THE $1.5 TRILLION FARM BILL | 2024 Update on the 2023 Farm Bill and USDA Impact on Rural Agriculture
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- UNCUT INTERVIEW WITH Thomas Massie: bit.ly/TMassie2024
I have been asked for an update on this issue. This video provides details on where the PRIME ACT stands and how it was integrated into the 2023 Farm Bill.
Timestamps:
Recap of the PRIME ACT 0:00
History of the Farm Bill in USA 1:55
Posing the $1.5 Trillion Question 5:24
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In this video:
Farm Bill Update
2023 Farm Bill
USDA and Rural Agriculture
PRIME ACT
Food Freedom
Rural Agriculture
Local Food
Rural Agriculture
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I worked at the Florida Department of Health with the CDC on the PulseNet program. Unfortunately, I cannot support you and must actually work against you until you begin to understand why your profit motives to avoid health inspections will cause unnecessary and preventable illness and death. Your quote about small farmers not bring responsible for food borne illness since 2012 does not support your argument because it in fact shows that meat inspections are working. Additionally, I do not believe you have access to PulseNet's data on minor food borne illnesses that affect fewer than 3 people which means the impact small farmers have on public health is still hard to quantify. Only a fool would ask to stop a safety measure when we know it works by the historical reductions in food borne illness just because you're too naive to understand the benifits from food inspection on our economy by preventing illness.
Start advocating for the USDA to reduce inspection costs. Anything less is lazy and hurtful to your customer.
I worked at the Florida Department of Health with the CDC on the PulseNet program. Unfortunately, I cannot support you and must actually work against you until you begin to understand why your profit motives to avoid health inspections will cause unnecessary and preventable illness and death. Your quote about small farmers not bring responsible for food borne illness since 2012 does not support your argument because it in fact shows that meat inspections are working. Additionally, I do not believe you have access to PulseNet's data on minor food borne illnesses that affect fewer than 3 people which means the impact small farmers have on public health is still hard to quantify. Only a fool would ask to stop a safety measure when we know it works by the historical reductions in food borne illness just because you're too naive to understand the benifits from food inspection on our economy by preventing illness.
Start advocating for the USDA to reduce inspection costs. Anything less is lazy and hurtful to your customer.
I worked at the Florida Department of Health with the CDC on the PulseNet program. Unfortunately, I cannot support you and must actually work against you until you begin to understand why your profit motives to avoid health inspections will cause unnecessary and preventable illness and death. Your quote about small farmers not bring responsible for food borne illness since 2012 does not support your argument because it in fact shows that meat inspections are working. Additionally, I do not believe you have access to PulseNet's data on minor food borne illnesses that affect fewer than 3 people which means the impact small farmers have on public health is still hard to quantify. Only a fool would ask to stop a safety measure when we know it works by the historical reductions in food borne illness just because you're too naive to understand the benifits from food inspection on our economy by preventing illness.
Start advocating for the USDA to reduce inspection costs. Anything less is lazy and hurtful to your customer.
Oh attention to Texas gov sites talking about modi, macron abott bimonthly meetings. They are training abott. Both modi and macron have their farmers protesting the genocidal agenda 2030 mandates. Western countries had 1 vote each while Africa is considered 54 countries granted not all voted in the creation but enough did to have an imbalance of power just look at africa2050. It must be address from where the mandate is coming from. Don’t believe me read trump and Biden executive orders then read same language on the UN websites prewritten.
We need to vote to get rid of all government interference. No more controlling American citizens and no more stealing from American citizens. Put our government back to working for Americans and not for their greedy interests.
No we do not.. wayyyy to many idiots
Agreed, I hate being able to go into any restaurant in the country and not worry about getting sick.
Stay home and eat then.@@reyndor1583
Your "vote" means nothing as long as you remain a citizen/slave, and allow the "United States/ United States gov" a private for profit corporation to remain in unlawful control of "Washington D.C." with the unlawfully "elected" officials and appointees in All branches of tyranny. There is no "government" until someone, or group of someones reinstalls our original constitution that was replaced in 1871.
Or just support parallel systems and let the gov't fade into irrelevance.
We need to get rid of federal government 3 and 4 letter agencies. Let the states regulate within the bounds of the constitution. Every time a state, or individual accepts federal money or subsidies, they consent to its rule. This all needs to end.
We have laws and regulations for reasons.. cuz Americans are ignorant. We have the USDA cuz if not then rednecks would be selling trash meat infested w mad cow disease. Farmers sure take the most subsidies so why can’t they just support themselves?
