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🔥 Hero of the Day - Sampson Family Farm, Live Oak FL
In 2015 they became the first farm in Florida certified grassfed by A Greener World. Jeff and Janet Sampson had been ranching for 30 years before that. The whole story is at SampsonFamilyFarm.com
Black Angus born, raised, and finished on their own North Florida pasture. Rotational grazing with Katahdin sheep. No hormones. No antibiotics. No animal by-products.
Two generations. One standard: the beef they sell is the beef they feed their own family.
Rancher Direct Certified.
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🚨 WHO WANTS TO NAME THE NEW BULL CALF
Name him and your Thanksgiving turkey is covered.
He came late last night in the first real rain we've had in a while. White calf, up on his feet and moving around the pasture already, and mama is keeping a close eye on him. Another classic Cole baby.
Drop your pick in the replies and I'll pick the winner Friday.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
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Richard Clary runs his family's ranch outside Olive, Montana, in Powder River County. He moved the operation down from North Dakota in 2012 and bought the place. His son Marshall came back in 2020 to take it over.
Shipping day starts at daylight. Two bunches of cattle. Big steers cut off, heifers pulled, light steers penned separate, then the second bunch through the same sort.
A portable scale gets set in the corral. A Montana Department of Livestock brand inspector clears every animal on the spot. Weights written down, truck loaded, cattle gone.
Montana charges one dollar a head for that inspection. It is required before ownership changes and the seller has to call for it. The state does the legal work at the corral.
The steers sold on Superior Livestock's Country Page, where the seller posts his own asking price instead of taking what a ring hands him. Clary has sold to the same buyer five straight years.
A sale barn takes 2 to 4 percent of the gross, plus yardage.
Clary said the gain is the rest of the day: "without trucking them cattle somewhere and sitting at a sale barn and waiting."
The rest of that day went to weaning heifers on the same ground.
@SuperiorAuction
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America loses about 40 farms a day. The cattle herd is the smallest since 1951. Buy direct and your money goes to the family that raised it.
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Mexico's cattle federation closed its convention in Saltillo on October 20 with a warning about an American country-of-origin label.
Its president, Homero GarcÃa de la Llata, called it a label that "would discriminate against Mexican calves and beef."
He said CNOG has worked to keep that label off Mexican cattle.
In the same speech he asked his own government for no duty-free beef import quotas in 2027, citing 1.7 million head left unexported and a 500,000-ton beef surplus.
So Mexico wants protection from imported beef at home while working to keep an American label off the calves it ships north.
The Senate farm bill carries mandatory country-of-origin labeling. The House bill does not.
Congress returns November 9.
Congress repealed beef COOL once before, in December 2015, after WTO rulings went against it for Canada and Mexico.
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Texas built one door for property tax complaints and then took away the board's authority to open it.
You get a protest form for your own house. You can argue your value is too high. You cannot argue the whole county's values were set to fund a budget.
The board you sit in front of is the Appraisal Review Board, an administrative body with statutory authority only. Its power over the law is zero.
Plaintiffs in the Denton County case spell out the chain. The state makes the ARB the exclusive forum, strips the ARB of any power to grant constitutional relief, requires you to exhaust it anyway, then uses that exhaustion to close the courthouse.
Federal rights stay recognized on paper and become unenforceable in practice. They describe the result as taxation without representation and without remedy.
As Real Estate Mindset laid out this week, that chain runs under every county roll in the country. The method gets challenged, the challenge gets routed to a panel that can only touch one parcel, and the method survives untouched.
The county sets the number. The board reviews the number. Nobody ever rules on whether the number was legal to build.
I run cattle on land I hold the deed to. After that breakdown, the deed looks a lot like a permission slip.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
In 1864 José Andrés Sepúlveda sold 48,803 acres of the California coastal plain for $18,000. Thirty-six cents an acre.
Los Angeles County ran about 70,000 head of cattle. Two rainless winters killed more than seven in ten of them, and the families who counted their wealth in livestock were broke.
The buyers were a partnership of three: James Irvine, who sold goods to gold miners in San Francisco, Benjamin Flint, Thomas Flint, and Llewellyn Bixby, sheep and cattlemen out of the north.
