Ranchers are a tight group and are tired of being robbed. I think you will see ranchers use the new plant almost exclusively and the big four will become shells of themselves.
To answer your question; you will likely not have any other choice but meat processed in this plant.
I for one would pay double for their meat if it meant those ranchers kept the lions share.
I can foresee a profit sharing table where processing plant would be charged with negotiating prices with retailers.
Ranchers would be paid by the pound and quality of meat on delivery of cattle. And will receive a percentage (residual payment/monthly) based on negotiated price and profits above and beyond what rancher has already been paid on date of delivery.
Processing plant would keep a pre-determined percentage of profits as a reward and incentive to continue to drive the best price for rancher.
Processing plant board and directors would be chosen by ranchers based on votes. Each ranchers votes would be derived from pounds of meat contributed or delivered. Example: 100k pounds contributed /10 = 10k votes (so numbers dont get rediculous). Mandatory vote every year with a clause for every 6 months when board is underperforming expected or projected profits.
Rancher pay/profit table may be divided up into a few regions with adjustments up or down based on that regions operating costs. Things like feed, land, shelter and water costs etc. Table would be adjusted on a yearly basis depending on projected regional future operating costs.
No doubt things are missing and someone will find an Achilles heal in there somewhere but it may be a start?
Many years ago we had a "Locker Plant" where you rented a freezer locker.
You sent your cattle in one end and it ended up as frozen butcher packages on the other end, in your locker. I can't see this as costing $300 million though. Maybe they have a much larger scale in mind.
I first heard of ranchers efforts for an independent processing planta year or so ago from a well known national AM radio and TV host that happens to live in North Texas and has a ranch in a state up north.
He was able to breakdown the big four sham. The big four has every bit of the market cornered. Transportation to the plant, processing, transportation to retailers to well entrenched and loyal relationships with major retailers. I suspect the 300M price tag includes not only a massive plant but all the support pieces. No doubt that price tag is massive but may also have a war chest reserve built in since they will come at them with everything they have. It's all or nothing for the big four and they will respond as such.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Like other ranchers across the country, Rusty Kemp for years grumbled about rock-bottom prices paid for the cattle he raised in central Nebraska, even as the cost of beef at grocery stores kept climbing.
He and his neighbors blamed it on consolidation in the beef industry stretching back to the 1970s that resulted in four companies slaughtering over 80% of the nation’s cattle, giving the processors more power to set prices while ranchers struggled to make a living. Federal data show that for every dollar spent on food, the share that went to ranchers and farmers dropped from 35 cents in the 1970s to 14 cents recently.
It led Kemp to launch an audacious plan: Raise more than $300 million from ranchers to build a plant themselves, putting their future in their own hands.
“We’ve been complaining about it for 30 years,” Kemp said. “It’s probably time somebody does something about it.”
Crews will start work this fall building the Sustainable Beef plant on nearly 400 acres near North Platte, Nebraska, and other groups are making similar surprising moves in Iowa, Idaho and Wisconsin. The enterprises will test whether it's really possible to compete financially against an industry trend that has swept through American agriculture and that played a role in meat shortages during the coronavirus pandemic.
The move is well timed, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture is now taking a number of steps to encourage a more diverse supply in the beef industry.
Still, it's hard to overstate the challenge, going up against huge, well-financed competitors that run highly efficient plants and can sell beef at prices that smaller operators will struggle to match.
The question is whether smaller plants can pay ranchers more and still make a profit themselves. An average 1,370-pound steer is worth about $1,630, but that value must be divided between the slaughterhouse, feed lot and the rancher, who typically bears the largest expense of raising the animal for more than a year.
David Briggs, the CEO of Sustainable Beef, acknowledged the difficulty but said his company's investors remain confident.
“Cattle people are risk takers and they’re ready to take a risk,” Briggs said.
Consolidation of meatpacking started in the mid-1970s, with buyouts of smaller companies, mergers and a shift to much larger plants. Census data cited by the USDA shows that the number of livestock slaughter plants declined from 2,590 in 1977 to 1,387 in 1992. And big processors gradually dominated, going from handling only 12% of cattle in 1977 to 65% by 1997.
