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Why Is Beef So Expensive Right Now? A Farmer Explains the 2026 Cattle Squeeze

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Why Is Beef So Expensive Right Now? A Farmer Ex...

Grocery store beef just hit an all-time high, up 16% in a year. A grass-fed...

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Why Is Beef So Expensive Right Now? A Farmer Ex...

Grocery store beef just hit an all-time high, up 16% in a year. A grass-fed...

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What's Actually In Grocery Store Ground Beef (And Why Ours Feels Different)

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What's Actually In Grocery Store Ground Beef (A...

A grass-fed beef farmer on what 'ground beef' actually means at the grocery store, and...

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What's Actually In Grocery Store Ground Beef (A...

A grass-fed beef farmer on what 'ground beef' actually means at the grocery store, and...

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Meet the Big 4 Meatpackers: A Farmer's Guide to the Companies That Control 85% of America's Beef

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Meet the Big 4 Meatpackers: A Farmer's Guide to...

JBS, Cargill, Tyson, National Beef. A grass-fed beef farmer explains who the Big 4 Meatpackers...

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Meet the Big 4 Meatpackers: A Farmer's Guide to...

JBS, Cargill, Tyson, National Beef. A grass-fed beef farmer explains who the Big 4 Meatpackers...

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Glyphosate Now Has Extra Legal Protection: A Farmer's Take on the Supreme Court's Bayer-Monsanto Ruling

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Glyphosate Now Has Extra Legal Protection: A Fa...

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bayer-Monsanto, stripping states of the power to require...

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Glyphosate Now Has Extra Legal Protection: A Fa...

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bayer-Monsanto, stripping states of the power to require...

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The Longest Rap Sheet in the Meat Business (Inside JBS, the Biggest of the Big 4 Meatpackers)

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The Longest Rap Sheet in the Meat Business (Ins...

Bribery, child labor, price-fixing, lied antibiotic-free claims, illegal Amazon deforestation: a grass-fed beef farmer breaks...

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The Longest Rap Sheet in the Meat Business (Ins...

Bribery, child labor, price-fixing, lied antibiotic-free claims, illegal Amazon deforestation: a grass-fed beef farmer breaks...

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Why Are American Farms Disappearing? (77 Per Day, and the Tractor That Explains It)

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Why Are American Farms Disappearing? (77 Per Da...

America has lost 150,000 farms this decade, or 77 per day. A grass-fed beef farmer...

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Why Are American Farms Disappearing? (77 Per Da...

America has lost 150,000 farms this decade, or 77 per day. A grass-fed beef farmer...

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What Is the New World Screwworm? (And What It Means for US Beef Prices)

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What Is the New World Screwworm? (And What It M...

A grass-fed beef farmer explains the New World screwworm parasite, how we eradicated it in...

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What Is the New World Screwworm? (And What It M...

A grass-fed beef farmer explains the New World screwworm parasite, how we eradicated it in...

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Are You Buying the Wrong Kind of Share? (A SpaceX vs. Beef Share Choose-Your-Own-Adventure)

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Are You Buying the Wrong Kind of Share? (A Spac...

A grass-fed beef farmer's satirical Path A / Path B comparison: SpaceX share (Neuralink dystopia)...

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Are You Buying the Wrong Kind of Share? (A Spac...

A grass-fed beef farmer's satirical Path A / Path B comparison: SpaceX share (Neuralink dystopia)...

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How Long Does It Take to Raise Grass-Fed Beef? (24 to 30 Months, Here's Why)

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How Long Does It Take to Raise Grass-Fed Beef? ...

A farmer on why 24-30 months on grass beats 14 months in a feedlot, why...

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How Long Does It Take to Raise Grass-Fed Beef? ...

A farmer on why 24-30 months on grass beats 14 months in a feedlot, why...

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Always 100% Grass Fed AND Finished

Dry-Aged 14 Days

Shipping to the Northeast weekly

Serving Families Since 2017

USDA Inspected & Certified

Always 100% Grass Fed AND Finished

Dry-Aged 14 Days

Shipping to the Northeast weekly

Serving Families Since 2017

USDA Inspected & Certified