Dont divide and conquer. We should just go buy food from each other and fly the fda the finger about it.
@zeroshepard9513 pretty sure my post reflects the intent of the constitution, but I agree with your assessment, otherwise. I haven't bought meat from a grocery in several years and never will again if I can help it.
@@allentruitt8632 Laws regulating things based on the nature of a state make sense. Dont light a fire in a fire zone. Dont have armor piercing rounds in a multistory apartment building, but americans are americans in every state. They can do whatever keeps their body happy and healthy anywhere in the country.
Could have stopped after the first 8 words.
I worked for USDA/APHIS/VS for a couple of years as a Veterinary Medical Officer. The programs that I worked on were 99% political agenda and 1% food safety.
Pretty much ALL of Gov has gotten too big and too bloated. The farm Bill/USDA is just one of them! UGH
STOP farm bills !!! all of them !
There are many good things in the farm bill. But they have been amended to thin producers and usher in the replacements. Like Smithfield.
Soil and water conservation should have always been the only focus and farming efficiency, bmp’s, and prescribing the best cp’s. But it got away it’s become a beast of a book that US Farm Bill, and herds all the nations with similar legislation to the UN Agendas for sustainable societies. They are long reads but you will see in the amendments when it began and new bills passed implementing what you are witnessing today GLOBALLY.
#10thAmendment
Farm Bills should Assist Farm/Ranchers, not tell them not to plant or breed. Roosters are being Gassed or Stomped to death. No value is seen in them. Try it can be pet food. Just a few are kept to breed the next generation. Imports are killing our own production, and it is dangerous crap. Lead, Mercury, Aresnic, Cadmium in food, painted chinese old seafood.
Here's a test for everyone reading this message. When was the last time you seen a family own business and if you drove around your town how many corporate businesses are there compared to family businesses??? Family businesses are under attack
200,000 small buisness's during the summer of love.
I don't think there's an intentional attack against family businesses, but they have been disappearing due to our addiction to cheap crap....whether that be food, toys, entertainment...
We need to make the commitment to buy local, buy American. I believe we can right this ship, but it's going to take persistence, dedication, education. I'm in!
any free economy tends towards supporting individuals who do both good production and good business. Eventually we end up with Walmart and Amazon and Uber. We need regulation that intentionally and specifically supports small farms.
Mostly small family business in my town..it's rural, we do have Safeway. So, 90% are not big corporate.
When I drive down the street I see McDonald's, 7-Elevens, Walmart, Auto zones, KFC, and after passing 100 corporate businesses I might find one family-owned tire shop. Ran by an Hispanic family trying to live the American dream.
Please keep up the fight. We stand behind you 100%
Standing behind isn't going to do anything................. people need to stand together.
1933 was the beginning of the downfall of America... it's almost complete...😢
There were other downfalls, but in that point in time they got a lot of stuff rolling to help it along. National Banking Acts of 1863, The Meeting at Jekyll Island 1910...National Firearms Act of 1934, etc...
Sad but true😭
@@xephael3485 Can't forget 1913 federal income tax implemented even thought the supreme court shot it down the same year they fraudulently passed the 16th amendment and federal reserve was formed.
It's arguable it started going downhill when state representatives were meeting to adjust some things in the articles of confederation, but then in an act of conspiracy, created a new government that was then peddled to the Americans as essential for protecting freedom but had actually led to the largest gov't in recorded history that constantly violates freedom.
Started after the last president who was an actual signer of the constitution
All the farmers must get together and demand a bill to protect farmers to sell their products.
All non-corporate farmers.
@@lauraw.7008
They should come together and help each other
I am not a big fan of government agencies. They all seem to back the big guy and push down the little guy.
The USDA is no exception. Any time I hear about food being recalled it is always from the place that is inspected by the USDA.
Excellent work, young lady!
I am against big government, so the less legislation, the better. I'd rather get rid of fda altogether.
Better add WHO.
I'm against any injection of chemicals.
The legislation is written by corporate lobbyists. Follow the money, my friend.
@@muslalah5567 Of course, it's bribe money. Did you expect Congress to actually do any work? Too busy doing insider trading and vote buying. Ignoring real fraud. Over $1 TRILLION IN C FRAUD. Doctors are no better.
