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🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
In 100 years, America had lost over 5 million farms!!!
We NEED to save our farms.
We need more farmers more than ever.
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
Four packing companies process most of America's beef so small ranchers started booking slaughterhouses that arrive on wheels
Mobile processing units are fully inspected facilities built into trailers that come to the animal instead of the reverse.
Ranchers skip the long haul and the stress on the herd and the wait for packing plants booked out for months.
The units are one reason more small ranches can sell cuts directly to households.
Find local ranchers near you on Localize
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
The system is stacked against the people who feed us… A Virginia farmer wrote a book called “Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal.” Every single chapter is a real law:
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
A 7000 acre Indiana farm dropped every chemical and got more profitable because the chemicals were eating the profit
This is not a little homestead. It's a full scale grain operation the size the system says needs chemistry
He cut synthetic inputs year after year and watched costs fall faster than yields
The profit per acre went up as the spray bill went to zero
The biggest secret in farming is that the inputs were the expense all along
Find large scale clean grain farms near you on Localize
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
If this last week showed us anything, it's that consumers actually do care where their food comes from. Given the choice, they'll support the American rancher every time.
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
🚨 THIS IS HUGE NEWS FOR AMERICAN RANCHERS, WORKERS, AND FAMILIES! 🇺🇸
Just weeks after Tyson abruptly announced the closure of its Joslin, Illinois beef plant—affecting nearly 2,700 workers—an independent Iowa packing plant is preparing to fire back up.
Daisy River is working to hire many of the skilled workers displaced by the Joslin closure, including people who dedicated 20, 30, and even 40 years of their lives to the beef industry.
Now, the American Rancher Alliance is in the early stages of aligning with GridironBeef.com, launched through the partnership of Jason Birt, legendary Super Bowl–winning coach Jon Gruden, and Tom Zenner.
Together, we are working to build something America desperately needs: an independent, American beef supply chain that supports American ranchers, independent packers, American workers, and American consumers.
And right now, you can help support this movement while filling your freezer with American beef!
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🥩 At least 64 pounds with a one-eighth share
🥩 At least 515 pounds with a whole share
🥩 Born, raised, and finished in the USA
Go to GridironBeef.com and use code ARA at checkout!
Every purchase helps support American ranchers, restart an independent Iowa packing plant, restore American jobs, and break the Big Four’s control over America’s beef supply chain.
BUY AMERICAN BEEF. SUPPORT AMERICAN JOBS. HELP US TAKE BACK OUR BEEF SUPPLY CHAIN! 🇺🇸🥩
Learn more about the American Rancher Alliance at GoARABeef.org.
@GridironPosts @BarstoolGruden @tomzenner @WyoWagyu
#AmericanRancherAlliance #AmericanBeef #BuyAmerican #AmericanRanchers #GridironBeef #JonGruden #IowaBeef #SupportAmericanJobs #BeefShares #BigFour #FoodSecurity #MadeInAmerica
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
A Hawaii teen just found a fungus that eats the plastic and sunscreen chemicals polluting the ocean.
Kaiser High senior Vera Wang built a coconut fiber filter to pull microplastics and sunscreen residue from seawater, then tested it in a University of Hawaii lab.
She found fungi living naturally on coconut husks can biodegrade both pollutants, work that won top honors at the 2026 Hawaii Science Fair and a spot at the international fair in Phoenix.
Find all natural alternatives on Localize.
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
A Virginia farmer wrote a book called Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal and every single chapter is a real law
He wanted to sell his neighbors chicken processed on his own farm and the rules said no
He wanted to build small and simple and the codes were written for industrial scale
So he wrote the book naming every rule that blocks a small farm from feeding its own community
The most radical thing he ever did was describe the rulebook out loud
Find farms fighting to feed their neighbors near you on Localize
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
Farmer Joel Salatin is sounding the alarm.
Family farms are going bankrupt at record rates.
And who’s buying up their farmland?
“Bill Gates.”
“BlackRock.”
“Vanguard.”
“They’re like vultures on a carcass.”
“They’re picking.”
“I just spoke at a great big conventional farm conference out in Iowa.”
“Had 1,000 conventional corn and soybean farmers there.”
“One of the other speakers was a guy who is a financial adviser to about 50 family offices.”
“He admitted to the group, ‘I’ve never been on a farm in my life.’”
But he revealed that all of a sudden, he has “all these family offices asking about investing in farmland.”
