Takeaways From ProPublica’s Investigation on Public Lands Grazing — ProPublica

Livestock grazing is allowed across 240 million acres of federal land. Our investigation revealed the subsidies propping up ranching, its impact on the environment and the politics underpinning the system...

https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-public-lands-investigation-takeaways 

 

We Went To Nebraska: The Beef Crisis Will Shock You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1_MI_5FHoc

 

 

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab. — ProPublica

Stan Kroenke doesn't need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20 billion, a fortune that has allowed him to become one of America's largest property owners and afforded him stakes in storied sports franchises, including the Denver Nuggets and England's Arsenal soccer club. 

 Yet Kroenke, whose wife is an heiress to the Walmart fortune, benefits from one of the federal government's bedrock subsidy programs, one that props up ranching in the West...

https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-ranchers-public-lands-trump 

 

The end of a way of life? Ranchers struggle to survive the south-west’s megadrought

But as the drought continues, it may eventually have an impact on the availability of beef in the US...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/02/ranchers-struggle-survive-megadrought-us-south-west