The Club is ABSOLUTELY WORLD WIDE.............Possibly
Agreed on corporate welfare and all the subsidies going only to a few big companies and none or too little given to the small farmers. In actuality its these small farms that need this help the most. Also, if you split up farming amongst a number of smaller farmers you don't have businesses that are "too big to fail" requiring another federal/taxpayer bailout of a large. poorly managed, bankrupt farming/processing conglomerate.
You hit the nail on the head at 5:20. Humans survived just fine for millions of years on meat and water. Make it so the only food one can purchase on food stamps is meat and water. This will solve a whole host of problems in this country as a large percentage of low income folks also suffer from very poor health, obesity, diabetes, etc. Ever better make it have to be regenerativly grown meat for even better nutrition. This will creat a massive need for regenerative farms in every community, providing income and jobs to these areas that are no longer there. This will take away the incentive for lobbyists, big food, and pharma to put their noses were it doesn't belong and save our country Trillions! Ultimately by doing this we will not only stimulate our communities and get healthier but also make a huge step towards addressing climate change in a way that actually works.
Agreed............. food stamps should not be buying Frootloops.
The problem isn't what one can buy with Food Stamps; it's that food stamps exist. Notice your suggestions are all 'we should make them do this' type of responses. The only response that can and will work is that the governments in this country do not have the power to force these or any behaviors. Don't pass laws that support your good intentions; repeals laws that prevent them. Whatever powers the governments have to force any intention -- good or bad -- is a power that those governments will eventually use against the people.
The government should not be involved at all. I should be able to purchase animals processed on the farm. It should be between me and the rancher, if we so choose. If food stamps are part of the US ag bill, then people should only be able to buy food that was grown here. I've seen local producers try to be able to accept food stamps, but they say it is too much of a hassle. In the olden days, people would "side hustle" for extra food from farmers. Don't get me going on the crop insurance and the new breed of "disaster farmers".
I don't understand how I should have to buy beef from Argentina or lamb from New Zealand at a big Supermarket when both beef and lamb are raised within 50 miles of my home, and in fact, locally produced supply probably could satisfy much or all of the local demand if farmers were free to do it.
I appreciate you keeping us informed about the USDA attempt to control the food supply chain. 🍅
Big Ag uses the USDA to control producers. Their lobbyists are the ones actually writing the legislation.
Individual states can make a difference here. In GA our Dept. of Ag. and legislatures fought for Farm to Table bill and it passed. We are fortunate to have a few more smaller processors get approved so more local farmer proteins can be sold to consumers. We are very proud of our Georgia Grown labled products and actually have a division within the Ag dept that promotes them.
It may be beneficial to start speaking/writing with your own Dept of Ag., state Senators, etc to start a grass roots movement on a smaller scale and go from there.
Congrats 🎉
Imagine if that 1.2 trillion food stamps could only be used for buying food directly by local farmers! Money would go to where it is needed and obesity would drop!
I am so glad I found you, I am learning so much in the past 4 yrs about control in our government. A sin to feed so much toxins/poisons in all the food over the past 60 yrs. GOD BLESS YOU
You are amazing. Thank you for what you do.
Abolish the farm bill and start anew.
Abolish all the agencies.
Follow the money. Abolish Big Ag whose army of lobbyists write the legislation.
Sorry I'm late had a baby goat born
Always fight!!!!!
Very informative. Farm Bill is too large and should not include food stamps. That program is large enough to stand alone and handle the scrutiny. Ear tags on cattle is an example of bureaucratic burdens put upon those who generate our food supply.
Keep up the amazing work, Grace!
Abolish the USDA and most other federal agencies. They keep communities weak which keeps the nation weak (which is clearly what they use to maintain control).
In my county in WV, over 10,000 acres of farmland has been lost to developers since only 2017!!! If we don’t start supporting small farmers there will be none left.
This is terrible 😣 thank you for sharing your information. I don’t think small farmers will get anywhere with politicians-they don’t agree on anything! Getting this information to the public is a great start. The food chain politics is getting very scary and most don’t know anything about it.
I am truly inspired by your words a d thoughts and it gives me great hope for the future of our nation and the citizens, families an communities thereof to see that we still have such bright young people as yourself to help guide our future. Now if only enough people will listen and get involved then we are finally getting on the right track. We talk endlessly about grass-fed and that's good but we need to talk more about grass-roots because I think this is where we will find the answers.
Amen!
We need more like you seriously
Get the government out of the situation
We sell shares on a live cow a couple months before processing. Then everyone that owns the cow split the cost of processing.
