NOW I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED 🇺🇸 GOD BLESS THIS WONDERFUL MAN 🇺🇸 HE FOUND A WAY TO SURVIVE & I PRAY🙏🤲 TO GOD TO BLESS HIM & HE CAN PUT ALL HIS PREVIOUS EMPLOYEES BACK TO WORK W/HIM 😊🇺🇸❤ GOD BLESS U DEARLY SWEET MAN🙏🤲🕊✝️😇❤
This man is sharing his whole heart and soul. He loves his herds, feeds them well which affects meat all the way up to the smoker/chef in his store. This is where health happens. Healthy animal products need to be sourced and supported.
This information is ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS!!! As a carnivore, I live 5 hours away from Colorado Springs and would be absolutely willing to drive to his store there, buy a lot of his frozen beef and pork and drive all the way back home with it just to support him. I refuse to buy the awful, bad-tasting beef from those big, evil, monopolizing meat packers who supply meat found in Albertson's, Walmart and other supermarkets. I am on a mission to support local ranchers and employees, to vote with my dollars for the best beef that will send the message to the monopolizers that I do NOT support their idiocy of choosing profits over people and proper nourishment. Period. Thank you, Trinity, for this fantastic interview and education!
Legislate and limit how much any one person or corporation can farm to say 400 to 600 acres. In Canada that's huge but some are larger. But average small farm in Ontario is 100 acres. That would limit the corporations from taking over. You guys need legislation just like they are using against small farmers by classification of what and ow much they farm vs the large corporation farmers that should be forced to break apart any farms over the 400 to 600 acres mark. Is that enough land for most small farmers in operation now? I hope so but I don't know for sure. I would have to say that ranching and farming also use different amounts of real-estate right?.
@@donharper7759 problem is, this man is operating in commerce, unless he's private. Operating in commerce subjects that business to the rules of the STATE.
This guys lived experience should be a lesson for all of us younger folk. Big business and govt have worked hand in hand for decades to bring us to where we are at today. Food prices are astronimical, people are sicker than ever, and small businesses have been forcred out of the market. Generations before us were sold the lie and we are now seeing how the lie has unfolded for us regular folk. Bigger is not always better. For those of us able to we need to get back to supporting small business owners, local community and local producers. Your country was founded on this and it has unfortunately been hijacked by corrupt greed.
@@reginafisher9919 agreed, but for different reason. We are presumed contracted as US Citizens, and thus bound to the corporations that own/operate the government. My question is, is there a way to terminate/cancel the contracts and redeem the bonds, and become separate and private from these corporations?
There’s gotta be a way to even the playing field against corporate greed for the ranchers /small business owners here in THE USA (Small businesses are the bread and butter of our economy here )
I was a butcher and then a market manager for a large grocery chain back in the 1970’s. They brought us boxes of IBP to do a test run on. Without exception, all of the market managers did not like the product and didn’t want it in their market. The product had not hung for 14 days and was a smelly and wet product. Several years later, we were no longer butchering carcass beef. Money always wins.
It’s the same thing with vegetables. What you grow at home is 10x better the what the store sells! We need to go back to small farms feeding the community’s, the way it was in our grandparents days and before!
You should see what the state of Oregon is doing to the small farmers and meat,dairy.and egg production. Google Oregons stance on small farmers it’s disgusting. Wake up America
It isn’t just democrats it is also republicans they both are responsible for this problem under bush jr jbs was allowed to just walk in and with in I think or 2years buy up almost 30 percent of beef market and the rest of the meat processing industry then trump allowed dfa to take control of the dairy industry in 2019 and 2020
Thsnks for the information. There is a group of ranchers in Utah doing the same thing. This is what it takes to get big business out of our lives! Thanks Trinity!
Big business is big because they are doing a better job than little business. Big businesses start small. They understood vertical integration and economies of scale while the "little guy" never did. Don't punish success, think bigger.
S.E. Idaho is doing the same. Ball bros. just built a new meat packer here in Idaho Falls. Idaho grows good meat. Our hay is sought for, because it's grown in lava rich topsoil, the same as our potatoes. We have excellent dairys here as well.
@Sugarsail1 WRONG! There is collusion and corruption. The big multinationals are "Donating" to the politicians legally AND illegally. How do you think politicians make millions per year on a $250k salary, not to mention getting caught with piles of cash and gold bars
wow. As an agriculture business student. This video should be shown as a golden example to young farmers who want to help their community and keep their family farm!
Mike should work with someone to spec out the entire system he uses so it can be duplicated and setup in as many locations as possible and then become a large thorn in the side of the giant meat packers. This would also be a benefit for the cattle ranchers and hog producers.
It’s not hard to duplicate this system. Have a LOT of land. Have water rights. Have a custom butcher building. Staff it with skilled craftsman (butchers). Have a retail sales location. Have good friendly cottage industry laws. Have dedicated customers. Easy peasy.
It’s really old school here in East Texas. Hundreds of Cattle standing on the edge of ponds surrounded by lush grassy fields or wandering freely in acres of ranch land. Then they are off to the auction probably to be sold off to corn finishers and processors. We can find this meat in our own grocery stores, but not in Walmart! What a difference in flavor. I hope this never changes. Our store even has the butchers in the back behind the glass window like years ago.
@@1165slugman there is a big farmers market there. People sell their products from their farms. I moved from S.A. to east texas and so glad I did. It’s there but expensive!
Trump put WIlbur Ross at Commerce lsat time, whom was on the opposite side of these kind of stories. All Ross did his whole career was make Big Business bigger. Trump's Ag Sec was Perdue whose administration was filled with pure political operatives with no Ag experience. Perdue caused many people to resign over relocations so there were fewer people to monitor situations just like the ones in the video. Trump is not the man for this mission.
