This document summarizes the key issues and themes discussed at the 2010 Annual Meeting, including: 1. Large agribusiness interests and corporate power have taken control of the government and prioritize self-interest and profit over national interest and people. 2. Producers must fight back against the abusive market power of large meatpackers and agribusinesses that are reducing farmer incomes while their own costs decrease. 3. Quotes from historical figures emphasize the importance of fighting injustice and corporate tyranny to defend independence and freedom for producers.

1. Annual Meeting 2010
Declaring Independence!
By Mike Callicrate
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2. It was an exciting
experiment, and
for a short time
provided an
opportunity for
freedom and hope
for mankind, until
the government was taken over by
monied interests and corporate power.
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3. Self interest before National interest
Profit before people
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Wall Street over Main Street

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5. The smartest guys in the room!
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Deregulate!Deregulate!Deregulate!

6. people [NCBA Executive Committee]
that are knowledgeable about the issues
facing our industry. The large group of
grassroots producers we are always
hearing about are not informed enough
or knowledgeable enough to
understand these issues.”
- Jon Ferguson, January 31, 2000 - Past KLA President, NCBA Governance
Task Force, NCBA Executive Committee, Checkoff Executive Committee
“It is important the decisions
of the cattle industry be made
by this group of educated
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The smartest “cowboys” in the room?

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Upgrading the round, By Alan Newport
New research in Oklahoma may help upgrade one of the
largest segments of the beef carcass: the round.
Meat scientists have been working with a system that injects
finely ground fat and lean tissue combined with a brine solution
essentially to add marbling to the lean muscles in the round.
The smart “cowboys” manufactured, pretend meat

9. Agribusiness Political Contributions to Signers
Total for 115 Signers D Total R Total
$48,605,199 $20,212,782 $28,392,417
Anti-GIPSA rule letter to Vilsack
$1,970,447 $1,177,644
Collin C. Peterson , D-Minn. Frank D. Lucas, R-Okla.
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10. Data is based on the All Fresh Choice Beef price – USDA – ERS
Producer Share of the Consumer Beef Dollar
Proof of Abusive Market Power
Reducing income at the farm and ranch gate…
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12. While costs to the middlemen have decreased…
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13. $450
$500
$550
$600
$650
$700
WeeklyEarnings
Month
Average Weekly Earnings for Animal
Slaughter Plant Workers.
BLS Data Adjusted for Inflation (in 2009 dollars)
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14. Grocery Manufactures Association
There is money in the food business…
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15. N7100C – Cargill
N199HF – Hormel Foods
N97SJ – J.M. Smucker
N1897S – J.M. Smucker
N135FT – Albertson’s
N46E – Hunt
N604CL – Hershey
N654CM – Crossmark Corp.
N457H – Bank of America
N606RP – Nestle Purina Pet Care Co.
N102CX – Clorox
N545CS – Wells Fargo
N604MU – Dean Mfg. Group
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16. Trucks in St. Francis, KS
Sept. 6, 2009
Old Calnon place, So. of St. Francis
Winter day on Webster St.
Meanwhile, back on the farm…
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17. Photograph from the book, Great Ranches of the West ©2007 Jim Keen, All Rights Reserved
Read a sample chapter and order the book at www.greatranchesofthewest.com – 800-363-5336 17
It’s the national security issue no one is talking about.

18. Poorest counties by per capita income
Statistics derived from U.S. Census Bureau data; U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Business; and DataQuick
Information Systems, a public records database company located in La Jolla, San Diego, CA. – July 2010

19. Ben Franklin 1706-1790
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There seem to be but three ways
for a nation to acquire wealth. The
first is by war, as the Romans did,
in plundering their conquered
neighbors. This is robbery. The
second by commerce, which is generally
cheating. The third by agriculture, the only
honest way, wherein man receives a real
increase of the seed thrown into the ground,
in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the
hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his
innocent life and his virtuous industry.

