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...
by Beef News | Apr 18, 2025 | Beef Maps, Cowboy Talk, Culture
This week’s Beef Maps X Spaces cut straight to the heart of what’s choking out independent ranchers—imported beef, regulatory bottlenecks, and false labeling. From South American feedlots to USDA certification games, the barriers to entry aren’t just...
by Beef News | Apr 10, 2025 | Beef Maps, Business, Cowboy Talk
This week’s Beef Maps X Spaces was more than a meeting—it was a movement. From the voice of a son who lost his mother in Philadelphia to the wisdom of generational ranchers in Colorado and Iowa, this conversation tied emotion to action, grit to gratitude. The Beef...
by Beef News | Mar 27, 2025 | Beef Maps, Business, Cowboy Talk
From ranching families in Colorado to first-generation beef producers in Illinois, this week’s Beef Maps X Spaces brought together a national chorus of voices fighting to reclaim food sovereignty. Led by Ranch Mama Shanen and RS “Ruffshot” June, the conversation...
