How a saddle makers years of lies and fraud have finally caught up to him.
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In the past few years, back when Corona was just a beer, his company along with Cargill, JBS, and National together had closed a total of 12 beef packing plants in small communities that, “could have fed the nation.”
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“The monopolization of the system is severe, it is real and we have no control over our pricing of our product.”
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I knew there would be consequences once I posted on Facebook telling my story. I knew many would not approve of my actions. However, this was an opportunity to speak truth to what is currently going on within our industry.
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On Friday March 20, after the markets had closed on another piss poor week in the cattle market, word started to spread that Tyson Foods cattle buyers were calling up cattlemen that they had already bought cattle from, and told them that they were going to give them $5 more per hundred weight for the cattle they had already bought. This had all of cow country scratching their heads, why?
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“If demand is up why are prices down?” It’s the question the anchor asks. Its the obvious question that any idiot would ask after taking one look at what is going on in the beef industry.
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Yeah, I know, everybody thinks they are getting screwed all the time. My great grandpa had a saying that has been passed down, "Farmers buy retail, sell wholesale, and pay the freight both ways." As I've gotten older, more involved, and learned a little more about how the world works, how the industry works, I’ve realized something... Grandpa was right, but in this case it's not just farmers.
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“Stories and stories- a storyteller has all kinds of stories going at one time out of which he hopes he can find one story he can tell at one time. ”
— NORMAN MACLEAN- YOUNG MEN AND FIRE
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Two cattlemen show up at the home of a known cattle thief, and were never seen again. It sounds like a story from 150 years ago, but its not. It happened in July.
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I have never seen it laid out so well as Ms. Ellis does in this video. As she stands on the hill over looking her ranch and the scenery turns to a rock quarry and then to subdivisions, that is what people need to see and understand.
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So last night the Des Moines Register newspaper has became the nations punching bag , because they suck. To many of us Iowans this is nothing new.
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Just getting bucked off certainly doesn’t qualify as a wreck. But that buckskin wasn’t done with me. Although he had about 150,000 acres to choose where to run, he chose to make a 100-yard circle and come right back at the stunned cowboy standing there hatless, surrounded by remnants of a Walkman and a Marshall Tucker tape.
If anything should happen...you tell them what happened here...you tell them.”
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Southern Oregon’s ZX Ranch operates on over a million acres and is an outfit every cowboy wants to work for at least once.
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When we arrived, we were greeted by a fresh bear claw mark down the logs of the wall that held the door. Talk about welcoming! There was no plumbing and no electricity.
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