Katy McBride

Our enemies are not our neighbors who vote in a different primary. They’ve made us feel that it’s left vs right— but it’s not — It’s rich vs everyone else. The billionaires & powerful politicians do not care about us. They will let us all perish. Wake up!

Fuck it. Retain all your heifers. Put your steers on feed for 4 more months. Don't take any to the barns. Supply and demand. Cattle prices will jump because there's no supply and packers need to meet demand. Fuck em. Fuck em all.

@RepBrandonGill Hey Brandon, why did you run in Texas to only ignore your farmers and ranchers? You’re a politician thru and thru. How much money did you get from the Big 4?

Why would Democrats support open border policies? To cynically, systematically rig our elections in their favor.

hearing from a guy that made $4 billion in Crypto the last 2 years say Ranchers are doing too well (because they were able to buy a new pickup for the first time in 10 years) is still wearing on me.

@blonglet This needs to be organized by the local sale barns or cattle/ranchers associations. It’s possible to get enough hold outs. If the sale barns would just cancel the sale for a week even it would make a loud statement.

What happens if every rancher decides not to sell anything for a week or two????

@RanaePape @dvanklomp @blonglet Maybe sell them outside of the sale Barn? Also sale barns will hold them, maybe there’s a way for y’all to organize a way to have the barn hold them for a few weeks for a lot of you without a high daily charge if you supply the feed. Just a thought.

We have to get rid of cull supply and where we live roads are bad to get to the sale barn 2.5 hours away. We can’t hold on to extra past certain times of the year. So holding off doesn’t work. People think it’s easy to just say ‘hey don’t sell or buy’ but there is a lot that goes into the business of ranching.

@blonglet I mean if we could get people on board that would be great. Even if the sale barns would post that they’d like to participate in a strike but will hold the cattle for those who have to move them in that time.

@TheWardsFarm @agtradertalk As long as it’s Mason brand and not an off brand

@agtradertalk Maybe fancy it up and make it a Mason Jar of used bolts… fine crystal makes everything classier

The American Cattle Ranchers would like present to you a coffee can of used bolts, a slightly used calf puller and the keys of a 15 year old Polaris Ranger with 250,000 miles. What will that get us?

@agtradertalk I’d like to chip in some 40 year old bent t posts and a 6’ pile of rolled up rusted Barb wire.

@BowTiedCowpoke That’s what we’re doing

@cattleguy92 Wish I would have sold a few in early October. Didn’t really take advantage of that market bc my herd isn’t ready. It’s BS bc like you said, this won’t affect the consumer price. Everyone possible needs to switch to ranch direct purchases.

We all absolutely knew it would go down. The issue is that it was prematurely manipulated down so cow guys lose and consumers lose. Store meat stays high whilst we drop on the farm. Lose lose . Especially when heifers will now hit the market not the herd

@CBKimbrell I can’t even. I was gonna go this weekend to drop a few but I’m gonna wait a few weeks and see if it simmers. I don’t even wanna see the numbers after this weekends auctions.

At the cattle sale and the mood here is miserable.

Hospitalized patients, especially elderly & other folks who can't advocate for themselves, need close supervision by loved ones. My patients & my family have experienced horrors at the hands of hospital staff. With zero exaggeration, it's often a matter of life & death.

All this talk of a ballroom to service the super wealthy while the rest of us continue to pay more for healthcare and basic essentials makes me think of this powerful political cartoon from 1906, the artist is William Balfour Ker.

Following the President's orders, to get my cattle prices down, I listed 100 hd of 950 lb steers on Facebook market place for $250,000 to bypass the high sale barn prices. Its not going well. So far my responses are: 1. "I need 10 lbs of hamburger" 2. "Can I buy 4 Ribeyes?" 3. "What types of roasts do you have available?" 4. "I need hamburger, but can I pay you next month after payday?" 5. "I need 5 lbs of 80/20 and 10 lbs of 90/10" 6. "Can I sample your product before I buy?" 7. "What kind of deal can I get if I buy a large quantity of steaks. I need 6 T-bones?" 8. "Can I buy a highland cow from you?" 9. "I need 10 pork chops, can you deliver?" 10. "Do you have any bacon?"

