Podcasts about ranch freedom alliance

Judith McGeary is an attorney, activist, sustainable farmer, and executive director of Farm & Ranch Freedom Alliance. This episode covered policy and law around agriculture. Farm & Ranch Freedom Alliance Website

Meat and poultry shortages. Skyrocketing prices on eggs. Scarcity of dairy products on supermarket shelves. The last few years (and months) have revealed how fragile the food infrastructure is in the United States. What options do we have to help us secure good food, from reliable sources? Judith McGeary, the founder of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, offers insights on our options. Today she sheds light on how to protect the small farmer for the benefit of our communities, and our health. She covers the importance of purchasing from local farmers with regenerative farming practices. She discusses how governmental regulations favor industrial large-scale farming and how we can contact policymakers to make farming more accessible and less expensive for the small farmer. In sum, she offers practical steps we can take to make a healthier future, in every sense of the word, for all of us. Check out Judith's website: farmandranchfreedom.org Take the 50% pledge! See our sponsors: Serenity Farm Bread, Paleo Valley, Optimal Carnivore

Texas Slim is the author and creator of the Newsletter "Harvest of Deception." https://inititive.substack.com/ He has also established a new initiative to decentralize being able to source animal protein in the state of Texas called the Texas Beef Initiative #TxBeefInitiative  You can find our more at https://mtminitiative.com/ or Twitter https://twitter.com/moderntman 00:00 Introduction 01:03 Texas Beef Initiative 02:53 Relationship-building 04:54 Texas beef industry 07:42 Beef industry bottlenecks 10:46 Multinational corporate interests 12:44 Economies of scale 15:39 Cost of beef vs cost of insurance, healthcare, etc. 17:20 Beef Initiative going global 20:19 Voting with your pocketbook 23:29 MCOOL 25:56 Regenerative agriculture 27:47 Buying from local rancher 30:08 Stacking beef 32:15 The future of CBDCs 35:40 One World Food Group 37:23 Lazy science 41:32 Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance 44:32 Beef as a health food 46:09 Brooke Miller 47:59 Mike Callicrate 49:47 Processing centers and complacency 52:49 Meat as medicine 56:49 Nashville See open positions at Revero: https://jobs.lever.co/Revero/ Join Carnivore Diet for a free 30 day trial: https://carnivore.diet/join/ Book a Carnivore Coach: https://carnivore.diet/book-a-coach/ Carnivore Shirts: https://merch.carnivore.diet Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://carnivore.diet/subscribe/ . ‪#revero #shawnbaker #Carnivorediet #MeatHeals #HealthCreation   #humanfood #AnimalBased #ZeroCarb #DietCoach  #FatAdapted #Carnivore #sugarfree  ‪

The whole family convened in Austin for ACL, weekend two, and we tell you every story from Neil Frances to P!nk to Joe's Brussels sprouts. Plus, we hit up the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance fundraiser in San Antonio with a tasting menu that curled the toes. Random Question of the Week: What band would get you the most jazzed if they announced they were playing ACL next year? The bands we mentioned from ACL: Habibi - Neil Frances - Tai Verdes - Sloppy Jane - Disko Cowboy - The Front Bottoms - Lil Nas X - The War on Drugs - P!nk Get ACL tickets for 2023! We'll be there! Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA): https://farmandranchfreedom.org/ Links/Recipes: Nasha Indian Fusion, Austin, TX: https://nashaindia.com/ Farm events, Long Lunch Club, our Farm-to-Table Dinners: https://www.aislynncampbell.com/farmday Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourdinnertabletalks Like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ourdinnertabletalks Please subscribe, follow, and rate us on your favorite podcast platform. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/21dg9Bau0AmOkodVS9JZrX Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dinner-table-talks/id1482175104 Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lODk3YTBjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwigqMiHkdv2AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQNQ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dinnertabletalks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dinnertabletalks/support

Staying informed and engaging on issues that affect your farms and food is easier than you think. For the last 50 years the government's policy has been “get big or get out.” Consolidation of our food and agricultural systems with the goal of the cheapest food possible has been driving small farmers out of business for decades. Judith McGeary, founder of Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, shares how she found herself in a position to speak up and advocate for small-scale farmers and ranchers who produce food using sustainable and regenerative methods. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/amostlygreenlife/message