Currently four companies — Cargill, JBS, Tyson Foods and National Beef Packing — control over 80% of the U.S. beef market thanks to cattle slaughtered at 24 plants. That concentration became problematic when the coronavirus infected workers, slowing and even closing some of the massive plants, and a cyberattack last summer briefly forced a shutdown of JBS plants until the company paid an $11 million ransom.
The Biden administration has largely blamed declining competition for a 14% increase in beef prices from December 2020 to August. Since 2016, the wholesale value of beef and profits to the largest processors has steadily increased while prices paid to ranchers have barely budged.
The backers of the planned new plants have no intention of replacing the giant slaughterhouses, such as a JBS plant in Grand Island, Nebraska, that processes about 6,000 cattle daily — four times what the proposed North Platte plant would handle.
However, they say they will have important advantages, including more modern equipment and, they hope, less employee turnover thanks to slightly higher pay of more than $50,000 annually plus benefits along with more favorable work schedules. The new Midwest plants are also counting on closer relationships with ranchers, encouraging them to invest in the plants, to share in the profits.
The companies would market their beef both domestically and internationally as being of higher quality than meat processed at larger plants.
Chad Tentinger, who is leading efforts to build a Cattlemen’s Heritage plant near Council Bluffs, Iowa, said he thinks smaller plants were profitable even back to the 1970s but that owners shifted to bigger plants in hopes of increasing profits.
Now, he said, “We want to revolutionize the plant and make it an attractive place to work.”
Besides paying ranchers more and providing dividends to those who own shares, the hope is that their success will spur more plants to open, and the new competitors will add openness to cattle markets.
Derrell Peel, an agricultural economist at Oklahoma State University, said he hopes they're right, but noted that research shows even a 30% reduction in a plant's size will make it far less efficient, meaning higher costs to slaughter each animal.
Unless smaller plants can keep expenses down, they will need to find customers who will pay more for their beef, or manage with a lower profit margin than the big companies.
“We have these very large plants because they’re extremely efficient,” Peel said.
According to the North American Meat Institute, a trade group that includes large and mid-size plants, the biggest challenge will be the shortage of workers in the industry.
It's unfair to blame the big companies and consolidation for the industry's problems, said Tyson Fresh Meats group president Shane Miller.
“Many processors, including Tyson, are not able to run their facilities at capacity in spite of ample cattle supply," Miller told a U.S. Senate committee in July. “This is not by choice: Despite our average wage and benefits of $22 per hour, there are simply not enough workers to fill our plants."
The proposed new plants come as the USDA is trying to increase the supply chain. The agency has dedicated $650 million toward funding mid-size and small meat and poultry plants and $100 million in loan guarantees for such plants. Also planned are new rules to label meat as a U.S. product to differentiate it from meat raised in other countries.
“We’re trying to support new investment and policies that are going to diversify and address that underlying problem of concentration,” said Andy Green, a USDA senior adviser for fair and competitive markets.
“Still, it’s hard to overstate the challenge, going up against huge, well financed competitors that run highly efficient plants and can sell beef at prices that smaller operators will struggle to match.”
I am more than willing to pay a higher price to obtain beef from a smaller independent processor. I’ve paid more for products that are made in the USA as opposed to China and I’m willing to do so in this case as well.
Was thinking the same. If one of the big 4 plants was to accidentally catch fire, do you think those ones would burn to the ground like the 200 other plants worldwide? Or is the cabal the only ones that are allowed to burn processing plants.
Not built yet, but coming. Will be a co-op for local farmers to bring their beef. Much like the old co-op dairies. Anyone know Bongard's in MN? Dairy co-op. Supplies local supermarkets and has their own shop.
I don't know if this is related but Don Jr. shared a short clip earlier this year about goodranchers.com so we ordered their chicken breast box, it's very good! It's packed in Friendswood TX. Maybe someone can dig on this location and see where the meat is coming from.
Many of the y-tube homesteaders had a get together, part of it was showing from execution to freezer how to process pigs. The homestead movement is really growing, you can ask about buying one of their animals, some as pets, some for butchering.
