Pikes Peak Cattlemen's Association 3-2-19

1. Pikes Peak Cattlemen’s Association
March 2, 2019
Pikes Peak from Chico Basin Ranch
By Duke Phillips

2. Photograph from the book, Great Ranches of the West ©2007 Jim Keen, All Rights Reserved
Read a sample chapter and order the book at www.greatranchesofthewest.com – 800-363-5336
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3. Photograph from the book, Great Ranches of the West ©2007 Jim Keen, All Rights Reserved
Read a sample chapter and order the book at www.greatranchesofthewest.com – 800-363-5336
The National Security issue
no one is talking about!
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Without markets, we
lose our land.
Without markets, we
lose our land stewards
and husbandmen.
Without markets, we
lose our freedom!

5. So this is where you grew up...
What happened Grandpa?
The U.S. has lost nearly half of it’s ranchers,
over 90% of it’s hog farmers and over 80%
of it’s dairymen in the last 35 years.
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"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." MikeCallicrate.com

6. Why farmers only get 7.8
cents of every dollar
Americans spend on food
By Caitlin Dewey, Washington Post

7. The big packers are driving the getaway car.
Partners in Crime
The big retailers are robbing the bank.

8. *All Fresh Choice Beef – USDA-ERS Data
35.0%
40.0%
45.0%
50.0%
55.0%
60.0%
65.0%
70.0%
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1950
1975
1995
Farm share of the consumer retail beef dollar
2017
Rancher’s have lost around
30% of their share of the retail beef
dollar, amounting to over $1,000 per
head in lost income.

9. *All Fresh Choice Beef – USDA-ERS Data
35.0%
40.0%
45.0%
50.0%
55.0%
60.0%
65.0%
70.0%
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1950
1975
1995
Farm share of the consumer retail beef dollar
2017
Rancher’s have lost around
30% of their share of the retail beef
dollar, amounting to over $1,000 per
head in lost income.
It’s called STEALING!

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Multinational corporations hide behind the Zombie brands of
once independently owned, popular niche brand companies

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General Mills paid
$100 million for
Epic. Like Coleman
Natural Beef and
Niman Pork,
another private
brand with integrity
and good mission is
gone!

12. Middlemen: “Drones of the national beehive.”
“They live and are dependent upon the honey
that others collect. Like the unemployed, they
are supported at the cost of the nation.”
- Vincent C. Vickers, Governor of the Bank of England in 1910

13. *Canadian data
Powerful farm input suppliers continue to increase
their share of farm income.

15. "What we support prospers, what we feed grows."
MikeCallicrate.com
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Last 5 years average pre-tax ROE based on SEC reports:
Tyson 30.7% ROE
Monsanto 39.8% ROE
Bayer AG 21.8% ROE
Deere & Co. 32.7% ROE
1996 to 2016 farm income according to ERS/USDA:
The farmers ROE was negative 6.9%
Return on Equity (ROE)

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“THE HUSBANDMAN THAT LABORETH MUST BE THE
FIRST PARTAKER OF THE FRUITS.” - SAINT PAUL
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Not a single USDA employee knew where the St. Paul
quote was inscribed on the building.

18. Emptiness: A picture of big meat packer
retaliation – Why cattle feeders won’t speak out
against meat packer abuses…
Callicrate Cattle Co., 1999 18"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
Callicrate feed yard closed in
1999 when the meat packers
refused to buy the cattle.

19. The fight for producer
protections continues
after USDA Ag
Secretary, Sonny
Perdue, caves to
corporate interests,
vacating century old
anti-trust law.
November 29, 2018

20. An American Crime Family

21. In 2017 Brazilian
owned, and Greeley CO
based JBS, bribed
inspectors to keep
rotten meat on the
market …
A Brazilian Crime Family
… and then hired the
USDA Administrator that
allowed it into the U.S.

22. “We have more to fear from USDA
than any foreign power.”
- Allan Savory, January 2018

23. December 24, 2013 – The dirt cloud extended from Colorado Springs to the
Colorado/Kansas border north of Lamar. It was over a mile high (12,500 ft.
above sea level), 4 miles across, moving south at 50 mph – See The Dust Bowl
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

24. Much of Eastern Colorado’s top soil is already gone.

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Meathooked & End of Water
Mike Callicrate asks, “Are we going to be so foolish as to let this precious resource run out?”

26. "What we support prospers, what we feed grows."
MikeCallicrate.com
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Brought to you by Sysco and JBS

27. "What we support prospers, what we feed grows."
MikeCallicrate.com
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Brought to you by Sysco and JBS
“Aspen Ridge Beef” is a JBS brand

28. October 4, 2018 - 6.9 million pounds of beef
recalled after 57 sickened from possible antibiotic
resistant salmonella contamination
December 4, 2018 - 5 million pounds of beef
recalled possible antibiotic resistant salmonella
contamination

29. US Government Says 'Pink Slime'
Can Now Be Called Ground Beef
February 15, 2019

30. US Government Says 'Pink Slime'
Can Now Be Called Ground Beef
February 15, 2019
Anhydrous ammonia is not food!

31. Big meat packers steal from ranchers - invest in fake meat.
Tyson Foods Invests in Cultured Meat
with Stake in Memphis Meats

32. Market predators, in
partnership with the Beef
Checkoff, have stolen the
word “Sustainable” and
now plan to dictate to
sustainable ranchers how
to operate.

34. Grazing livestock are the
solution to desertification
and carbon sequestration,
not the problem.

35. HC – High Density Continuous Grazing
LC – Low Density Continuous Grazing
AMP – Adaptive Multi-Paddock Grazing

36. "What we support prospers, what we feed grows." -
MikeCallicrate.com
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37. How to build
beef demand …