WOW Trinity such good information. I have not eaten meat for years because the grocery store meat does not taste like "Meat" anymore. I had no idea all of this was happening. Meat Mafia ...UGH
That's a nice operation. The info in the video is top notch. I can't even begin to afford those prices. In the Ozarks I'm getting grass fed angus for $1.50 over retail per pound and even cheaper by quarter or half carcass. Because people here believe in helping the AVERAGE family eat healthier and we support out local farmers. Everyone comes out ahead. Not just the ranchers.
Belonged to Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. Great Job in Greeley CO in the 70's! Meat Diets in those days tasted so much better. Whatever they are putting in meat today ❓GROSS! [popular 60's word! 😄]
One of my cousins was a AMCU meat cutter Butcher who lost his good paying job and trade in Detroit, early 80's, directly as a result of this BS in the US REGIME~
So do I,but I also remember what the union did to their members in British Columbia when a large at the time non union chain came into the market.assesed the existing members to fund unionization campaign,then signed a deal gutting the existing contract of those members.next negotiations the employer threw that contract on the table,said there's our new contract,turning good mortgage capable jobs full time into wage ghetto jobs part time no benefits for all new employees.of course management cut everyone's hrs that were grandfathered theyre wages till no longer viable .union got thousand plus more dues paying members though. Ufcw scummiest thing I've ever seen from a union .
@@joesutherland225 I’ve never been a union fan, but where they have a monopoly through state legislation, it can make for good wages and benefits. I’m generally against regulation and unionization. At the same time, they have been corporatizing and demonizing meat for forty years or more.
@@paulchristian8271 I'm totally pro union it's really the only way to get decent wages and benefits otherwise capital weilds the stick with no concern for the people doing the work. Keep them only 2 weeks from disaster then they can't fight back unless they team up or more correctly unionize
Two very smart men right here! Hopefully people wake the hell up and support community and real beef swine and poultry producers by buying direct from producers
I'm going to a local butcher this week. Their website says they get their beef from Iowa. A local farm, here in Florida, tried starting up a grass fed brand. Their packaging was messed up and air in the package disturbed me. I think they gave it a couple of tries and now they are gone. It looked like sabotage to me. Who the heck would do that?
I listen to a podcast called barn talk on you tube. They have started a mail order producer to consumer deal called Farmer Grade. Actually I work for a grocery outfit that they talked about where there were in store butchers that processed the carcas at store. Wegmans Food Market. About 25 yrs ago they stopped having that done in stores. The butchers were offered the opportunity to get CDL and drive or work elsewhere in distribution. I live in Upstate NY. I have ordered grass fed online from a few places. After listening to this podcast I am going to start to buy from a local meat mrkt in Canaseraga,NY. It is about a 45 minute drive from me but we'll Worth it. Another great you tube podcast is five generations of cowboys. I know nothing about processing meat and have been driving for Wegmans for 25 yrs and drove other places before here.
Government created it and too big to fail. This is not capitalism but crony capitalism thanks to big government and corrupt politicians. Overwhelmingly democrats with help from neocon establishment republicans.
Awesome! We buy as much of our food local as we can, and encourage all friends and family to do the same. We buy all our beef and pork local. People are sick and tired of poor quality food.
This is absolutely true. I found this out to be exactly what he said when I lived in Idaho and we raised or I should say I raised a calf. Purposely use for food on our table. It’s totally flipped and for rancher and Farmers literally impossible to even survive
A grocery store chain in CT (Stop & Shop) doesn't even cut meat in their meat department anymore. It all comes cryovaced from the packing plant now. Awful.
Trinity thanks so much . I hope too go to Kansas and Colorado Springs to see how it all works, this summer . We have a custom exempt plant in Arkansas for 17 yrs and are working on opening a retail market . We raise our own beef. This has been such a inspiration to me . Keep on keeping on . And God bless.
I buy my beef from a friend who is a rancher in Montana...All grass fed, no antibiotics unless really needed. I have a half a cow on the way. Best beef ever. I can't even stand the smell of say Walmart beef. GREAT vid Trinity...keep em comin.
You are so right about the smell of meat at Walmart. My husband commented the last time we went to Walmart that he could smell the meat as he was walking past the meat section, it was that bad. Looking for grass fed beef, no more big box stores.
Agree with most of what you say. However there is nothing better about grass fed beef. Grass fed beef grades lower, and is cheaper to produce. Works with the marketing hype of Angus Breeders Association. You're buying marketing hype! If you notice, the best tasting beef is marbled. Look at Wagyu beef. Buy only Prime, it is not going to be grass fed. That would cost way to much to try to produce!
I agree my daughter is in the cattle Bo. Grass fed dose not have much good flavor,and it’s a lot of hype. The reason to eat locally is the cows usually have a better quality of life , not a lots of stress , antibiotics if needed, quality food and care . All cows eat grass but they have a better taste when finished out with grain for flavor ❤
Another amazing video Trinity. This one really hits home....kinda makes me want to move to CO so I can live in that town and eat all that yummy beef and pork! Thanks again, have a blessed day.
Really appreciate the insight in to the market! We (my family) own a small (1500~ acre) production unit (aka: The Farm! LOL!) that we channel through a (very) good cutter, that is not very happily close to us, and retail our own product locally, relying almost entirely on word of mouth to sell our production. I am immensely glad that we support a small business that provides a VERY good service as a slaughter an cutting house, as we do not yet have the capability locally to support. But I am also immensely happy that I do not have to make my business decisions, upon deciding just how slowly I starve myself to death, either. No Farmers, No Food! Perhaps stopping sending any food in to the cities would make that point clearer, to those who decided to support anti-farming initiatives!