The more I read, hear and understand about what the Federal Govt. does, the more I think of a phrase from the Clinton years, "Don't ask, don't tell." This is not what and how this country was founded. No good deed now goes goes unpunished.
Having worked for the USDA I can tell you that it hasn't stopped the loss of farms and farm families nor has it helped small farmers to compete with large Corp. farms. Its best work has been in soil and water conservation where it has made a difference. In may opinion food stamps should be replace by commodity programs that offer free commodities (Milk, eggs, sugar, meat, flour, cooking oil, ETC. This was the original idea of the USDA to distribute excess commodities to those who could use them. Food stamps are too easy to abuse and the cost is far too much for taxpayers.
The fact that our soils and rivers are all saturated with lead arsenic and mercury should be statement of enough to discredit the vast complexes failures to oversee our waterways which may have been one of the few powers given to the federal government in the constitution.The the urbanized canal approach and the loss of wetlands as filters has created enormous damage beyond all reasonable expectation of unforseen consequences
Here in Kansas my husband worked at a small butcher/meat locker. It was USDA inspected and then custom meat was butchered after that. As far as I know there were no extra charges for federal inspection. This meat could be sold throughout the US. State inspected meat can be sold within the boundaries of the state.
I believe it is past time for the farm bills to be a thing of the past. They over reach their boundaries and are becoming more corrupt as time goes on.
Our food supply needs to be safe and those guidelines/rules are necessary. However, we are being regulated to death for the small farmer/homesteader. Why? The government needs to control the food to control the people
Thanks for all your reporting. Much appreciated.
1. The SNAP program should not be administered by the Dept. of Agriculture. That is a legacy from the time when surplus farm products were bought by the govt. and distributed to impoverished citizens.
2. SNAP benefits are what is keeping many folks, especially seniors and children, alive in the poorest parts of our cities and communities. It is essentially a subsidy for retail grocers, IMO. A comprehensive addressing of poverty in our country is badly needed and would include such things as housing prices, wages, health car costs and availability, right of renters to grow their own vegetables, utility expenses and so on. Now, obviously not everyone wants or has the means to grow a few herbs or vegetables, but those who do and can should not be hindered in doing so.
BINGO!! Thank you for speaking out about what the SNAP program is supposed to be intended for.. many people truly have no idea about how badly poverty has affected our country's most vulnerable individuals.. they also fail to understand how many people actually have jobs, but still barely make enough to cover their family's basic needs, especially when the cost of EVERYTHING is rising, but most wages aren't doing the same.. unfortunately, there are always those few individuals who abuse and misuse assistance programs, who make the public forget about those who have a genuine need for help, and who shouldn't have to be forced to go hungry because of the wrong doings of others.. the USDA most definitely should NOT have anything to do with the SNAP program whatsoever, and the fact that it does is what needs to be addressed.. I wholeheartedly support small farmers and small businesses over big corporations because it's the small farms and businesses that bring communities together and help them flourish.. big corporations have absolutely no care or interest in the communities they build their businesses in.. their only care is milking every dollar they possibly can from the communities for as long as they can, and if they cause a dozen small businesses to have to shut down while doing so, then that's even more money for them..
@@jennifermoody6987 Thank you for this. IMHO, the best way to deter abuse and misuse of assistance programs is to place those offices within the neighborhoods in which their clients live.
Thank you for covering this important story
Miss Grace… Congratulations on the 130,000 subscribers. 😊
I feel that all states should regulate what goes on in their states. Local farmers and livestock ranchers should be able to produce and sell their products without the federal
government’s interference. Side note: FDR never had America’s best interest in mind.
Salutes to you opening eyes
The USDA has become a monopolistic enterprise. In my area, if you can find an opening, appointments at a USDA approved processing facility are eight - to 12 months out and the processing fees eat up most of what little profit is left after the cost of raising the cattle in the first place. It is significantly more profitable to just sell the animal at an auction. The problem with that is that the people who buy the cattle at the auction are middle men who buy large quantities of cattle, cage them up in small places and then feed them corn to fatten them up. It is a very inhumane way to treat animals and leads to the need for antibiotics due to infections caused by inflammation, hoof damage, etc. It is not healthy for the cattle or those who eat it.
Wishing you well as you fight to maintain food freedom from the insanity
In a truly free nation the people should have the freedom to purchase their food from whom they choose. The government has gotten used to abusing its authority because no one has been willing to challenge their authority.