I have to watch on you tube because there is not much in the way of how to videos anywhere else.
They better have lots of layers of security. These food processing plants seem to be plagued will all manner of issues from fires, explosions, and God knows what.
I've been searching every which way I can to see if any of these people are WEF or CCP connected, can't find anything yet. Billy Gates is probably already trying to figure out a way to sabotage.
We did this in our industry. It is important to keep it a private company owned by ranchers, not a co-op. Co-ops work for about 10 years under the original group, but then become problematic. It is also important that the ranchers keep prices just right, making sure that the farmers are making good money to build more and keep stock healthy, while keeping greedy big groups out (usually owned by investment groups that suck out all the profits). I wish these guys all the best—this is the way forward.
EXACTLY RIGHT—and what we ought to do on every level possible: take things into our own hands and use our own power to run them. And if something goes wrong, fix it OURSELVES!
A deep state jew will somehow weasel his way into management. The problem with these things is they have so many resources, they will always eventually be in charge, even if it's decades down the line.
Where can I buy some of their product?
As soon as they build the building and contract farmers. Unknown where they will distribute, hopefully a MAGA supermarket chain opens.
Ranchers are a tight group and are tired of being robbed. I think you will see ranchers use the new plant almost exclusively and the big four will become shells of themselves.
To answer your question; you will likely not have any other choice but meat processed in this plant.
I for one would pay double for their meat if it meant those ranchers kept the lions share.
I can confirm that meat packers are screwing the ranchers.
I can foresee a profit sharing table where processing plant would be charged with negotiating prices with retailers.
Ranchers would be paid by the pound and quality of meat on delivery of cattle. And will receive a percentage (residual payment/monthly) based on negotiated price and profits above and beyond what rancher has already been paid on date of delivery.
Processing plant would keep a pre-determined percentage of profits as a reward and incentive to continue to drive the best price for rancher.
Processing plant board and directors would be chosen by ranchers based on votes. Each ranchers votes would be derived from pounds of meat contributed or delivered. Example: 100k pounds contributed /10 = 10k votes (so numbers dont get rediculous). Mandatory vote every year with a clause for every 6 months when board is underperforming expected or projected profits.
Rancher pay/profit table may be divided up into a few regions with adjustments up or down based on that regions operating costs. Things like feed, land, shelter and water costs etc. Table would be adjusted on a yearly basis depending on projected regional future operating costs.
No doubt things are missing and someone will find an Achilles heal in there somewhere but it may be a start?
Many years ago we had a "Locker Plant" where you rented a freezer locker.
You sent your cattle in one end and it ended up as frozen butcher packages on the other end, in your locker. I can't see this as costing $300 million though. Maybe they have a much larger scale in mind.
I first heard of ranchers efforts for an independent processing planta year or so ago from a well known national AM radio and TV host that happens to live in North Texas and has a ranch in a state up north.
He was able to breakdown the big four sham. The big four has every bit of the market cornered. Transportation to the plant, processing, transportation to retailers to well entrenched and loyal relationships with major retailers. I suspect the 300M price tag includes not only a massive plant but all the support pieces. No doubt that price tag is massive but may also have a war chest reserve built in since they will come at them with everything they have. It's all or nothing for the big four and they will respond as such.
This IS the way!
This IS the plan. Transferring power back from them to US the people.
“Noooooo you can’t say that because it’s reserved for commiessss reeeeeeeeee!!!”
This is the way has been reassigned to patriots. Zogs.
can i donate / invest?
Imagine if all the retards to played the MEGA MILLIONS put $10 each towards this cause instead of giving Uncle Sam all that idiot tax.
This is my question.
Co-op for farmers. Get your hat!
I’m in
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Like other ranchers across the country, Rusty Kemp for years grumbled about rock-bottom prices paid for the cattle he raised in central Nebraska, even as the cost of beef at grocery stores kept climbing.
He and his neighbors blamed it on consolidation in the beef industry stretching back to the 1970s that resulted in four companies slaughtering over 80% of the nation’s cattle, giving the processors more power to set prices while ranchers struggled to make a living. Federal data show that for every dollar spent on food, the share that went to ranchers and farmers dropped from 35 cents in the 1970s to 14 cents recently.
