Callicrate Beef

10/15/2024

McDonald's is fully complicit in the broken and unhealthy food system we have today, enabling the concentration and consolidation that has destroyed our ability to feed ourselves: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2024/09/23/they-really-are-gangsters-thugs-and-thieves/

08/21/2024

If you're interested in good food and clean water ...

The Animal Agriculture and Water Quality (AAWQ) subcommittee is seeking comments on its recent public meetings and to inform its overall directive, which is to “provide recommendations that will inform EPA’s decisions regarding how to improve the implementation of the Clean Water Act National ...

05/17/2024

Stacy Mitchell - Democracy vs. Big Tech: How Can We Winn the Fight Against Monopoly Power

https://news.mikecallicrate.com/stacy-mitchell-democracy-vs-big-tech-how-we-can-win-the-fight-against-monopoly-power/

05/09/2024

Bigger is not better.

May 9, 2024 A study conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists (USC) states Tyson Foods released 371 million pounds of pollutants into waterways. Photo 186167919 © Andreistanescu | Dreamstime.com Read the full USC report on Tyson’s pollution Waste Deep: How Tyson Foods Pollutes US Waterways a...

05/02/2024

Feeding Biochar to livestock can improve digestion, performance, and soil health when the manure is applied to the land.

As the country tries to meet its climate goals, tackling emissions from farming will be key. One climate-smart agriculture strategy sequesters carbon while recycling agricultural waste and improving soil.

02/06/2024

It's in everyone's interest to save the cowman and the rural areas they steward.

The beef at big box grocery stores, and restaurants supplied by big food service companies, has little resemblance to the high quality beef of fifty years ago.

02/02/2024

There is a better way - lower cost, more efficient, more humane, and better quality meat, while building rural communities and preserving precious natural resources ...

01/25/2024

If producers expect to live off the land, they must find a place to sell their products, said Teegan Callicrate, Mike’s son who oversees the Callicrate Cattle Co. ranch, feedlot and slaughter operation in Saint Francis, Kansas.

“Ideally, they should be sold locally and go back to people in the communities that they come from,” Teegan Callicrate said. “That’s what I think this design can do for many communities across the world.”

Cattle rancher Mike Callicrate is rethinking the food chain. He embraces a sustainable approach to raising, processing and selling meat directly to consumers.

01/15/2024

Cattlemen and women represent the literal heart and soul of our country, often unaware of their cows value beyond feeding us. They go to work everyday, rain, shine, or blizzard, as the stewards of our grasslands and rural communities, creating the wealth for the very base of our economy.

Saturday, I spent the day with a group of Montana ranchers at the Beartooth Stock Association annual meeting. They ventured out in minus 20 degree weather, many just finishing cow chores. Cattlemen and women represent the literal heart and soul … Continue reading →

12/21/2023