Trinity, another great video! I raise and sell beef locally. I never have complaints about the quality of my beef. It saves customers money and is financially better for me as well. Keep the videos coming. What was the story on the pen of Scottish Highlanders?
Thank you Trinity for this information!! A few months ago you had him or another man talk about this very same PROBLEM! Since then, I've wanted to buy beef from a rancher. Thing is...I'm single and don't need much beef😢 Thank you so much for letting people know ❤❤❤❤❤ HAPPY TRAILS ❤❤❤
I shopped at Ranch Foods Direct all the time! Amazing store. Bought all my dogs raw food there also. Glad to see them getting interviewed. I moved, but a great business.
Amen Trinity!! My Brother-in-law in eastern Montana has 600 head of cattle and can barely make a go of it due to poor/low beef prices. Keep up the good work!!
It reminds me of a TA truck stop in Springfield Missouri the owner raises cattle and sells it in his truck stop best ribeye and brisket at the best price I’ve ever had at any truck stop really appreciate it as a truck driver.
Trinity Absolutely overwhelmed by the knowledge attained from this one video about the beef business and the quality derived.! Please keep it going..! God Bless..! WSG,Sr. aka Sandy PS: Now no missing link - From cow to market.!
We buy from our local college store - better meat and good prices. I actually worked on an independent local feedlot after high school in Southern California, in 1970. Very few kids ever get that chance anymore, especially in California.
Trinity - You knocked it out of the park? Watched lots of your videos but this lit a fire. Been thinking this for years. Together we can take back our world from the cabal. Keep up the great work.
Very interesting piece of doco here bloke. As an observer of the Australian market I see this exact sort of corporate grip on the stock owner as it is in the states. And this in itself is a terrible mistake, especially given the size of the market in Australia. I know many livestock farmers who are under terrible constraint via contract issue, and I wonder when the legislation designed to prevent this will ever be enforced. At least old mate has taken the mob on and seen some semblance of positive result. I also agree with the disdain for supermarket boxed meat distribution, the loss of skilled butchers over here is a real thing, and as sad as it is, the corporate plan to remove small business and grant the consumer the illusion of choice is a true reality for our future generations.
Very interesting & informative video. Keep up the good work. If enough people push back against the “meat mafia”, hopefully things will improve. We can only hope.
Thank you for another great video! I loved Mike's energy and passion for what he does. It is also wonderful that the carnivore and ketogenic way's of eating are mentioned in your videos. Slowly but surely the word is getting out there. BTW. Berkshire pasture raised pork is fantastic! :)
Hi Trinity, thank you for sharing the facts plus exposing the corruption the food industry has. Growing your own foods is becoming the safest way to feed your family. God bless you
Neighbors helping neighbors. This is how to build a strong community. God bless you! Keep up the good fight. This is what makes America the best country in the world!
Wow this is so great to hear this farmer putting out the truth about saturated fat and oils!!! We live in SC there is no place to buy this meat? Where can we buy beef and pork like this?
Thank you, Trinity, for this video.. Now let's get it going here in Montana!!! Enough with these these fools to telling us where and how we are going to get our food!!! Awesome video!!!
There should be a big box movie made from this story. To help build more awareness of the meat industry for Americans and what good families have sadly had to endure over the years. Thank you for doing such an amazing job of documenting all of this always love watching your channel.
These guys had better be sitting in the state capitals, making sure laws and regulations aren't passed to screw them over once again. You can be sure the "free marketers" are working on it right now.
I’ve watched many of your videos over the past couple years and enjoyed them. Today this popped up on my feed presumably because i’ve been a carnivore for the past year or so. I was surprised to see I hadn’t already subscribed to your channel. So i fixed that.
I think all small businesses should bypass big corporations and deal directly with each other’s. That would save our country economy and cattle industry from destruction.
Excellent video. I still get my beef from the ranch I grew up on in Mt. (In the WSS area) I only mention that because I heard you talk about Martinsdale, MT on a video i watched, in the same county. WE grow most of the vegetables we eat and really don't buy any food items from the big box grocery stores. What we do buy we get from or local producers or our small local store in our community. I really think that supporting local farms and families in your area is what makes it a strong country. Thanks for the educational video.
When I was growing up in north alabama we raised our own hogs and chickens. We slaughtered and processed the meat ourselves. That meat and poultry had a much better taste than anything I've ever had since .even now we buy our beef from our neighbor who raised it and had it processed locally. That way you know what you are getting and it's good for the local economy and the community.
Thanks Man another great video! What an eye opener, wish I was closer I would patronize that guy. Just ate some of those inedible pork chops, had to laugh because that’s exactly what I thought…..THIS IS TERRIBLE……ate it anyway, worked all day I was hungry 😂
I went to Colorado Springs in 2021 and spent the night and went to the Rodeo Hall of Fame. Then up to Cheyenne for the Frontier Days Rodeo. Great trip and beautiful area
Thanks Trinity! I really appreciate you using your channel to shine light on this. And while I don’t feel like feedlots are particularly ideal, they’re necessary for large amounts of beef and it sucks when folks can’t make do because of these ridiculously tyrannical megacorporations.
In my case, I like to think of the feedlot as the sacrifice pasture, without the damage of overgrazing. Over the last 10 or so years we have been in a drought. The feedlot gives us a place to go with our cow herd instead of selling them off. It also allows us to increase the herd size for better impact in rotational grazing and is always there if the grass runs out.