Free people freely exchanging ideas on the free and open market is what the founders of this country originally intended! We can do it better empowering more people and in riching more people through the free enterprise system
A corrupt farm bill will go through or not regardless of advocacy for small farmers having their interests represented within the bill. The corrupt power structure likely would not allow something like privately produced meat to be left on at passage. It would be put on to quell the small special interests and then parsed out. In texas we had a half dozen chicken bills last term. Very popular bills...did any of them even get out of committee?
Why do they prosecute the farmer and leave the local butcher to go scot-free? This threat might be intended as a bottleneck for limiting small farmers' entry into a lucrative business. USDA's involvement looks more of a money scheme than a quality control arrangement. Pursuing the farm bill might be the way to save the farmers and all people who need access to affordable real food. Keep the spirit!
Who has the multi million pound meat recall, not the small farmer
So glad you included snap!
If products are not sold across state lines, the Feds ought not to have jurisdiction. But, what do I know?
Girl, doing this podcast will put your life and your love in danger. You are so brave. I wanna say, people should support your cause. But we all know, people would rather keep quite on the side and continue living the life of obedience than loosing the conveniences that they think they have at the moment until SHTF and it is too late to fight. I believe you. We will pray for you and the cause. Please take care! Stay safe!
Great information- the Farm Bill also takes control of your farm out of your hands and allows the Government to have more control over your every day operation.
Thank you!
Your quote of Kissinger says all you need to know. Politicians and bureaucrats are not going to easily rid themselves of their power. Any -any- legislative attempt to gain food freedom will be undermining your intentions and replacing them with the under-handed intentions of the power-hungry.
Right, what really needs to happen is some scientific, quick, and automated method to quickly test the meat for safety perhaps some photographic method? Something that your ex FDA bacteriologist (and others) would agree with.
We as small town butchers HAVE to be very clean as survival depends on our customers being happy as it’s all about repeat customers. Thx for the bill exposure
Representative Thomas Massie’s proposed amendment to the constitution regarding the sale of raw milk across state lines needs to be expanded to include the protection of farmers and their ability to sell products. It seems the right to sell and purchase foods should be protected by our constitution (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) vs trying to amend the farm act which is clearly designed to protect and promote political agendas, not farmers or food.
thank you so much for all of us whom like to enjoy the freedom of choice as fellow Americans we like to choose what we like to shop for a variety of consumable products ..
Joe n Christina
Definitely protest the farm bill! Thanks for all this wonderful factual information 🙏
So crazy the USDA. Per chicken USDA stamp and butcher is $6 per bird 😮
Don't taxpayers fund the USDA? Why should small farmers (or any farmer) have to pay for the 'stamp' twice? It should be no extra cost to farmers, since they already need, and get a bit of, help from government.
5:26 Get the wins inside the farm bill if you can...otherwise fight to get it repealed.
Since you put out quality critically thinking work, for the first time ever, I will support a UA-camer. I dispise Google and UA-cam bc they sensor Americans, but your work is spot on!
Excellent!!!
Thankyou from Alaska🙏🏽👣🕊
Thank you
Nicely Done
Thank you so much for all you do.
You are doing a great job. Tks.
EXCELLENT work!! God bless.
finally some researched and helpful info...thank you
Thank you so much for your work...
It helps so much
Thank you 👍🏽❤️❤️❤️
Good stuff
I hope this isn't taken the wrong way. Her voice is crazy relaxing. I started following her page about a year ago as a way to get information to run my small farm, but sometimes I come just to hear her voice. I hope that didn't come off wrong.
This summary was clear, concise, and overall a good summary.
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Just a quick shout here to comend you and what you do to get a great product out for everyone. I'm not in farming at all, but have learned a lot following you site. Thanks for the insight you put out here.
As a Kentuckian who has a cattle ranch dating back to the 1840’s, I can say that Ag is an afterthought in this state. Until Congressman Massie really steps up and helps to bring back COOL, and puts farmers first it’s only lip service. BTW he lives in the county over from me, and has never visited our operation.
It’s outrageous.
Interesting thanks
I HAVE BEEN WAITING ALL THESE......
protesting may get you in front of more eyes but changing the legislation, particularly your state's legislation to bypass USDA codes. will get what you want.