@the_meat_lady It’s unfortunate that we are here. We have the space, the ranchers, the talent, and the cattle to do it without international beef. Another thing I’d add to this: the price of acreage. We free range, but are obvi limited. Removing international competition from the equation

My annual two cents: 1. Cattlemen raise calves. Those calves are bought by feedlots or held by the cattlemen themselves through feeding. The gross majority of these calves are then sold to a "Big 4" packer. Meat packers are the only end user of beef cattle able to covert a live animal into beef. They are a critical piece of the American livestock infrastructure. Cattlemen don't sell beef, they sell cattle. I see a lot of cowboys talking about "the beef business." You aren't in the beef business, you are in the cow business. Net margins in slaughter average 1-3% throughout the course of the cycle. It is incredibly regulated and cash intensive. New investment into the beef packing space is difficult because it is a hard investment. You have to be able to make and lose money in massive swings. Tyson Beef Slaughter Operations: 2024: Operating Loss - $381M 2023: Operating Loss - $91M 2022: Operating Income: $2,502M 2021: Operating Income: $3,240M It makes money, it loses money. But they are a critical piece of the supply chain, without them we have no where to go with cattle. I really wish we kept that in mind. 2. Beef processors take beef made from packers, some are owned by packers but there are many independent companies who do this, and they make steaks, fajitas, ground beef. Processors are the main importers of lean trim. Country of Origin labelling can create transparency in this process, but it also adds cost and does determine buying habits or patterns. A consumer that is already struggling is going to continue their buying trends. COOL does not even the playing field, it just discloses all the facts. Bottom line: Packers are not the only ones importing. You'd be surprised by who all is on the import bandwagon. 3. FAT CATTLE DO NOT MAKE LEAN TRIM. Each fat animal produces about 100 lbs of 85's and about 200 lbs of 50/50. Imports fill this gap BECAUSE the primary driver of beef consumption in the US is ground beef. 4. The US could make more lean trim by slaughtering more cull cows and bulls OR by adopting production practices similar to South America where cattle are grass fed and slaughtered younger. But that would take upending our current production habits and an entire value system that is based around corn conversion into high quality beef. The only way to supplant imports is to create the right live animal in the US. Expanding the cow herd will diminish the value of fat cattle and cull cows in tandem. Imports will continue for lean trim because it is cheaper than what we can produce domestically and PRICE ALWAYS WINS. Unless, we figure out how to compete on price with our South American neighbors, we will continue to atrophy. See soybeans for another market example. 5. The United States government will always be more concerned about cheap and available food than the stability of its growers. Please see French Revolution for details.

@MeriwetherFarms He will not. Get real and pay attention. You got played.

The USDA just released their plan to enforce “voluntary” country of origin labeling, which was a weak regulation started in the Biden Administration This is not good enough, it’s called “Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling” for a reason The White House needs an Executive Order on MCOOL now!

@hbottemiller As a small cattle rancher from north Texas I can tell you that my peers don’t care. They’ll continue to support him. There’s trump signs all over our local auction houses. There are no limits. He could literally shut them down & they’d say it’s part of the plan.

I used to think there was nothing President Trump could do to rock his very solid support within ag, but gaslighting cattle ranchers is sure one way to test the limits! 👀

President Trump your tweet stated that the reason that cattle prices are high is because of you. President Trump I did not realize that you had the power to cause three years of drought and I didn’t realize that you came up with the New World screwworm and infected the cattle in Mexico to close the border, We are not a communist country. It’s about supply and demand give the ranchers a chance to build their herds back. Don’t try to break their backs.

@TheLaurenChen Block international buyers & investment firms from purchasing large tracts of American farmland. Demand transparency in the LLC’s that purchase farmland. Force the sale of foreign owned land & let regular folks have an opportunity to ranch.

Everyone wants to support American farmers, but beef is getting more and more expensive. People's budgets are stretched to the maxed... But I don't think imports are the answer. So serious question, what can be done to lower the cost of American beef for consumers and farmers?

Another L from the Trump admin to the American People. Are we great again?