Trinity! This video hits home! I love what you’re doing and the content you bring about these topics! Keep it up man!! We need more people like you who talk about this and bring out the truth of what really going on! And bring back local markets with healthy sustainable food sources!
Brilliant descriptive example of how it should be done. This is a prime example of responsible husbandry at work and the flow on in terms of real benefit to people and their communities is enormous. If only this were the norm, would we then need the big multi national companies dictating the terms?
What an excellent insightful video with much to teach us all thank you for sharing what CAN BE DONE instead of the limitations that big business wants to impose on us… very smart man many thanks for all of the food for thought and getting the wheels turning … there is hope out there… stay blessed one and all …
Very informative video. So much information provided here. I would love to see these feedlots, both pig and cow, with overhead shade provided in certain areas of the pens.
This first guy knows exactly what he’s talkin about. I’ve been a butcher/meat cutter my whole life. People who are meat cutters are box beef cutters. They cut meat. Butchers know how to to kill and process an animal from hoof to freezer. I was lucky to do both because in retail grocery stores, you need to make the product look nice to sell and I transferred that over to being a custom butcher. Very few people are left that know how to break an animal and know where all the cuts come from.
Best damn video I’ve watched in a while! We need waaaay more of this! End the industrial complex or we lose our ways of life. I love what this guy did! Excellent video!
I very much admire what he has built there! Wonderful! I can't praise him enough. Sadly though, he is still vulnerable to government fiat nonsense deciding his water isn't good or he's not allowed to use it, or he has to RFID all the animals and lab test them every 6 months for whatever, and so on. . I pray that never happens. Thank you so much for this interview and having him explain how our food supply is being 'corralled' for international corporate profits.
Callicrate for President. I salute his humanity toward his animals, his workers and his community. And I subscribed just because you ended this with "God bless".
TRINITY, THIS PIECE OF WORK IS A SEMESTER'S WORTH OF AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS IN 41 MINUTES.
Shows you how dumbed-down the schools are.
NOW I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED 🇺🇸 GOD BLESS THIS WONDERFUL MAN 🇺🇸 HE FOUND A WAY TO SURVIVE & I PRAY🙏🤲 TO GOD TO BLESS HIM & HE CAN PUT ALL HIS PREVIOUS EMPLOYEES BACK TO WORK W/HIM 😊🇺🇸❤ GOD BLESS U DEARLY SWEET MAN🙏🤲🕊✝️😇❤
This man is sharing his whole heart and soul. He loves his herds, feeds them well which affects meat all the way up to the smoker/chef in his store. This is where health happens. Healthy animal products need to be sourced and supported.
This information is ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS!!! As a carnivore, I live 5 hours away from Colorado Springs and would be absolutely willing to drive to his store there, buy a lot of his frozen beef and pork and drive all the way back home with it just to support him. I refuse to buy the awful, bad-tasting beef from those big, evil, monopolizing meat packers who supply meat found in Albertson's, Walmart and other supermarkets. I am on a mission to support local ranchers and employees, to vote with my dollars for the best beef that will send the message to the monopolizers that I do NOT support their idiocy of choosing profits over people and proper nourishment. Period. Thank you, Trinity, for this fantastic interview and education!
20 names has kroger
Same Corruption happens here in Ireland know for the Best Grass Beef Butter and Cream in the World
Globalist 👹Larry Goodman has monopoly. 🤔🤢🤮
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I would like to try some of the soap also.
Great infomercial!
What a great man, we need people like this in Montana...
We need people like this everywhere
It would be much clearer if you made clear whom you're referring too 😉
In every community.
Someone needs to have him give seminars on how to set up such operations in their area and provide assistance to do it.
It is up to you to be that man. No one else is going to do it for you...
This plan needs to be spread far and wide an get corporations out of the food industry!
Legislate and limit how much any one person or corporation can farm to say 400 to 600 acres. In Canada that's huge but some are larger. But average small farm in Ontario is 100 acres. That would limit the corporations from taking over. You guys need legislation just like they are using against small farmers by classification of what and ow much they farm vs the large corporation farmers that should be forced to break apart any farms over the 400 to 600 acres mark. Is that enough land for most small farmers in operation now? I hope so but I don't know for sure. I would have to say that ranching and farming also use different amounts of real-estate right?.
@@user-sj9cq2xo9y and that is why I live in the USA!
@@donharper7759 problem is, this man is operating in commerce, unless he's private. Operating in commerce subjects that business to the rules of the STATE.
How in the hell do you think this is a good idea when he's charging twice what the beef is worth. Just how did this help you dum dum?
@@weseng1 you obviously know nothing about marketing and sustainability dum dum!
I’ve been telling people this for 30 years and they thought I was stupid
Same but I live on a ranch.
I resemble that comment!
Problem is, those people you're telling are about as stupid as the cattle we raise.
30 years, and still nobody listens. America is too stupid to remain free, or remain well fed.
same for twenty
This guys lived experience should be a lesson for all of us younger folk. Big business and govt have worked hand in hand for decades to bring us to where we are at today. Food prices are astronimical, people are sicker than ever, and small businesses have been forcred out of the market. Generations before us were sold the lie and we are now seeing how the lie has unfolded for us regular folk. Bigger is not always better. For those of us able to we need to get back to supporting small business owners, local community and local producers. Your country was founded on this and it has unfortunately been hijacked by corrupt greed.
Only need to say, WEF, UN and globalism.
@@sydbates6398 That's why I'm a flat-earther! It's the antithesis of globalism and all the deceptions and fraud that has been perpetrated on us.
It doesn't even matter who you vote for! Corporations own the government
@@reginafisher9919 agreed, but for different reason. We are presumed contracted as US Citizens, and thus bound to the corporations that own/operate the government. My question is, is there a way to terminate/cancel the contracts and redeem the bonds, and become separate and private from these corporations?