Two years later they took Rancho Lomas de Santiago, 47,226 acres, for $7,000. Fifteen cents an acre. With part of a third grant the holding reached about 108,000 acres, nearly a fifth of Orange County.
In 1876 Irvine bought his partners out for $150,000 and held all of it.
Every step was legal and quiet. The rain failed, and the ground moved from families who had held that plain for generations to men who watched the drought from a counting house on San Francisco Bay.
That ground is the city of Irvine. The Irvine Company, private, no public shares, holds about 93,000 acres of Orange County under one owner. Joan Irvine Smith, the founder's granddaughter, was bought out in 1990.
The Irvine ground paid because a city grew on it. A working ranch gets paid for what the forage does. NBO3 has fed over a million head, Kansas State research behind it, microalgae on soil and in the tub.
One loop for land and calf is what BetterFedFoods.com is for.
Sepúlveda's problem was that land was the only thing he could sell. A ranch that sells its beef direct collects the margin the middleman keeps, so a bad year does not put the acres on the block.
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Bill Bullard of R-CALF USA: "A corporation does not have to buy your ranch to take away your independence. It only has to gain enough control over who can buy your cattle and on what terms."
Walmart's reach, he says, runs from cattle genetics to the meat case.
Nobody has to buy the ranch. Control of the buyer costs less.
A rancher selling his own beef does not wait on that answer.
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Mexico's cattle federation closed its convention in Saltillo on October 20 with a warning about an American country-of-origin label.
Its president, Homero GarcÃa de la Llata, called it a label that "would discriminate against Mexican calves and beef."
He said CNOG has worked to keep that label off Mexican cattle.
In the same speech he asked his own government for no duty-free beef import quotas in 2027, citing 1.7 million head left unexported and a 500,000-ton beef surplus.
So Mexico wants protection from imported beef at home while working to keep an American label off the calves it ships north.
The Senate farm bill carries mandatory country-of-origin labeling. The House bill does not.
Congress returns November 9.
Congress repealed beef COOL once before, in December 2015, after WTO rulings went against it for Canada and Mexico.
The label fight is over who gets to say where the beef came from.
The ranchers who carried the risk to raise it are still findable one at a time. 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com
Richard Clary runs his family's ranch outside Olive, Montana, in Powder River County. He moved the operation down from North Dakota in 2012 and bought the place. His son Marshall came back in 2020 to take it over.
Shipping day starts at daylight. Two bunches of cattle. Big steers cut off, heifers pulled, light steers penned separate, then the second bunch through the same sort.
A portable scale gets set in the corral. A Montana Department of Livestock brand inspector clears every animal on the spot. Weights written down, truck loaded, cattle gone.
Montana charges one dollar a head for that inspection. It is required before ownership changes and the seller has to call for it. The state does the legal work at the corral.
The steers sold on Superior Livestock's Country Page, where the seller posts his own asking price instead of taking what a ring hands him. Clary has sold to the same buyer five straight years.
A sale barn takes 2 to 4 percent of the gross, plus yardage.
Clary said the gain is the rest of the day: "without trucking them cattle somewhere and sitting at a sale barn and waiting."
The rest of that day went to weaning heifers on the same ground.
@SuperiorAuction
The truck leaves and the heifers stay. Weaning is when a calf gets sick.
Jim and Deane LaRue, 25 years at 6,500 feet in Colorado, reported fewer sick calves.
A calf crop that stays healthy through weaning is what BetterFedFoods.com is for.
Clary priced his own cattle and kept the afternoon. A rancher who sets his own price still needs a buyer who can find him.
That is the map BeefMaps.com keeps, ranch by ranch.
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Mexico wants protection from imported beef at home while working to keep an American label off its calves.
Ranchers on both sides of that line get the same treatment from packers who would rather not say where a pound of beef was born.
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50 of 50 yearling bulls tested very well at Windmill Ranch in Haigler, Nebraska, reported as the best ever in 70 years of ranching there.
An animal that performs on grass is what BetterFedFoods.com is for.
