episode of Dakota Trails and Tales, host Trent Loos discusses the dismissed charges against Charles and Heather Maude. In the summer of 2024, Charles and Heather Maude were arrested in front of their two small children, having been accused of...