It led Kemp to launch an audacious plan: Raise more than $300 million from ranchers to build a plant themselves, putting their future in their own hands.
“We’ve been complaining about it for 30 years,” Kemp said. “It’s probably time somebody does something about it.”
Crews will start work this fall building the Sustainable Beef plant on nearly 400 acres near North Platte, Nebraska, and other groups are making similar surprising moves in Iowa, Idaho and Wisconsin. The enterprises will test whether it's really possible to compete financially against an industry trend that has swept through American agriculture and that played a role in meat shortages during the coronavirus pandemic.
The move is well timed, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture is now taking a number of steps to encourage a more diverse supply in the beef industry.
Still, it's hard to overstate the challenge, going up against huge, well-financed competitors that run highly efficient plants and can sell beef at prices that smaller operators will struggle to match.
The question is whether smaller plants can pay ranchers more and still make a profit themselves. An average 1,370-pound steer is worth about $1,630, but that value must be divided between the slaughterhouse, feed lot and the rancher, who typically bears the largest expense of raising the animal for more than a year.
David Briggs, the CEO of Sustainable Beef, acknowledged the difficulty but said his company's investors remain confident.
“Cattle people are risk takers and they’re ready to take a risk,” Briggs said.
Consolidation of meatpacking started in the mid-1970s, with buyouts of smaller companies, mergers and a shift to much larger plants. Census data cited by the USDA shows that the number of livestock slaughter plants declined from 2,590 in 1977 to 1,387 in 1992. And big processors gradually dominated, going from handling only 12% of cattle in 1977 to 65% by 1997.
Currently four companies — Cargill, JBS, Tyson Foods and National Beef Packing — control over 80% of the U.S. beef market thanks to cattle slaughtered at 24 plants. That concentration became problematic when the coronavirus infected workers, slowing and even closing some of the massive plants, and a cyberattack last summer briefly forced a shutdown of JBS plants until the company paid an $11 million ransom.
The Biden administration has largely blamed declining competition for a 14% increase in beef prices from December 2020 to August. Since 2016, the wholesale value of beef and profits to the largest processors has steadily increased while prices paid to ranchers have barely budged.
The backers of the planned new plants have no intention of replacing the giant slaughterhouses, such as a JBS plant in Grand Island, Nebraska, that processes about 6,000 cattle daily — four times what the proposed North Platte plant would handle.
However, they say they will have important advantages, including more modern equipment and, they hope, less employee turnover thanks to slightly higher pay of more than $50,000 annually plus benefits along with more favorable work schedules. The new Midwest plants are also counting on closer relationships with ranchers, encouraging them to invest in the plants, to share in the profits.
The companies would market their beef both domestically and internationally as being of higher quality than meat processed at larger plants.
Chad Tentinger, who is leading efforts to build a Cattlemen’s Heritage plant near Council Bluffs, Iowa, said he thinks smaller plants were profitable even back to the 1970s but that owners shifted to bigger plants in hopes of increasing profits.
Now, he said, “We want to revolutionize the plant and make it an attractive place to work.”
Besides paying ranchers more and providing dividends to those who own shares, the hope is that their success will spur more plants to open, and the new competitors will add openness to cattle markets.
Derrell Peel, an agricultural economist at Oklahoma State University, said he hopes they're right, but noted that research shows even a 30% reduction in a plant's size will make it far less efficient, meaning higher costs to slaughter each animal.
Unless smaller plants can keep expenses down, they will need to find customers who will pay more for their beef, or manage with a lower profit margin than the big companies.
“We have these very large plants because they’re extremely efficient,” Peel said.
According to the North American Meat Institute, a trade group that includes large and mid-size plants, the biggest challenge will be the shortage of workers in the industry.
It's unfair to blame the big companies and consolidation for the industry's problems, said Tyson Fresh Meats group president Shane Miller.
“Many processors, including Tyson, are not able to run their facilities at capacity in spite of ample cattle supply," Miller told a U.S. Senate committee in July. “This is not by choice: Despite our average wage and benefits of $22 per hour, there are simply not enough workers to fill our plants."