There’s gotta be a way to even the playing field against corporate greed for the ranchers /small business owners here in THE USA
(Small businesses are the bread and butter of our economy here )
I was a butcher and then a market manager for a large grocery chain back in the 1970’s. They brought us boxes of IBP to do a test run on. Without exception, all of the market managers did not like the product and didn’t want it in their market. The product had not hung for 14 days and was a smelly and wet product. Several years later, we were no longer butchering carcass beef. Money always wins.
It’s the same thing with vegetables. What you grow at home is 10x better the what the store sells! We need to go back to small farms feeding the community’s, the way it was in our grandparents days and before!
You should see what the state of Oregon is doing to the small farmers and meat,dairy.and egg production. Google Oregons stance on small farmers it’s disgusting. Wake up America
It isn’t just democrats it is also republicans they both are responsible for this problem under bush jr jbs was allowed to just walk in and with in I think or 2years buy up almost 30 percent of beef market and the rest of the meat processing industry then trump allowed dfa to take control of the dairy industry in 2019 and 2020
WE NEED TO STOP OVER FEASTING ON MEAT. IT HAS BECOME AN ATTROCITY!
@@THEROOTMATTERSLook up carnivore diet. So many people getting rid of all manner of diseases with it.
@@THEROOTMATTERSno one is forcing you to eat meat
Thsnks for the information. There is a group of ranchers in Utah doing the same thing. This is what it takes to get big business out of our lives! Thanks Trinity!
Please provide info on this Utah group--name, location, website, etc. Thanks.
@@kmweekspe I think they are doing this in Richfield
Big business is big because they are doing a better job than little business. Big businesses start small. They understood vertical integration and economies of scale while the "little guy" never did. Don't punish success, think bigger.
S.E. Idaho is doing the same. Ball bros. just built a new meat packer here in Idaho Falls. Idaho grows good meat. Our hay is sought for, because it's grown in lava rich topsoil, the same as our potatoes. We have excellent dairys here as well.
@Sugarsail1 WRONG! There is collusion and corruption. The big multinationals are "Donating" to the politicians legally AND illegally. How do you think politicians make millions per year on a $250k salary, not to mention getting caught with piles of cash and gold bars
This guy really is up-to-date on current science for health. Love to hear knowledgeable people speaking positively about meat and fat.
Trinity, you knocked it out of the ballpark , again! I’m with you all the way! Keep up the excellent work!❤️🙏🏻✝️🐂
Iam so sick of big food corporations. People stop buying all this garbage...buy local support your local farmers!
Hard to do when they've folded up or sold out to bigger xxwish-owned globalist corporations
The thing is....price. People will always buy cheaper and convenient.
They wont
Unless you live in Oregon. Then you're screwed.
It doesn't even matter who you vote for anymore the corporations are in charge
wow. As an agriculture business student. This video should be shown as a golden example to young farmers who want to help their community and keep their family farm!
Mike should work with someone to spec out the entire system he uses so it can be duplicated and setup in as many locations as possible and then become a large thorn in the side of the giant meat packers. This would also be a benefit for the cattle ranchers and hog producers.
Absolutely. Local producers retailing everywhere.
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Also offer grass-fed beef.
He said he would in the video
@@MrOldclunkeridiot
It’s not hard to duplicate this system.
Have a LOT of land.
Have water rights.
Have a custom butcher building.
Staff it with skilled craftsman (butchers).
Have a retail sales location.
Have good friendly cottage industry laws.
Have dedicated customers.
Easy peasy.
It’s really old school here in East Texas. Hundreds of Cattle standing on the edge of ponds surrounded by lush grassy fields or wandering freely in acres of ranch land. Then they are off to the auction probably to be sold off to corn finishers and processors. We can find this meat in our own grocery stores, but not in Walmart! What a difference in flavor. I hope this never changes. Our store even has the butchers in the back behind the glass window like years ago.
Depends on what part of Texas you are in. I do not know of any real butchers in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
@@ourfather7 Brookshire Brothers. We just got a butcher moved into a shop at a strip mall. I haven’t been there yet but planning to.
I'm in San Antonio I don't know any.
@@1165slugman there is a big farmers market there. People sell their products from their farms. I moved from S.A. to east texas and so glad I did. It’s there but expensive!
What city
This sounds like Co-ops 👍 ❤😊
We need this for all communities!
Best yet!!
Hopefully you get picked for the next Secretary of Agriculture and get the USDA turned in the right direction.
Great thought , when Trump is returned the whole system requires great people put back in important positions. GBUSA
Talk to RFK about that when he wins the election in November!😊😊🙏🙏🥳🥳❤❤
RFK jr is changing out the old guard. Put this guy in charge of USDA and Dept of Ag.
@@davef6036Trump is a sellout. Please.
Trump put WIlbur Ross at Commerce lsat time, whom was on the opposite side of these kind of stories. All Ross did his whole career was make Big Business bigger. Trump's Ag Sec was Perdue whose administration was filled with pure political operatives with no Ag experience. Perdue caused many people to resign over relocations so there were fewer people to monitor situations just like the ones in the video.
Trump is not the man for this mission.
WOW Trinity such good information. I have not eaten meat for years because the grocery store meat does not taste like "Meat" anymore. I had no idea all of this was happening. Meat Mafia ...UGH
I buy mine from a friend here in Montana...it's the best ever. I do know what you mean about grocery store meat...it smells funny.
