by Beef News | Jul 23, 2025 | Culture, Farm Policy, Land Rights
In Oregon, it’s still legal to install a solar farm on agricultural land. But don’t even think about selling marionberry jam from your neighbor’s crop stand, hosting a flower-arranging class, or serving soup under a tent. Under the Oregon Department of...
by Beef News | Jul 22, 2025 | Farm Policy, Business, Culture, Milk
It starts with a rotary parlor and a thousand cows. Before the sun comes up in Mandan, North Dakota, Dawson Holle is managing crews, driving the semi to pick up corn or straw, and fielding legislative calls from the Capitol. He’s 21. He’s the youngest elected lawmaker...
by Beef News | Jul 11, 2025 | Business, Culture, Farm Policy
The largest meat company in the world isn’t American—and it isn’t clean. It’s JBS , a Brazilian behemoth with a rap sheet that reads like a corporate RICO indictment: bribery, money laundering, price fixing, deforestation, and cartel-linked cattle laundering. Now it’s...
by Beef News | Jul 4, 2025 | Culture, Business, Farm Policy
The Douglas’ Home on the TV Show Green Acres “They canceled anything with a tree in it.”—Pat Buttram (actor, Green Acres) on CBS’s sweeping rural purge In 1971, two quiet purges reshaped America. One struck the land. The other struck the airwaves. The first came...
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 | Mar 20, 2025 | Beef Maps, Culture, Make America Healthy Again, Podcast
The fight for food sovereignty is personal. RS “Ruffshot” June grew up in Philadelphia—about as far from cattle country as you can get. His journey into the beef industry wasn’t planned. It was fueled by loss. After watching his mother struggle under the...
