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Amsterdam just banned meat advertising. They call it a climate move. We call it what it is: a war on food. The Netherlands has been battling its own farmers for years—nitrogen regulations, forced buyouts, protests. Now they're moving from production to culture. If you won't voluntarily abandon meat, they'll make it invisible. They'll push insects as 'future protein' and lab-grown 'meat' as the solution. But here's the truth: real beef, raised on grass, by ranchers who know the land—that's what sustains people. When governments ban meat ads, we keep selling real beef directly. AcmeAcres.us — direct from rancher to customer, no middleman markup. Your rancher, Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478

7 confirmed cases of screwworm. Yesterday it was 5. The day before, 3. Two states. All originating from cartel-controlled ranches south of the border. BeefMaps.com has been tracking cartel cattle corridors for over a year. Now screwworm is in Texas. The parasite moved through the same routes the cattle did. InSight Crime confirmed it: outbreak hotspots mirror the smuggling routes. 800,000 head a year smuggled through Mexico with falsified paperwork, no quarantine, no traceability. CJNG doesn't just extort ranchers — they charge 5 pesos per kilo on export animals. They access live herd data through RFID tags. They run regional managers embedded in Mexico's legal export system. Cattle bought for $650 in Central America, resold for $1,500 in Texas. A $1.2 billion shadow market. The parasite isn't the only thing hiding in plain sight. The "Product of USA" rule changed in January. Packers can now only use that label if the animal was born, raised, harvested, AND processed in the US. The old loophole where imported beef got stamped "Product of USA" just for being processed here? Gone. But it's still voluntary. Packers don't have to tell you anything. They can just leave the label off. Imported beef from cartel corridors can sit in your grocery store with zero origin disclosure. MCOOL — mandatory country of origin labeling — would fix that. Every cut, labeled. Born where. Raised where. Slaughtered where. No exceptions. H.R. 5818 is sitting in Congress right now. The screwworm made this urgent. The cartel corridors made it obvious.

A lunge line trails from the halter. Dust kicks behind the hindquarters. A young horse circles the pen, learning to move, learning to trust. King Ranch, 1944. Toni Frissell caught ground work. Not bucking. Not a rodeo. The first step. A vaquero stands at the center of the circle, controls the movement from the end of a line, and lets the horse figure it out before a rider ever climbs on. The vaquero system takes two to three years before a horse sees a full bridle. Hackamore first. Then bosal. Then two-rein. Then spade bit. Every step earns the next one. The horse in this photo is at the beginning of that road. This image never made Frissell's 1975 book. The other King Ranch photos did — the remuda, Ed Durham, Tom Tate. This one sat in the LoC archive until the Houston Museum of Fine Arts pulled it for the 2006 exhibit Two Women Look West. Most people have never seen it. Same 1944 shoot as the bloodhound photo. Same negative batch. LC-F9-02-4404. A Vogue photographer embedded with working cowboys, shooting what the magazines didn't always want: the slow part. The patience. The years it takes before a horse is ready.

Every brand bright enough to see from a distance is casting shadows you can't see from where you stand. The pattern isn't hidden. It's just large enough to look like landscape. 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com

"Each piece feeding the next. Locked into a system so complete it stopped looking like a system at all. It just looked like Texas." That's King Ranch. 825,000 acres that feel inevitable. Like the land was always meant to be one operation. But Richard King didn't find empty land in 1853. He found Spanish and Mexican land grants held by Tejano families who'd ranched that country for generations. After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, those families had to prove their titles in English-language courts, pay new taxes they'd never owed, and fight lawyers who took land as payment. Many lost everything. King bought their grants during a drought that made refusal impossible. The labor came from Cruillas, Tamaulipas — whole families recruited in 1854 to work a ranch so vast some never left its boundaries. Seven generations of Kineños. The water came from aquifers that recharge on geologic time. The oil came from 650 wells leased to Humble Oil in 1933 — a deal that's still paying royalties today. Every piece feeding the next. Someone made choices. Someone benefited. Someone paid costs that don't show up on the balance sheet. 170 years is long enough to trace the consequences.