Eloquently spoken Shepherdess. "State" legislator's need to shore up their own states agriculture programs while continuing to put pressure on the fed at that level for change. FDR was a progressive democrat yankee as were many republicans and was a disaster for the world but I digress. The federal government through "interstate commerce laws" Article 1 sec 8 of the Constitution does have a job but their overreach as you rightly pointed out has gone mad. The devil is in the details and in the politics which maybe one in the same. Doe Vindice from Virginia.
Total remapping a must!!
I really want to contribute to drastically improving this situation!
Wow! Great job of finding out what is really going on here. I have no idea what should happen with this legislation but I feel like there won’t be any improvements until the “left” is out of power. God Bless you!
Support Thomas Massie's HR 2814/PRIME Act.
Good report as always. Chipping everything is in some strange way like giving everything chipped to the ones who make laws that you do this when brands or tags should be sufficient for larger farms. People should not be chipped. Pretty soon we will have a choice.
Facts 💯
simplistic but true ; LESS gov. more FREEDOM
We have started a small cattle and sheep farm in Northern wisconsin. The meat processing problem was not on our radar when we started, and little did we know that the processors…4 hrs away….would make more on our years of labor than we could. Because of the draconian USDA rules, we have freezers full of meat that we can only give….not sell to friends and families. As a result, we have been forced to sell our animals as pets rather than food, and the viability of our regenerative farming is purely a labor of love rather than the retirement income we expected.
It is time we returned America to American values and pass legislation to return our country to sane and profitable place to earn a living instead of a massive socialist bureaucracy. The PRIME act would have helped, but for a 73 year old trying to simply retire with dignity, America does not seem the place to have done it.
GaryR Bratton
FDA, needs to be reduced and have each state handle themselves for their farmers better
Organize! Do not rush in like Jan 6th. Have a plan. I'm with ya!
If it is a state approved facility then the federales should not be involved.
See State of Wyoming Free Food Act
I would rather buy from a local butcher or farmer than the grocery store. Our government is out of control and needs reduced in size.
Need any workers I'm in Alaska I'll work be safe stay strong God bless your family
Rewrite the farm bill for FARMERS, starting with the small family operated farms that want to regenerate the soil, increase nutrition and store carbon in the ground instead of our atmosphere. We do not want to be held hostage by big AG/chemicals and lobbying and a broken government/food system. You GO Girl!!
💯 ... I have a micro ranch with only 45 Cows and a couple Bulls. Selling calves at auction doesn't pay the bills.
Selling Beef Shares (1/4 1/2 Whole) is the only way I can make ends meet. It recaptures some of those middle man margins, but not all. The Beef industry us dominated by 3 huge corporations(99% of all sales). Their combined scale and lobbying power are hard to compete against. Yes, the USDA is their tool to protect the corporations.. like all the Elitists they undersrand the power of "Instilling Fear" into the populace.. in this case ..the 'Fear of Food Contamination' ... however, the large food conglomerates and the big three beef producers have had a far worse reputation in circumstances of food contamination. Whether it's finding glass or metal shards in breakfast cereals or E coli in packaged ground beef it is the large corporations due to the massive scales which have had wide raging incidents across population and geography. In addition, it is hard to trace back to whichever factory farm that the tainted meat originated and it's impossible to contact all of the customers in a speedy and efficient way.
I stand by my product and I know my butcher stands by his services and if there's a problem we know exactly who to call where it originated and stop any sort of problem quickly. However because they're not giant factories and there is ownership oversight my operation and my butcher's operation are of high-quality and I am happy to allow any of my customers on my ranch or to tour my butchers operations
I would love to sell at retail.
Protest the farm bill. We had a good representative who voted against the farm bill as unconstitutional, which it is, and he was ridiculed and voted out mostly by his own party. You just don't vote against a farm bill in Kansas.
The large corporations hold the hands in writing the legislation
How about local farmers producing their products and selling it locally with no usda interference? I would gladly sign legal documents saying 'I know I am purchasing meat from a local farmer that hasn't been usda inspected and will not hold the farmer liable if I get sick from this meat'. Same with raw milk, raw milk cheese, produce not sprayed with pesticides... we need to get back to buying our food LOCAL as much as possible! I currently buy our meat from a local farm in South Texas and they do have the usda stickers, however now I'm understanding why its so expensive. Without the usda stamp, the cost of the meat would be more affordable for more people!
I have farmed for over 50 years, involved in dairy and beef. Farmers don't want government money just a fair price for their products. An example is milk. Farmers used to receive 40% or more of the retail price of milk, now it's less than 20%, the store that sells it gets more than the producers.