That's a nice operation. The info in the video is top notch. I can't even begin to afford those prices. In the Ozarks I'm getting grass fed angus for $1.50 over retail per pound and even cheaper by quarter or half carcass. Because people here believe in helping the AVERAGE family eat healthier and we support out local farmers. Everyone comes out ahead. Not just the ranchers.
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Great interview! This guys got it figured out. All the sucess to him! Grow local, sell local, buy local. Eat healthy.
I remember the meat cutting schools and union jobs available in the 70s and 80s. It used to be a good career in local markets.
Belonged to Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. Great Job in Greeley CO in the 70's! Meat Diets in those days tasted so much better. Whatever they are putting in meat today ❓GROSS! [popular 60's word! 😄]
One of my cousins was a AMCU meat cutter Butcher who lost his good paying job and trade in Detroit, early 80's, directly as a result of this BS in the US REGIME~
So do I,but I also remember what the union did to their members in British Columbia when a large at the time non union chain came into the market.assesed the existing members to fund unionization campaign,then signed a deal gutting the existing contract of those members.next negotiations the employer threw that contract on the table,said there's our new contract,turning good mortgage capable jobs full time into wage ghetto jobs part time no benefits for all new employees.of course management cut everyone's hrs that were grandfathered theyre wages till no longer viable .union got thousand plus more dues paying members though. Ufcw scummiest thing I've ever seen from a union .
@@joesutherland225 I’ve never been a union fan, but where they have a monopoly through state legislation, it can make for good wages and benefits. I’m generally against regulation and unionization. At the same time, they have been corporatizing and demonizing meat for forty years or more.
@@paulchristian8271 I'm totally pro union it's really the only way to get decent wages and benefits otherwise capital weilds the stick with no concern for the people doing the work. Keep them only 2 weeks from disaster then they can't fight back unless they team up or more correctly unionize
Great listen. Examples of corporate greed and how government accommodates it. Very smart man
Two very smart men right here! Hopefully people wake the hell up and support community and real beef swine and poultry producers by buying direct from producers
I'm going to a local butcher this week. Their website says they get their beef from Iowa.
A local farm, here in Florida, tried starting up a grass fed brand. Their packaging was messed up and air in the package disturbed me. I think they gave it a couple of tries and now they are gone. It looked like sabotage to me. Who the heck would do that?
I listen to a podcast called barn talk on you tube. They have started a mail order producer to consumer deal called Farmer Grade. Actually I work for a grocery outfit that they talked about where there were in store butchers that processed the carcas at store. Wegmans Food Market. About 25 yrs ago they stopped having that done in stores. The butchers were offered the opportunity to get CDL and drive or work elsewhere in distribution. I live in Upstate NY. I have ordered grass fed online from a few places. After listening to this podcast I am going to start to buy from a local meat mrkt in Canaseraga,NY. It is about a 45 minute drive from me but we'll Worth it. Another great you tube podcast is five generations of cowboys. I know nothing about processing meat and have been driving for Wegmans for 25 yrs and drove other places before here.
Government created it and too big to fail. This is not capitalism but crony capitalism thanks to big government and corrupt politicians. Overwhelmingly democrats with help from neocon establishment republicans.
Very Good video, everyone needs to see this. Thanks for Sharing this. 😊
You are indeed blessed to be a blessing. I send encouragement your way; and may God prosper your path because it is HIS.
Awesome! We buy as much of our food local as we can, and encourage all friends and family to do the same. We buy all our beef and pork local. People are sick and tired of poor quality food.
This is absolutely true. I found this out to be exactly what he said when I lived in Idaho and we raised or I should say I raised a calf. Purposely use for food on our table.
It’s totally flipped and for rancher and Farmers literally impossible to even survive
It's not over till it's over
Trinity, I shared this on the various social platforms that I use. Thank you for this informative video.
Wow Mike's pigs actually know what sunshine is!
A grocery store chain in CT (Stop & Shop) doesn't even cut meat in their meat department anymore. It all comes cryovaced from the packing plant now. Awful.
Which means it's not hanging and aging for bacterial protection. That's why there's so many recalls.
Yep and I don't buy anything from stop & shop anymore.
This is such important information.
So very interesting - hope the trend continues.
Trinity thanks so much . I hope too go to Kansas and Colorado Springs to see how it all works, this summer . We have a custom exempt plant in Arkansas for 17 yrs and are working on opening a retail market . We raise our own beef.
This has been such a inspiration to me . Keep on keeping on . And God bless.
Where in Arkansas are you located? Nw Arkansas here.
@@ceaa6548 we are located in Mena .
Great video that has described modern Agriculture
Fantastic, this man is an inspiration. Thank You
Great video Trinity i always learn something new here thanks .
I buy my beef from a friend who is a rancher in Montana...All grass fed, no antibiotics unless really needed. I have a half a cow on the way. Best beef ever. I can't even stand the smell of say Walmart beef. GREAT vid Trinity...keep em comin.
You are so right about the smell of meat at Walmart. My husband commented the last time we went to Walmart that he could smell the meat as he was walking past the meat section, it was that bad. Looking for grass fed beef, no more big box stores.
Agree with most of what you say. However there is nothing better about grass fed beef. Grass fed beef grades lower, and is cheaper to produce. Works with the marketing hype of Angus Breeders Association. You're buying marketing hype! If you notice, the best tasting beef is marbled. Look at Wagyu beef. Buy only Prime, it is not going to be grass fed. That would cost way to much to try to produce!
I agree my daughter is in the cattle Bo. Grass fed dose not have much good flavor,and it’s a lot of hype. The reason to eat locally is the cows usually have a better quality of life , not a lots of stress , antibiotics if needed, quality food and care . All cows eat grass but they have a better taste when finished out with grain for flavor ❤
But 100% grass fed doesn't have the marbling that is preferred by most people.
