Red Miller

There’s over 25 million acres of CRP that could be used to increase our nations herd numbers.

They want you to be ashamed of the American Dream Your grandpa showed up with a suitcase and $40. Didn't speak the language. Didn't know anyone. Washed dishes until he could afford something better. Saved enough to buy a truck. Started a business. Then bought the building. Your grandma watched it happen. And she raised four kids to believe they could do it too. That's the American Dream. It never mattered if you were born here or came on a boat. What mattered was what you were willing to build. A kid grows up on a cattle farm in the middle of nowhere Nebraska. His dad never finished high school. His mom works the register at the only store in town. Nobody in his family has ever left the state. He tinkers with engines after school. Builds things out of scrap. Shows up to college with everything he owns in the back of a pickup truck. Ten years later he's running a manufacturing company. Not because his parents had connections. Not because someone handed him a trust fund or a last name that opened doors. Because this is America. And in America, you're allowed to try. You're allowed to dream. And the numbers prove it. ~23 million millionaires in this country. 79% of them are self-made. 902 billionaires. More than anywhere else on the planet. 13 out of the 15 richest people in the world are American. 73% self-made. They didn't inherit empires. They built them. In garages. In dorm rooms. In strip malls. On kitchen tables. Jeff Bezos never knew his biological father. He started Amazon out of a garage and couldn't afford a desk so he bought a door from Home Depot and screwed four legs onto it. Larry Ellison was abandoned by his mother at nine months old. His adoptive father told him he'd never amount to anything. He dropped out of college twice and built Oracle into a $200 billion empire. Oprah was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother. She became the most influential media figure on the planet. Three people who had every reason to fail. Look what they built instead. Tell me where else a broke kid with no connections can build a billion-dollar company and nobody asks who his father was. You won't find it. Because every other system on this planet was built to keep people where they were born. Castes. Classes. Last names. Bloodlines. Old money. Old power. America was built to break all of it. An entire generation has been brainwashed into being ashamed of it. They taught your kids that this country was built on nothing but slavery and genocide. They put it in the textbooks. The movies. Every feed. Until your 19-year-old can't say "I love my country" without feeling like he has to apologize. They told you the American Dream was a lie sold to keep people down. 53 million people born in other countries chose to live here. 71% of them say they'd do it all over again. They didn't pick France. They didn't pick Germany. They didn't pick China. They picked here. Because they already know what you've been gaslit into forgetting. Don't let them do this to you. Don't let some professor who's never built anything tell your kids that the country their great-grandparents bled for is irredeemable. Don't let some activist with a blue check convince you that a nation of 22.7 million self-made millionaires is a monument to oppression. Don't let a politician shame you into believing that the people who build are the villains. Every time this country creates greatness, they tell us to apologize for it. And don't you dare let a foreigner who's never set foot here tell you what your country is. They've never watched a janitor's daughter become a surgeon. They've never seen a single mom put herself through night school and end up running the department. They've never sat at a Thanksgiving table where five different accents argue about football and nobody thinks twice. That's not some ad, it's a Thursday. Somewhere right now a kid is lying on the floor of a studio apartment doing homework while his mom works a double. He doesn't have a trust fund. He doesn't have a single connection that matters. But he's got a shot. A real one. Because he lives here. And if you let them take that from him, what are you even defending? This is the country that looked at the moon and said "we choose to go, not because it is easy, but because it is hard." So build. I hope you understand what's at stake.

A big thing that would actually help would be opening crp to grazing though fall and winter. Instead of ridiculous practices like light discing which only harms the land! Graze cattle and regenerate the land!!

This exactly.

2020

@riley_sides The only thing I’ll feed my horses now. 15 years and no colic or tying up.