The generational change staring us in the face isn't just about who runs the farm—it's about who gets to decide what the farm becomes. Dads and grandpas not wanting to turn over control for some reason. You see it once in a while. The operations that have been willing to embrace the next generation? They're the ones that'll still be here in twenty years. That's why we built AcmeAcres.us—direct from rancher to customer, no middleman markup. So the money stays on the ranch and the next generation can actually afford to take over. Your rancher, Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478 @barntalkshow

Dale Brisby is culling his remuda. That means bucking each horse with a bareback rider to decide who stays and who goes. A rancher can't keep more horses than he uses. Feed costs. Winter costs. Every extra mouth is overhead. His rule: no horses under 15 years old. "I want a campaigner. I like it that way." A campaigner is a horse that's seen it all. Dale's got four horses over 20. One is 23. He doesn't buck colts. Doesn't trade. He doesn't want the young pretty ones — he wants the ones that have been through everything and still show up. That's how working ranchers evaluate horses. Not by looks. By years. @dalebrisby

Arizona rancher Casey Murph on screwworm: "My grandfather and great grandfather spent their entire career with it." "They dealt with it. It was just like another pest." "We have got a lot better stuff now. Ivermectin will kill it immediately." "It will not get into your beef." @caseymurph1 @JensTwoCentsAZ

Horses flood the plain at dawn. One rider leads. 1943, King Ranch, Texas. Toni Frissell shot the remuda for Collier's magazine. Published December 18, 1943, page 20. Wartime America flipping through a national magazine seeing this: the largest ranch in the country still running on horsepower. Literal horsepower. A remuda is the string of saddle horses assigned to each cowboy. On King Ranch, every vaquero drew 5 to 8 horses, rotated by task. Cutting horse. Roping horse. Night herd horse. Long ride horse. Each one trained for years through the vaquero progression: hackamore to bosal to two-rein to full bridle. No shortcuts. No rushing. In 2019, the AQHA gave King Ranch the Best Remuda Award. 166 years of continuous horse breeding. The system in Frissell's 1943 photo is the same one running today. The Kineño vaquero Albert Lolo Trevino said it plain: A cowboy without a rope is like a man without arms. Also published in Frissell's 1975 King Ranch book, plate 70. The LoC catalog number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-09273. The original negative is still in the vault.

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Every extra horse costs feed through winter. So you buck them. You watch. You decide. The old ones stay. The young ones go. 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com

Oregon just put 126,000 signatures behind a ballot measure that would make farming a criminal offense. We built AcmeAcres.us for exactly this — direct from rancher to customer, no middleman who folds the minute the legislature comes for his license. IP28 — they call it the "Peace Act" — strips the exemptions that let ranchers, farmers, hunters, and vets do their jobs. Castration, dehorning, artificial insemination? Reclassified as sexual assault. Slaughter for meat? Criminal. Hunting and fishing? Criminal. The only exemption is self-defense. This isn't compassion. Well-managed herds stay healthy because a rancher's livelihood depends on it. Remove that stewardship and you get overpopulation, starvation, disease — actual suffering. And the money behind this? Russian crypto wallets. A Craigslist charitable fund. A substitute teacher from Olympia who dumped $28,000 of his own cash to get those 126,000 signatures. They're openly calling IP28 a test case. What passes in Oregon gets copy-pasted to your state next. Your rancher, Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478 @YanasaTV

Your beef is safe. Ranchers have been dealing with this for 150 years. They still are. 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com

A rancher on the screwworm: "We have got a lot better stuff now. Ivermectin will kill it immediately."

We have been intensely critical of both the beef imports from Argentina and the USDA’s handling of the New World Screwworm (NWS) crisis — our stance has remained the same for over a year But this is an example of misinformation There is no correlation between the beef imports from Argentina and the NWS crisis The NWS CANNOT infest raw and/or cooked meat and presents no risk to beef The NWS can only infest LIVE warm blooded mammals, presenting a risk to livestock, wildlife, pets and unfortunately in some cases, humans

@pastorms Good tip!

@BeefMaps Also Cydectin ... and you won't kill your dung beetles or earthworms.

@BeefMaps @Grain_Cycles Not all land is Glacial Soils, and never will be.