Ok. This can be great for the average person not in a city.

So now the real question. How do you do this without losing oversite to health and safety. Because I don't think the average person on here understands what inspected facilities have to go through in time, cost, and requirements.

This is a step in the right direction.

Cattle and beef prices have been disconnected for years in favor of the beef producers.

It's not unlike the disconnect between timber and lumber markets. But unlike the beef industry, there aren't many regulations that prevent woodworkers from milling their own wood.

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Now let farmers use their own seeds.

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They can.

They can't steal seeds from technology that others have produced

I'm not a cattle guy, so excuse my ignorance. I can link web pages of several producers in my area who sell straight to consumers today. And I know of small local processers where I can take a steer today and get processed, and take the meat home.

What's the big difference?

EDIT: https://www.panhandlemeatprocessing.com/

Their web site says inspected by the State of Texas, but not USDA

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So much this.

I'm on rancher twitter and I've seen several cost breakdowns that show it's impossible to compete on price with the big packers. I'm in favor of this for sure, but I doubt the market for higher priced meat will be very big.

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So much this.

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I'm not a cattle guy, so excuse my ignorance. I can link web pages of several producers in my area who sell straight to consumers today. And I know of small local processers where I can take a steer today and get processed, and take the meat home.

What's the big difference?

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We've been buying meat this way for years. Not sure how allowing farmers to do the processing themselves is going to provide a radical new service that wasn't already available.

They always could. They just can't feed the to 1600# so you end up with ribeyes the size of pork chops

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I'm not a cattle guy, so excuse my ignorance. I can link web pages of several producers in my area who sell straight to consumers today. And I know of small local processers where I can take a steer today and get processed, and take the meat home.

What's the big difference?

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We've been buying meat this way for years. Not sure how allowing farmers to do the processing themselves is going to provide a radical new service that wasn't already available.

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All I can guess, is that it allows individual ranchers to slaughter their own beef, instead of taking to a central facility, like the one I posted above.

https://www.panhandlemeatprocessing.com/

I can't see how this helps small producers. If I take less than 100 cows a year to market, it's easier to let an existing guy do it, rather than stand up my own facility.

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1) Most of y'all spend way too much time worrying about what the government tells you what you can and cannot do. Govern me harder daddy.....

2) Trump is doing way he always does (sign a pointless EO that accomplishes nothing), this is just red meat for the mouth breathing deadeners going into the election. Pass permanent legislation, not an EO that can be easily overturned.

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Pages of folks saying that this a positive and the impacts it will have through less government regulation, and the response is to mock people who want MORe regulation then summarily dismissing the EO as having no impact with nothing provided to back that up?

Seems like "Trump is doing way (sic) he always does", ending government overreach, broadening freedoms, looking out for everyday Americans and… winning.

Go Trump!

For those with concerns, google Gabe Brown talking about opening up a chicken processing plant and the hoops/hurdles they had to jump through to get to a level they could sell direct-to-public intrastate, and not even interstate commerce. Joel Salatin talks a lot about this due his dislike of the "US-DUH" (USDA) and their overbearing regulations. No one wants to go back to the disgusting meat processing from the book, "The Jungle", but like many areas we have overburdened production through big money backed lobbyists and bureaucracy. Multiple levels of deregulation is needed in this space and across the board in DC.

While I would like to see more to the specifics on this scope change, I'd say Good [start,] Trump.

And why would they? They have the most stable market in the supply chain.

So why is cattle twitter all up in arms right now?

It appears the real victims are the feeders. pic.twitter.com/ZWnPbKhDRu

— Corey Thompson (@Roughneck2real) August 27, 2026

An old rancher once told me that his wife had to remind him that he was in the grass growing business, not the cattle growing business.
Lot's of organizations telling people they can grow a "herd" on 10 acres.
Lot's of appraisal districts also telling how many head they have to run to maintain ag exemption.

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I'm not a cattle guy, so excuse my ignorance. I can link web pages of several producers in my area who sell straight to consumers today. And I know of small local processers where I can take a steer today and get processed, and take the meat home.

What's the big difference?

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We've been buying meat this way for years.

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You have not. They cannot butcher and package meat they raise and directly sell it to you. You typically have to buy 1/4 (or more) live cow and get it processed by a 3rd party butcher.

If a rancher could take that animal to a small local plant, get it processed legal, and sell the packages himself, he could sell a couple steaks or five pounds of burger to whoever walks up.

He could reach a whole lot more people, farmers markets, farm stores, restaurants, even online.

He'd get paid more regular instead of hunting around for somebody willing to buy a quarter-cow. And he could compete a little with the big packers at the retail level instead of only selling the live animal.

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Gotcha. We always buy 1/2 a steer, so the idea of buying a few pounds at a time never really crossed my mind.

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I'm not a cattle guy, so excuse my ignorance. I can link web pages of several producers in my area who sell straight to consumers today. And I know of small local processers where I can take a steer today and get processed, and take the meat home.

What's the big difference?

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We've been buying meat this way for years.

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You have not. They cannot butcher and package meat they raise and directly sell it to you. You typically have to buy 1/4 (or more) live cow and get it processed by a 3rd party butcher.

If a rancher could take that animal to a small local plant, get it processed legal, and sell the packages himself, he could sell a couple steaks or five pounds of burger to whoever walks up.

He could reach a whole lot more people, farmers markets, farm stores, restaurants, even online.

He'd get paid more regular instead of hunting around for somebody willing to buy a quarter-cow. And he could compete a little with the big packers at the retail level instead of only selling the live animal.

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Uhhhhh....

https://www.panhandlemeatprocessing.com/

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At Panhandle Meat Processing, located between Amarillo & Canyon, family owned and operated, we offer custom and state inspected processing for your livestock and game. We process cattle, hogs, lamb, goats, bison, yak, deer, and other game. We also raise and harvest our own livestock, so we deeply understand the investment you make raising your livestock.

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https://ranchersstorefront.com/

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Local Texas Panhandle Meat, Dry Goods & Dairy
Ranchers Storefront is an extension of Panhandle Meat Processing where all of our local 21 Day Dry Aged Beef, pork & lamb is processed. This is our family owned processing facility!

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I'm not a cattle guy, so excuse my ignorance. I can link web pages of several producers in my area who sell straight to consumers today. And I know of small local processers where I can take a steer today and get processed, and take the meat home.

What's the big difference?

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We've been buying meat this way for years.

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You have not. They cannot butcher and package meat they raise and directly sell it to you. You typically have to buy 1/4 (or more) live cow and get it processed by a 3rd party butcher.

If a rancher could take that animal to a small local plant, get it processed legal, and sell the packages himself, he could sell a couple steaks or five pounds of burger to whoever walks up.

He could reach a whole lot more people, farmers markets, farm stores, restaurants, even online.

He'd get paid more regular instead of hunting around for somebody willing to buy a quarter-cow. And he could compete a little with the big packers at the retail level instead of only selling the live animal.

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Gotcha. We always buy 1/2 a steer, so the idea of buying a few pounds at a time never really crossed my mind.

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It's gonna cost more per piece though. Only makes sense. Volume purchasing versus retail.

Maybe.

But if it's directly from producer to consumer, you eliminate distributor costs, transportation, etc.

Curious to see how this plays out after the dust settles.

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So much this.

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Yep, my bad. I was going off way old info.

Love learning new stuff thanks to this thread, though.

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good trump

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Excellent Trump.