Oats: The crop you don’t fully appreciate until a few years down the road I noticed the medicinal effects they had on soil before I ever read/heard why.. The bonus is they make a great #cowturd #eatbeef

1930s: American Dust Bowl. Industrial farming ploughed up grasslands that had sustained buffalo herds for thousands of years. The grass held soil together. Remove grass, soil becomes dust. The worst environmental disaster in American history was caused by replacing grassland with crops. The Great Plains evolved as grassland. Deep-rooted prairie grasses prevented erosion, captured rainfall, maintained soil structure. Buffalo grazed without destroying it. The system was stable for millennia. Then tractors arrived and farmers decided wheat was better than grass. The result: massive soil loss, economic collapse, agricultural devastation, and human displacement. The land that successfully supported grazing animals for thousands of years couldn't handle five years of intensive crop agriculture. Breaking the grassland broke the ecosystem. Eventually, some areas were returned to grassland and cattle grazing. The land recovered. The soil rebuilt. The system stabilized. The environmental disaster was caused by replacing grass with crops. The solution was returning grass and reintroducing grazing animals. Modern environmental activists suggest converting grassland to crops. The Dust Bowl suggests this is catastrophically stupid. The land is grassland for ecological reasons. Fighting this reality causes environmental disaster. The cattle grazing that land aren't the problem. They're working with the land's nature instead of against it. Grassland is grassland because that's what works there. The crops are the inappropriate use. The cattle are appropriate. The Dust Bowl proved this in the most devastating way possible. We're ignoring that lesson because admitting it contradicts current agricultural narratives.

One of the biggest SCAMS in the cattle industry is buying single open cows and putting a bunch of them together, Throw a bull on them, And sell them as a "Complete Ranch Dispersal" They are actually a bunch of misfits that wouldn't rebreed, Aborted, no milk, no Mothering.

You can only think cattle cause global warming when you have no concept of how the biogenic carbon cycle works. Ruminants and grasses have been evolving together for several million years, and the earth’s systems evolved to handle the methane. Methane is short lived before being broken down into CO2, and all the methane emitted by cows was CO2 about 6 months before the cows ate it. Hence in the blink of an eye (12 years), we have a cycle that does not add to atmospheric CO2 levels. Not a single atom of Carbon can be additionally added to the atmosphere by cows.

A cow takes grass (inedible to humans) and produces: - Meat (complete protein + fats) - Milk (complete nutrition) - Leather (clothing, tools) - Tallow (cooking fat, soap, candles) - Bones (tools, broth, fertilizer) - Organs (nutrient-dense food) - Manure (fertilizer) This is complete resource utilization from a plant humans cannot eat. You cannot replicate this with any technology. The cow is performing chemical transformations we cannot industrialize. Grass → complete human nutrition is alchemy. The cow is worth more than any machine humans have invented. It runs on rain and grass. Produces multiple products. Builds soil while operating. Sequesters carbon. Reproduces itself. And we're told to eliminate them for environmental reasons. While flying in almonds from California and soy from Brazil. The stupidity is breathtaking.

Someday we'll all learn oil isn't made from dinosaur fossils. It is naturally produced from within the earth, like the blood within our bodies. It is a renewable resource which can never run out. The scarcity tactics is used by the elite to promote them as "fossil" fuel, because allegedly being fossil fuels, it means that it has to run out, therefore keeping the prices high. Infact there is almost as much underground oil, as there is water here on Earth.

Selective outrage alert. Obama launched weeks of airstrikes in Libya without Congress. Biden ordered repeated strikes in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Somalia the same way. You do not get to call it illegal only when you dislike the president. Be consistent or be quiet.

What people think cows do: - Steal water - Fart methane constantly - Cause climate change - Take food from hungry children - Destroy rainforests - Exist only in US-style feedlots - Store dangerous fats - An indulgence What cows actually do: - Drink rain and piss it back - Participate in an ancient carbon cycle - Sequester carbon in grassland - Convert inedible grass and crop byproducts into protein - Support entire ecosystems - Spend 85% of their life on pasture - Store stable fats - Provide our keystone food

@gpatterson828 John Wayne’s the cowboys

Imagine the disappointment if a wolf knew his descendants would be a poodle. That's how your grandfather feels when he sees your man bun!

Humans can't digest cellulose. It passes straight through us. Grass is 30-40% cellulose. 70% of Earth's agricultural land grows grass and not much else. Without ruminants, 70% of agricultural land produces zero human food. Cattle are the only way to convert that grass into nutrition we can actually use. They're not competing with human food. They're creating food from resources we physically cannot digest. This is the point everyone misses: Cattle aren't inefficient. Cattle are the ONLY way to make marginal land productive. You can't grow quinoa on Scottish highlands. The terrain is too steep, the soil too poor, the climate too harsh. But grass grows there. And cattle eat grass. Remove the cattle and you haven't freed up land for crops. You've just made 70% of agricultural land completely useless.