“He said half of all billionaire families today have just been created in the last five years.”
And all of that newly concentrated wealth is interested in buying up farmland.
Market concentration is one of the most critical issues facing farmers today.
With current trends, it’s only on track to get worse.
But if we want to protect family farms from being overrun by corporate power, we must reverse it.
@JoelSalatin @PalisadesRadio
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
A family run butcher shop in Provo raises its own cattle just outside town.
They handle the entire process themselves, from breeding to butchering to serving it fresh.
Their fryer runs on rendered beef tallow instead of seed oils, the same fat behind their crispy fries.
Four generations of the same family have kept this farm to table model going.
It is a rare full picture of where meat actually comes from.
Support Ranch-to-table on Localize.
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
A local government has launched a WAR on a family-owned farm... and they NEED OUR HELP in EXPOSING this insanity.
A nearly 100-year-old Ohio family farm won its zoning case, then the county voted to keep suing them anyway.
The Garver Family Farm in Butler County has farmed the same land for nearly a century. They built a new market building to sell their produce, wine, and farm products.
Butler County zoning officials claimed the building was too commercial because it included a deli, bakery, and coffee shop, and issued a violation.
The family appealed. In March 2026 the Butler County Board of Zoning Appeals sided with them 4-1 and ruled the operation could keep its agricultural designation.
The county then appealed that decision to Common Pleas Court. In late July commissioners voted 2-1 to continue the legal fight.
The real driver appears to be money. Reclassifying the property as primarily commercial would strip the preferential Current Agricultural Use Value tax rate and raise the family’s property taxes on the building and land.
Owner Michael Garver has said the higher costs could put the multi-generational operation under.
A family farm that grows food and makes its own wine is being forced to keep spending money in court after already winning once.
This is what government looks like when it decides your success is a problem it can tax.
EXPOSE THIS.
#FamilyFarm #Ohio
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
The average American farmer is nearly sixty years old and nobody is replacing them
The average age of a US farmer is close to sixty.
Land prices and startup costs make entry nearly impossible for young people.
A generation of farms will change hands within the next decade.
Who buys that land decides what the food system looks like next.
Support the farms still standing by finding them on Localize.
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
Procter & Gamble is buying supplement brand Thorne for 3.8 billion dollars.
It is the latest move by a consumer goods giant expanding into wellness, adding to a lineup that already includes Metamucil, Align, and New Chapter.
Consolidation like this is worth watching, since fewer independent brands often means less transparency about where ingredients come from.
Buy from independently owned brands on Localize.
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
A handful of major food brands are now selling dairy that skipped the cow entirely.
The protein comes from engineered microbes fermented in tanks, no milking required.
Breyers put it into a lactose free dessert stocked at big box grocers, and Nestle folded it into a protein powder under its Orgain brand.
Starbucks even quietly tested milk made this way before shelving the idea.
It is framed as sustainable, but still an engineered protein standing in for whole food.
Source local dairy.
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🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
There is a farm within driving distance of almost every American and most people never find it
Small farms rarely have marketing budgets or retail presence.
They sell out of coolers, farm stands, and pickup drops.
The barrier has never been supply, it has been discovery.
Every one of these farms is looking for regular customers.
Find the ones near you on Localize.
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
A single farm in Iowa is guarding 20,000 kinds of food your grocery store will never sell you
Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa has spent 50 years collecting rare heirloom seeds.
Their living seed bank holds over 20,000 open pollinated varieties with the stories behind them.
They back the collection up in the Svalbard doomsday vault in the Arctic.
Modern agriculture narrowed us down to a handful of commercial crops, and they're saving the rest.
Every variety they keep alive is a food the industry decided wasn't worth selling.
Find farms growing heirloom and heritage crops on Localize.
🇺🇲 Julius Don Atlas 🇺🇲 retweeted
A dairy farmer quit pesticides sixty years before it was cool because he watched them poison his neighbor's land
Harold Hartzler stopped using chemical pesticides, herbicides, and hormones on his Ohio farm back in 1964.
He made the call after watching chemical runoff wreck a neighboring farm after a storm.
His logic was simple, if it poisons the field it poisons the person eating from it.
Hartzler Family Dairy in Wooster still bottles in glass, low temp, and never homogenized.
He was right sixty years before the rest of the country caught up.
Find farms that never sold out to chemicals on Localize.