This episode looks at what it might take to make locally grown and processed food the hub of our food system. Why?  For one, Covid-19 has exposed vulnerabilities in our current food system that is dependent on a sprawling, global web of connections on the one hand, and industrial-scale, concentrated agriculture on the other hand. The longer term threat that's been creeping up on us for decades is the loss of soil fertility almost everywhere. A sustainable food system would be built on small, diversified farms close enough to form symbiotic relationships with population centers.I first speak with Thomas Locke of Bois d'Arc Farm. He raises livestock using sustainable practices less than 100 miles from the Dallas Farmer's Market. Thomas shares his story and what it'll take to make DFW a more vibrant local food scene.I then share part of my conversation about urban farming with Owen Lynch, an associate professor in the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU. Owen is helping folks in South Dallas help themselves to develop a systemic solution to systemic problems around food access by developing a network of professionally run urban farms to support a local produce market. The starting point is Restorative Farms.Jeff Bednar started Profound Foods several years ago as a small food hub in Dallas. Through it he sells his own small farm's 150 varieties of edible greens as well products from 50+ local farms to some 6,000 residential subscribers and a range of restaurant chefs. He tells me how he got started and reinforces the need for more food hubs like his.Next, Zach Correa describes for us how lemonGRAFT works. It's another sort of food hub based on software coordination. lemonGRAFT connects produce eaters with growers - backyard warriors and small farmers alike - who live in the same vicinity. He also talks about the compelling benefits of this system.Finally, Judith McGeary, of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, addresses the elephant the room when it comes to the local food movement; farm policy and regulation. After explaining the factors that have constrained local food, Judith suggests ways that citizen eaters like you and me can make a difference.There is local food potential everywhere. We have to want it…To really want to re-engineer the current food system model in favor of locally grown, raised and processed food. My sense is that we will need to live through more shocks to consider demanding change of others and of ourselves. Photo courtesy of Brad Roa at Restorative Farms

Aaron Zober welcomes back Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA) founder and executive Judith McGeary for her third visit to The Appropriate Omnivore. As FARFA supports common sense agricultural policies, Judith weighs in on California's Proposition 12. Prop 12 goes into effect at the beginning of 2022. The initiative will prohibit farm owners and operators from knowingly causing any covered animal to be confined in a cruel manner. Judith is here to answer any questions about how the proposition will affect the livestock industry. How do the big meat producers feel about it? Will it have any effect on small pasture based farms? Will we really be having meat shortages like we're hearing about? Judith McGeary address all of these issues and more.

Features Anne Thornton, Director of Agriculture at Collin College, Judith McGeary of Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, and Joyce Connelley of Marshall Grain Company. Anne Thornton talks about Urban Sustainable Agriculture and the need for efficient food systems in urban communities. Joyce Connelley gives the distinction of heirloom varieties compared to genetically modified crops and hybrids. JudithMcGeary touches on the environmental and health impacts of urban sustainable agriculture. Bernice and the panelists also discuss the possibility of using technology to scale sustainable farming development and use less land. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support

In this episode of the Direct Farm Podcast, we're delighted to host Judith McGeary, the Executive Director of the Farm & Ranch Freedom Alliance. Judith shares how FARFA was founded, their mission to help break existing farming barriers, and highlights current food entrepreneurs in the industry.Show Notes:http://farmandranchfreedom.org/https://www.barn2door.com/resources

The Appropriate Omnivore continues its coverage of access to real food during the COVID-19 pandemic, Aaron turns to the topic of meat shortages. One way meat shortages can be avoided is a bill proposed in Congress a while back called the Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption (PRIME) Act. The PRIME Act allows farms access to custom slaughterhouses, which currently only people such as hunters and homesteaders can legally use. Aaron brings on Judith McGeary, an attorney, activist, and sustainable livestock farmer in Texas. Judith is also founder and director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, which supports common sense agricultural policies such as the PRIME Act. FARFA has been pushing for the PRIME Act since it was first introduced by Congress in 2015. Judith explains the problem with the current system of meat processing plants and how things would be changed by passing the PRIME Act. As a farmer herself, Judith has witnessed the long waits to get her livestock into the processing facilities. Aaron and Judith delve into the general safety concerns with meat processing. With overall concerns of safety during the pandemic, that's another reason to pass the PRIME Act. Aaron also takes some time to ask Judith her thoughts on the Farm System Reform Act, which would ban factory farms.

