A documentary by Extra Good Union, How Huge Beef Is Killing America’s Farmers, options R-CALF USA member Coy Younger has been launched.
Younger, a fourth-generation cattle rancher from Missouri, captured America’s consideration first by sharing the backstory of his personal close to suicide – depressed cattle costs that rendered his ranching operation economically untenable – in Peter Goodman’s 2021 New York Occasions article, “Document Beef Costs, however Ranchers Aren’t Cashing In.” Quickly after, then Chairman of the Home Agriculture Committee, Consultant David Scott, D-Ga., invited Younger to testify earlier than his committee’s listening to in 2022 entitled, “An Examination of Worth Discrepancies, Transparency, and Alleged Unfair Practices in Cattle Markets.”
Following his extensively publicized congressional testimony, Younger conceived an concept to supply help to the untold numbers of ranchers who, like himself, had been experiencing a monetary disaster as a result of dysfunctional cattle market. Collectively, R-CALF USA and Younger launched the “No Rancher Left Behind” marketing campaign, a rancher/farmer dialog and consciousness marketing campaign.
Since Could of 2022, the collaborative R-CALF USA and Younger “No Rancher Left Behind” marketing campaign has sponsored a nationwide, weekly digital help group, offering a discussion board for equally located cattle farmers and ranchers to speak with each other. The group meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. MST.
In keeping with R-CALF USA CEO Invoice Bullard, as we speak’s documentary captures Younger’s story, “which exemplifies the continuing disaster within the U.S. cattle trade that’s harming America’s cattle producers on one finish of the meat provide chain and shoppers on the opposite.”
