{"id":46011,"date":"2025-09-05T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-ranchers-in-montanas-blackfoot-valley-are-challenging-the-status-quo-amid-existential-threats\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:24:38","slug":"how-ranchers-in-montanas-blackfoot-valley-are-challenging-the-status-quo-amid-existential-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-ranchers-in-montanas-blackfoot-valley-are-challenging-the-status-quo-amid-existential-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"How ranchers in Montana&#8217;s Blackfoot Valley are challenging the status quo amid existential threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>In Montana&#8217;s Blackfoot Valley, Cole Mannix and his family are raising 1,200 head of cattle on 50,000 acres.<\/p>\n<p>The Mannix family has been working this land for 143 years, but big food, big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/farmers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">agriculture<\/a> and extreme weather are threatening the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Almost everything about our food system is terminal,&#8221; Mannix said.<\/p>\n<p>Mannix and his family say long-term survival means challenging the existing food system. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People working closest to the land need to be supported. But what we&#8217;ve done is make a food system that marginalizes those producers, squeezes their margins as tight as possible,&#8221; Mannix said.<\/p>\n<p>So rather than shipping all of its cattle to large industrial meatpackers, Mannix Ranch is processing a third of its livestock locally and selling directly to consumers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to build a little model that makes the old one obsolete. Then that model can be replicated across the country,&#8221; Mannix said.<\/p>\n<p>Mannix cofounded Old Salt Co-op, partnering with five ranches who are all committed to sustainable land management. They sell their beef collectively at their local restaurants, butcher shop and online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Old Salt Co-op is a bright spot that does justice to land and to all of the employees along the supply chain and to our investors and to our customers,&#8221; Mannix said.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Schweitzer, president of the Montana Farmers Union, likes what he sees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to give back to where we raise our food locally, package it in our communities to be eaten by our neighbors. That&#8217;s called food security,&#8221; Schweitzer said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if what&#8217;s being built by Mannix is the model for the future, Schweitzer said, &#8220;I think so. It&#8217;s where we should have been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The co-op ranchers say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/video\/how-regenerative-agriculture-can-help-farmers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">regenerative ranching<\/a> and working with soil rather than against it is vital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regenerative ranching is the use of livestock to impact an ecosystem of plants and then to let it rest,&#8221; Mannix said.<\/p>\n<p>Mannix says resting parcels of land for up to two years keeps the soil fertile and resilient, especially in the face of extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of our Old Salt member ranches, in the driest years of its ranch&#8217;s history, has been able to double the grass production. That is a tremendous ecological win,&#8221; Mannix said.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is this the preferred method of the Old Salt ranchers \u2014 it&#8217;s crucial to their survival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to do this. 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