Judith McGeary, Executive Director at the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, joins us to discuss healing the land (we only have 60 harvests left!) and how you can help by supporting the PRIME Act. @cultivatewellnesspodcast Always brought to you by Peoples Rx, Austin's Favorite Pharmacy - now with new online shopping options!

How is the global pandemic impacting local food systems? We interview @Hallie_Casey of Sustainable Food Center and On To Grow On podcast to find out. We discuss food supply chains, how local farmers’ markets are adapting, and who counts as “essential” workers during a Shelter in Place Order. Then we dig into a more fun topic: soil!  How do you know if your soil is healthy? What's the role of soil in regenerative agriculture? Lastly, we introduce a segment called the “Gardener’s Gauntlet,” in which we invite guests to spill their horticultural passions and peeves.  Mentioned in this episode:  The Essential Worker Travel Form letter from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association, the SFC Farmers’ Markets, the USDA’s National Resources Conservation Service (NCRS), Texas Plant and Soil Lab, and One To Grow On’s series on organic agriculture. This one goes out to John Prine, who is battling the virus.  Drop us a line on our website or email info@horticulturati.com and find us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter!

How is the global pandemic impacting local food systems? We interview @Hallie_Casey of Sustainable Food Center and On To Grow On podcast to find out. We discuss food supply chains, how local farmers’ markets are adapting, and who counts as “essential” workers during a Shelter in Place Order. Then we dig into a more fun topic: soil!  How do you know if your soil is healthy? What's the role of soil in regenerative agriculture? Lastly, we introduce a segment called the “Gardener’s Gauntlet,” in which we invite guests to spill their horticultural passions and peeves.  Mentioned in this episode:  The Essential Worker Travel Form letter from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association, the SFC Farmers’ Markets, the USDA’s National Resources Conservation Service (NCRS), Texas Plant and Soil Lab, and One To Grow On’s series on organic agriculture. This one goes out to John Prine, who is battling the virus.  Drop us a line on our website or email info@horticulturati.com and find us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter!

On this episode of Tractor Time, we’re presenting a double feature on farm activism. We caught up with Sherri Dugger and Judith McGeary at the Acres Eco-Ag Conference in Minneapolis back in December. Both of them were speakers at the multi-day event, which pulls in leaders in sustainable farming from all over North America and beyond. Sherri and Judith  are at the forefront of efforts to empower small farmers and to fight for better food policy. When we spoke with Sherri Dugger she was fresh off a trip to Washington D.C. It was there that Sherri and group of farmers and ranchers voiced their support of the Green New Deal. Sherri worked for years as a journalist, and she’s just as surprised as anyone that she’s evolved into a leading activist for farmers. Just recently, she was named as the executive director of the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project. Before that she was executive director of the Women, Food and Agriculture Network. She is the co-chair of the national Farmers and Ranchers for a Green New Deal coalition, which we talk about in this episode.   Judith McGeary is an attorney and activist. She’s a farmer in Cameron, Texas, and she’s the founder and executive director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance. She’s a passionate advocate for building durable local food systems and a fierce critic of government policies that don’t serve small farmers. She’s a force of nature who uses her expertise in law to empower her fellow farmers and to set lawmakers straight.

Today we talked with Judith McGeary from Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance http://FarmAndRanchFreedom.org  Judith is an attorney, activist, and farmer who is the founder and Executive Director of Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance.  Today on the show we discuss the common sense legislative bills that Judith and her colleagues are trying to encourage legislatures to […]

With 5 weeks to go until the Weston A. Price Foundation's 2012 Wise Traditions conference, The Appropriate Omnivore continues its series of Wise Traditions speakers. The speaker for this episode is Judith McGeary, founder and executive director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance. Judith explains about how her legal and farming background helped her start FARFA, which supports independent farms. She's involved with a variety of areas in real food, including farm bills, the right to purchase raw milk, and getting people to know what's behind GMOS.