@@NotchFox Agree with everything you said. Only thing I buy, beef-wise, that is 100% grass fed is ground beef
This video is absolutely a must watch for anybody with any size of cattle operation. Amazing content !
Another GREAT VIDEO!!!
Another amazing video Trinity. This one really hits home....kinda makes me want to move to CO so I can live in that town and eat all that yummy beef and pork! Thanks again, have a blessed day.
Excellent video! Thank you
Really appreciate the insight in to the market!
We (my family) own a small (1500~ acre) production unit (aka: The Farm! LOL!) that we channel through a (very) good cutter, that is not very happily close to us, and retail our own product locally, relying almost entirely on word of mouth to sell our production.
I am immensely glad that we support a small business that provides a VERY good service as a slaughter an cutting house, as we do not yet have the capability locally to support.
But I am also immensely happy that I do not have to make my business decisions, upon deciding just how slowly I starve myself to death, either.
No Farmers, No Food! Perhaps stopping sending any food in to the cities would make that point clearer, to those who decided to support anti-farming initiatives!
I wish it would matter, but food is sourced in foreign markets, and the city people don't know the difference anyway.
This guy and his business is the kind we all need to support and have in each community. Thank you for this very important and informative video
Trinity, another great video! I raise and sell beef locally. I never have complaints about the quality of my beef. It saves customers money and is financially better for me as well. Keep the videos coming. What was the story on the pen of Scottish Highlanders?
What breed of cattle do you raise!
@@petermartens1645 Scottish Highlanders, very docile, much easier to handle, and excellent taste.
The Highlanders belong to a customer we feed and process for. Excellent quality!
Thank you Trinity for this information!! A few months ago you had him or another man talk about this very same PROBLEM! Since then, I've wanted to buy beef from a rancher. Thing is...I'm single and don't need much beef😢
Thank you so much for letting people know ❤❤❤❤❤ HAPPY TRAILS ❤❤❤
Best video ever. We need to remove the government interference that is only helping making our food bad.
Great content ❤🇺🇸
I shopped at Ranch Foods Direct all the time!
Amazing store. Bought all my dogs raw food there also. Glad to see them getting interviewed.
I moved, but a great business.
Amen Trinity!! My Brother-in-law in eastern Montana has 600 head of cattle and can barely make a go of it due to poor/low beef prices. Keep up the good work!!
It reminds me of a TA truck stop in Springfield Missouri the owner raises cattle and sells it in his truck stop best ribeye and brisket at the best price I’ve ever had at any truck stop really appreciate it as a truck driver.
Trinity, thank you for this piece. We are currently two years into the same venture in Tennessee.
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Absolutely overwhelmed by the knowledge attained from this one video about the beef business and the quality derived.! Please keep it going..!
God Bless..!
WSG,Sr.
aka Sandy
PS: Now no missing link - From cow to market.!
We buy from our local college store - better meat and good prices. I actually worked on an independent local feedlot after high school in Southern California, in 1970. Very few kids ever get that chance anymore, especially in California.
Trinity - You knocked it out of the park? Watched lots of your videos but this lit a fire. Been thinking this for years. Together we can take back our world from the cabal. Keep up the great work.
Very interesting piece of doco here bloke. As an observer of the Australian market I see this exact sort of corporate grip on the stock owner as it is in the states. And this in itself is a terrible mistake, especially given the size of the market in Australia. I know many livestock farmers who are under terrible constraint via contract issue, and I wonder when the legislation designed to prevent this will ever be enforced. At least old mate has taken the mob on and seen some semblance of positive result. I also agree with the disdain for supermarket boxed meat distribution, the loss of skilled butchers over here is a real thing, and as sad as it is, the corporate plan to remove small business and grant the consumer the illusion of choice is a true reality for our future generations.
Very interesting & informative video. Keep up the good work. If enough people push back against the “meat mafia”, hopefully things will improve. We can only hope.
As soon as I saw your TH-cam short I knew that was Mike callicrate.. lived in the Springs for 9 years and his products are great 👍🏼
@@BearsFanGoomba Yes. He does a great job!
Thank you for another great video! I loved Mike's energy and passion for what he does. It is also wonderful that the carnivore and ketogenic way's of eating are mentioned in your videos. Slowly but surely the word is getting out there. BTW. Berkshire pasture raised pork is fantastic! :)
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Another good interview, just wish you could find some grass-fed, grass-finished producers. Thanks for your hard work and travels!
And non vaccination beef too!
Hi Trinity, thank you for sharing the facts plus exposing the corruption the food industry has. Growing your own foods is becoming the safest way to feed your family. God bless you
Neighbors helping neighbors. This is how to build a strong community. God bless you! Keep up the good fight. This is what makes America the best country in the world!
GREAT episode, thanks to all involved!
Wow this is so great to hear this farmer putting out the truth about saturated fat and oils!!! We live in SC there is no place to buy this meat? Where can we buy beef and pork like this?
Thank you, Trinity, for this video.. Now let's get it going here in Montana!!! Enough with these these fools to telling us where and how we are going to get our food!!! Awesome video!!!
Excellent video, very informative! Thanks to you and your guest.
Great video. We watched it twice. And forward it to many friends.
This man has it right.
There should be a big box movie made from this story.
To help build more awareness of the meat industry for Americans and what good families have sadly had to endure over the years.
Thank you for doing such an amazing job of documenting all of this always love watching your channel.
These guys had better be sitting in the state capitals, making sure laws and regulations aren't passed to screw them over once again. You can be sure the "free marketers" are working on it right now.
Maybe you should be paying closer attention to what you are voting for and who!