The proposed new plants come as the USDA is trying to increase the supply chain. The agency has dedicated $650 million toward funding mid-size and small meat and poultry plants and $100 million in loan guarantees for such plants. Also planned are new rules to label meat as a U.S. product to differentiate it from meat raised in other countries.
“We’re trying to support new investment and policies that are going to diversify and address that underlying problem of concentration,” said Andy Green, a USDA senior adviser for fair and competitive markets.
“Still, it’s hard to overstate the challenge, going up against huge, well financed competitors that run highly efficient plants and can sell beef at prices that smaller operators will struggle to match.”
I am more than willing to pay a higher price to obtain beef from a smaller independent processor. I’ve paid more for products that are made in the USA as opposed to China and I’m willing to do so in this case as well.
Is there anything "green" or "vegan" that doesn't totally screw another industry???
Apparently a Green Andy
They also need to build a concrete wall around it, a fire station next door, and install a few SAMs on the roof for good measure.
Was thinking the same. If one of the big 4 plants was to accidentally catch fire, do you think those ones would burn to the ground like the 200 other plants worldwide? Or is the cabal the only ones that are allowed to burn processing plants.
MAGA!
This is the power anti capatalist commies want to take from us.
Yes, I would invest in this.
My son in law is Is on that
yes how can I invest or purchase their products?
Not built yet, but coming. Will be a co-op for local farmers to bring their beef. Much like the old co-op dairies. Anyone know Bongard's in MN? Dairy co-op. Supplies local supermarkets and has their own shop.
I don't know if this is related but Don Jr. shared a short clip earlier this year about goodranchers.com so we ordered their chicken breast box, it's very good! It's packed in Friendswood TX. Maybe someone can dig on this location and see where the meat is coming from.
maybe this investors breakdown and others posts will offer some insight
Make sure you got a good sprinkler system
Headline News: "US rancher's newly built meat packing plant catches fire 'unexpectedly'."
The deep state criminals will never let them build it.
Hire some military vets for security. Wouldn't want some "accidents" to happen because of Big Corp Mercs trolling around.
Awesome! Way to get around the gate-keepers.
And we should buy from them ONLY from now on.
This is no bull pure Murica
I heard an Indian Tribe/Reservation is planning on doing that here in Alabama also. I'd buy meat from them instead of the store if they open it up.
I'd bet it "accidentally" burns down.
Many of the y-tube homesteaders had a get together, part of it was showing from execution to freezer how to process pigs. The homestead movement is really growing, you can ask about buying one of their animals, some as pets, some for butchering.
I have to watch on you tube because there is not much in the way of how to videos anywhere else.
Now wait, for the government to make some ridiculous regulation to shut him down
They better have lots of layers of security. These food processing plants seem to be plagued will all manner of issues from fires, explosions, and God knows what.
I've been searching every which way I can to see if any of these people are WEF or CCP connected, can't find anything yet. Billy Gates is probably already trying to figure out a way to sabotage.
They probably use Linux.
We did this in our industry. It is important to keep it a private company owned by ranchers, not a co-op. Co-ops work for about 10 years under the original group, but then become problematic. It is also important that the ranchers keep prices just right, making sure that the farmers are making good money to build more and keep stock healthy, while keeping greedy big groups out (usually owned by investment groups that suck out all the profits). I wish these guys all the best—this is the way forward.
Buying their product is good, but to really stick it to big meat, buy local. Lots of farmers sell beef, you just have to look for it
There are not enough local cows to feed the MAGA army, but I agree…buy local when possible.
EXACTLY RIGHT—and what we ought to do on every level possible: take things into our own hands and use our own power to run them. And if something goes wrong, fix it OURSELVES!
How ELEMENTARY—and AMERICAN—is THAT??
🇺🇸
A deep state jew will somehow weasel his way into management. The problem with these things is they have so many resources, they will always eventually be in charge, even if it's decades down the line.
What about chicken? The Deep State wants to shut that down too.
Gotta love those farmers and ranchers. They get things done!
This is what we need. These ranchers are heroes.
Fuck yeah!
It will force the others to be better or lose it all.
All according to plan.