Callicrate Beef

It's in everyone's interest to save the cowman and the rural areas they steward.

What's Wrong with the Beef you Buy? The beef at big box grocery stores, and restaurants supplied by big food service companies, has little resemblance to the high quality beef of fifty years ago.

If producers expect to live off the land, they must find a place to sell their products, said Teegan Callicrate, Mike’s son who oversees the Callicrate Cattle Co. ranch, feedlot and slaughter operation in Saint Francis, Kansas.

“Ideally, they should be sold locally and go back to people in the communities that they come from,” Teegan Callicrate said. “That’s what I think this design can do for many communities across the world.”

Harvesting Change: Making a Local Meat Market Cattle rancher Mike Callicrate is rethinking the food chain. He embraces a sustainable approach to raising, processing and selling meat directly to consumers.