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 9, 2025 | Business, Farm Policy, Health
After nearly a year of emergency closures, U.S. cattle ports are beginning to reopen—starting with Douglas, Arizona, with Columbus and Santa Teresa, New Mexico expected next. That means live cattle from Mexico are once again flowing north, tagged, dipped, and...
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 | Jul 1, 2025 | Land Rights, Business, Farm Policy
It was never hidden—but it almost slid through anyway. Buried deep in the Senate version of Trump’s megabill was a 10-year ban on state-level AI regulation. The language threatened to cut off access to a new $500 million federal AI fund for any state daring to pass...
by Beef News | Jul 1, 2025 | Climate, Business, Farm Policy
“Property taxes are what’s putting families out of business. This bill makes that worse. And you’re backing it because of a death tax talking point?” — Trent Loos It was supposed to be about death tax relief. Instead, the Senate’s sweeping agriculture-and-tax...
by Beef News | Jun 29, 2025 | Farm Policy, Land Rights
In 1998, the USDA told the truth. Then they buried it. Before “regenerative” became a buzzword and “climate-smart” became a cover story, a group of farmers, researchers, and rural advocates delivered a warning—and a way out. Their 120-page report, A Time to Act, was...