@@Rick-np9vz see my other comment.
It is Crony Capitalism, not Free Market Capitalism, that causes this.
Lol. Nah, all of Congress is on foreign AIPAC bribes now. Try get kickbacks to, for example, send almost 100bn to them overseas.
@@Rick-np9vzthey all take bribes from AIPAC and the unnameables who are behind everything
I’ve watched many of your videos over the past couple years and enjoyed them. Today this popped up on my feed presumably because i’ve been a carnivore for the past year or so. I was surprised to see I hadn’t already subscribed to your channel. So i fixed that.
I think all small businesses should bypass big corporations and deal directly with each other’s. That would save our country economy and cattle industry from destruction.
Very informative.. Important facts to know. We need to increase awareness and buy local!!!
This video is excellent, thank you so much for doing this story. This has been eye-opening!
Excellent video. I still get my beef from the ranch I grew up on in Mt. (In the WSS area) I only mention that because I heard you talk about Martinsdale, MT on a video i watched, in the same county. WE grow most of the vegetables we eat and really don't buy any food items from the big box grocery stores. What we do buy we get from or local producers or our small local store in our community. I really think that supporting local farms and families in your area is what makes it a strong country. Thanks for the educational video.
Props to you, Man! Keep up the great job! You inspire me!
When I was growing up in north alabama we raised our own hogs and chickens. We slaughtered and processed the meat ourselves. That meat and poultry had a much better taste than anything I've ever had since .even now we buy our beef from our neighbor who raised it and had it processed locally. That way you know what you are getting and it's good for the local economy and the community.
Thanks Man another great video! What an eye opener, wish I was closer I would patronize that guy. Just ate some of those inedible pork chops, had to laugh because that’s exactly what I thought…..THIS IS TERRIBLE……ate it anyway, worked all day I was hungry 😂
😄. I’ve done that a lot.
I went to Colorado Springs in 2021 and spent the night and went to the Rodeo Hall of Fame. Then up to Cheyenne for the Frontier Days Rodeo. Great trip and beautiful area
More youngsters need to take on practical jobs like butchers. People need to buy directly
Retired Master butcher and retired USDA Inspector. This is so true!! I started when I was 17 years old!
Thanks Trinity! I really appreciate you using your channel to shine light on this.
And while I don’t feel like feedlots are particularly ideal, they’re necessary for large amounts of beef and it sucks when folks can’t make do because of these ridiculously tyrannical megacorporations.
In my case, I like to think of the feedlot as the sacrifice pasture, without the damage of overgrazing. Over the last 10 or so years we have been in a drought. The feedlot gives us a place to go with our cow herd instead of selling them off. It also allows us to increase the herd size for better impact in rotational grazing and is always there if the grass runs out.
Trinity! This video hits home! I love what you’re doing and the content you bring about these topics!
Keep it up man!! We need more people like you who talk about this and bring out the truth of what really going on! And bring back local markets with healthy sustainable food sources!
Thank you, very informative, I enjoyed watching this video, subscribed
My God how do farmers stay in the industry? You as a Farmer are the true backbone of this country. God Bless and great video to get this word out
Brilliant descriptive example of how it should be done. This is a prime example of responsible husbandry at work and the flow on in terms of real benefit to people and their communities is enormous.
If only this were the norm, would we then need the big multi national companies dictating the terms?
What an excellent insightful video with much to teach us all thank you for sharing what CAN BE DONE instead of the limitations that big business wants to impose on us… very smart man many thanks for all of the food for thought and getting the wheels turning … there is hope out there… stay blessed one and all …
We started with chickens, then breeding Gloucester Old Spot pigs, as well as green beans, and gourmet garlic. The difference is truly astonishing
Very informative video. So much information provided here. I would love to see these feedlots, both pig and cow, with overhead shade provided in certain areas of the pens.
This first guy knows exactly what he’s talkin about. I’ve been a butcher/meat cutter my whole life. People who are meat cutters are box beef cutters. They cut meat. Butchers know how to to kill and process an animal from hoof to freezer. I was lucky to do both because in retail grocery stores, you need to make the product look nice to sell and I transferred that over to being a custom butcher. Very few people are left that know how to break an animal and know where all the cuts come from.
You doing good work trinity, please keep sharing.
In the 80's there were a bunch of small packers in the towns where I grew up in south central PA
Thank you for sharing such high quality content and asking all of the right questions.
This is one important educational video. People have to wake up. Corporations are all about greed!
Best damn video I’ve watched in a while! We need waaaay more of this! End the industrial complex or we lose our ways of life. I love what this guy did! Excellent video!
Mike Callicrate is really making the best of a bad situation.
Excellent rundown on the industry and the most important part of it. The ranchers that facilitate the entire cycle.
I very much admire what he has built there! Wonderful! I can't praise him enough. Sadly though, he is still vulnerable to government fiat nonsense deciding his water isn't good or he's not allowed to use it, or he has to RFID all the animals and lab test them every 6 months for whatever, and so on. . I pray that never happens. Thank you so much for this interview and having him explain how our food supply is being 'corralled' for international corporate profits.
This is really cool, so organized and clean . Thanks for sharing the video.
Mike Callicrate's story is absolutely inspiring. What truly honest and great man. Does he ship his products I wonder to regular folks I wonder?
@cahoonm I saw on another comment that it is called Ranchers Direct
@@anneiconex1473 Thank you brother
Another master piece sir. Thank you for bringing awareness to the beef industry and what is really going on.
Great video Trinity, wake up the masses. God bless
Callicrate for President. I salute his humanity toward his animals, his workers and his community. And I subscribed just because you ended this with "God bless".