Good day and welcome to Tractor Time podcast brought to you by Acres USA. I am your host, Ryan Slabaugh, and we are excited to bring you another episode – this one will be about advocacy, and how to get involved to make real change happen. Our guest today embodies that sentiment, Judith McGeary. Those who attend our conference every year should know her name, as she is a frequent speaker. But why we ask her to speak is most important – that she is the founder and leader of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, and represents about 1,000 ranchers and farmers in Texas who help advocate for government to better represent all of its constituents, not just the huge corporate farming interests. She’s also a rancher herself at the McGeary Family Farm a couple hours outside of Austin, Texas. How she found her way into this role is something we’ll discuss during the podcast, and her story is inspiring. It involves a career change, and some life-changing moments with farmers and politicians.  Not only does Judith lead FARFA, but she serves as the executive director of the Council for Healthy Food Systems and on the board of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. And this year, she’s leading the Raise Your Voice Tour to learn more about what type of advocacy farmers and ranchers need the most. We’ll get into that, and more, in this 40-minute talk. You can learn more about FARFA at farmandranchfreedom.org, and their October conference. You can learn more about the Acres USA conference, where FARFA will be presenting, at www.acresusa.com.

Guest Judith McGeary, sustainable farmer, attorney, and Founder and Director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance based in Cameron, TX, discusses the soil-food-web, protecting soil, conserving water, and the political challenges facing sustainable family farmersFarm and Ranch Freedom Alliance/a>

In America, our federal government and many of our state governments have done everything they can to make it difficult for us to access raw milk, and difficult for farmers and food retailers to sell it. This fact by itself should be enough for us to discover what is so good about this superfood, that the authorities find it worth their time to prevent us from getting it. In fact, government persecution of those buying and selling raw milk is right in line with the global program under Codex Alimentarius, to move the best sources of nutrition out of reach of consumers worldwide. Concurrent with the war against health freedom is the crackdown on small family farms, with regulations favoring big industrial producers and processors, that make survival increasingly difficult for the small, quality conscious family business. This Sunday we feature two heroic attorneys who have chosen to help fight for our freedom instead of go after the better financial compensation they could get in more conventional legal work for huge corporations. Pete Kennedy is counsel and director for Farm To Consumer Legal Defense Fund (www.farmtoconsumer.org). Judith McGeary is a sustainable farmer, as well as founder and executive director of Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (www.farmandranchfreedom.org). These two organizations are working diligently to bring back freedom in food production and consumer choice of what foods to purchase and use. Pete's organization has focused largely on the defense of raw milk production and consumption, right to farm laws, zoning and many other related issues, while Judith's group has been instrumental in creating and supporting legislation to further the cause of freedom for small farm and ranch operations and promoting common sense policies for local, diversified agricultural systems. More info: http://lostartsresearchinstitute.com/2014-12-26-02-43-37/upcoming-show/item/176-show-67-5-8-16-pete-kennedy-and-judith-mcgeary

 Carolyn Biggerstaff is a volunteer chapter leader for the Houston-Galveston chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit charity founded in 1999 to promote education about health and nutrition based on the research of Dr. Weston A. Price. I have been a chapter leader for about three years but have been studying nutrition as it applies to health for over thirty years, buying organic foods and eating whole foods long before it became popular. I am a volunteer educator, not a health professional. I was a senior financial analyst for a NASA contractor before my retirement in 2011 at the end of the Space Shuttle Program. I have attended many conferences and seminars and am always reading and researching about health and nutrition. In addition to membership in the Weston A. Price Foundation, I am a member of the Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, and the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.

Today we talked with Judith McGeary from Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance http://FarmAndRanchFreedom.org  Judith is an attorney, activist, and farmer who is the founder and Executive Director of Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance.  Today on the show we discuss the common sense legislative bills that Judith and her colleagues are trying to encourage legislatures to […]