20. Now you (U.S. cattleman) will know how
Canadians feel with Cargill and IBP/Tyson
in our midst.
Tom C. – Canadian cattleman 20

21. Please, please Mr. Batista, will you
give my starving children something
to eat?
JBS Swift & Co. Chief Executive Officer Wesley Batista
Giving JBS the power to be ruthless…

22. TYSON
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23. “…there is no stopping it
(concentration). This is an
evolution that’s going to take
place in spite of whoever
is in the way.”
Robert Peterson, IBP Chairman and CEO, July 1996
$20 Billion by 2001 article, in Meat and Poultry
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24. “You should be suing
Wal-Mart [instead of
IBP], they are the
problem. They tell us
what they will pay and
we have no choice but
to pay you less.”
- John Tyson comment to Mike Callicrate in
2002
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Average return on equity before tax (ROE)
Retail grocery: ROE = 21% (last 6 years)
Meat packing: ROE = 17% (last 6 years)
All Farming & ranching: ROE = NEGATIVE 0.54%
(last 13 years)
Packers--for those with sales > $500k - Before tax ROE, 2002-2009: 17.38% - source: http://www.bizminer.com/industries/Meat-
packing-plants-2011/
Retail grocery--food marketing institute book - http://www.fmi.org - 2003-2009 average: before tax ROE = 20.75%
Cattle--for the farm typology "cattle" meaning primarily cattle operations in USDA/ERS annual surveys -
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/ARMS/

26. There is an economic term to describe this phenomenon.
It is called…
STEALING
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- John W. Helmuth, Ph.D, Ag Economist. He warned early of the dangers of concentrated
market power by packers and agribusiness. He died in November of 1999.

27. "These guys are nothing but old-
time gangsters, thugs and
thieves. They beat your brains in
with their market power and take
your money."
- Mike Callicrate
http://www.nobull.net/CattlemenLegal/news/2004/1-31-04MikeResponse.htm
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28. Defending the rich and powerful…
“Rhetoric and poverty abound: cheap writers
and expensive sages have always dedicated
themselves to absolving the guilty of all guilt.”
- Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano, P. 148
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29. Andy Gottschalk
Chandler Keys, JBS
Touting for Big Agribusiness - mentally conditioning producers
to take less…and to stay hitched!
Steve Dittmer, Agribusiness
Freedom Foundation
Trent Loos, Loos Tales Land Grant Universities
Troy Marshall,
BEEF Magazine
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Randy Blach, Cattle-Fax

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"Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do
away with the humble of the land, [5] saying,
"When will the new moon be over, So that we
may sell grain, And the Sabbath, that we may
open the wheat market, To make the bushel
smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat
with dishonest scales, [6] So as to buy the
helpless for money And the needy for a pair of
sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the
wheat?""
- Amos 8:4-6 - Days of prophecy 760 to 755 BC

31. The East India Company, created in
December of 1600, with Queen Elizabeth
as CEO, was the world's first
multinational corporation.
In 1776 the East India Company held a
virtual stranglehold on commerce and
politics in North America and used British
troops as its enforcers.
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Corporate rule and tyranny

32. “Farmers need to raise
less corn and more hell.”
Mary Elizabeth Lease 1853-1933
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33. She also said, “Wall Street owns
the country. It is no longer a
government of the people, by the
people and for the people, but a
government of Wall Street, by
Wall Street, and for Wall Street.”
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34. She continues, “Our laws are the
output of a system which clothes
rascals in robes and honesty in rags…
The people are at bay, let the
bloodhounds of money who have
dogged us thus far beware.”
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“In the struggle for justice, the
only reward is the opportunity to
be in the struggle.”
-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Pickett vs. IBP trial, Montgomery, Alabama , January 2004
From left to Right: Van Davis, Leo McDonnell, Sam Britt, Chris Abbott, Pat Goggins, Swede Calnon, Bob Rothwell, Johnny Smith, Herman Schumacher, Mike
Callicrate, Lovel Blain, Stayton Weldon

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When we lose
our markets, we
lose our freedom!

37. A new food system of independent family
farmers and ranchers fairly compensated in an
open and competitive marketplace is our only
hope for saving our rural communities,
improving the national economy, and ensuring
a prosperous future for our children.
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38. …until then, raise Hell!
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