Dan Osborn

Over 2,500 employees will be affected by this decision and Tyson Foods must ensure employees are offered severance for a layoff occurring just days before Thanksgiving.

Tyson announces plan to close plant in Lexington Tyson Foods announced Friday that it will close its beef plant in Lexington, a move that will put hundreds of people out of jobs in the central Nebraska community.

I was just in Lexington in September. The importance of this plant came up in my conversations with residents many times over. These are hard working people who deserve our support & I will work in the coming weeks to understand how we arrived at this situation.

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Public schools are the bedrock of our communities, especially in rural areas, and I will be a fierce champion and defender for public education in the United States Senate.

Dan Osborn picks up endorsement of Nebraska’s largest teachers union • Nebraska Examiner The endorsement comes months earlier than the last time nonpartisan Dan Osborn ran for Congress against GOP U.S. Sen. Deb Fisher in 2024.

NSEA ENDORSEMENT: Nebraska registered nonpartisan Dan Osborn picked up the early endorsement of the Nebraska State Education Association on Wednesday in his race against GOP U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts.

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Nebraska deserves a Senator who will fight for victims, not protect rich and powerful people who hurt them. Exposing child predators should never be a low priority, and a real leader wouldn't need a pressure campaign to do the right thing.

Two months ago, Pete Ricketts voted AGAINST releasing the Epstein files.

When a Nebraska news station asked Ricketts about the Epstein situation, he said it was a low priority. 👇

Ricketts learned that Nebraskans won't let him protect billionaires over victims. Keep the pressure on everyone. He may still try to wiggle out of this if he can, so don’t let him.

The victims of Jeffrey Epstein deserve justice. The wealthy and powerful people in Epstein's orbit who perpetrated unthinkable crimes against innocent kids deserve to be exposed - no matter how rich they are, no matter how powerful their friends are.

Pete Ricketts folded under pressure.

Only 2 months ago, he voted AGAINST releasing the Epstein files.

Tonight he said he would support their release.

What changed? Public pressure.

President Trump said we should release the Epstein files. I agree!

Only two months ago, Pete Ricketts voted AGAINST releasing the Epstein files. How does he justify this?

Nebraska hemp farmers worry for future with upcoming federal ban on THC products An Omaha lawmaker who attempted to ban many hemp-derived products in Nebraska said a new federal ban may achieve what she wanted.

“The move from Congress, he said, will just make life harder for Nebraskans seeking relief while hurting farmers and small businesses.

‘It’s gonna kill almost all hemp around the country,’ Mayo said. Referring to Sweetwater, he said, ‘It will hit us very hard, if not shut us down.’”

Meatpacking is already one of the most dangerous jobs in America, and consolidation into giant plants makes it worse—workers face higher injury rates, and companies locate plants in rural areas with weak labor protections to suppress wages and avoid unions.

10. Worker safety is compromised in mega-plants.

When processing is concentrated in just a few massive facilities, companies prioritize speed and volume over worker safety.

JBS has pleaded guilty to price-fixing and is tied to massive bribery scandals in Brazil. Yet they received millions in U.S. taxpayer bailout money and continue buying cattle from American ranchers. Our food security is in the hands of foreign criminals.

9. Two BRAZILIAN companies control 40% of America's beef supply (and one is a convicted criminal!).

JBS and Marfrig (which owns National Beef) are foreign corporations that control nearly half of U.S. cattle processing.

8. Small ranchers get the worst deals while corporate mega-feedlots get preferential treatment

Big operations get guaranteed contracts, better financing, & bonus payments. Small ranchers are forced to sell day-to-day on cash markets for less money. The system is rigged against small producers.

After the repeal, American ranchers' share of the grass-fed beef market fell from over 60% to less than 25%. JBS and other foreign corporations filled our grocery stores with cheap foreign beef while LYING to American consumers and stealing sales from American ranchers.

Here's the scam: a cow could be born, raised, and slaughtered in Brazil or Australia, then shipped to the U.S. for nothing more than packaging—and the Big Four could slap a "Product of USA" label on it.

7. They're flooding America with fake "Product of USA" beef.

The Big Four lobbied to repeal Country-of-Origin Labeling in 2015 so they could flood the market with cheap foreign beef...

6. Our food supply is dangerously fragile.

Just 12 mega-plants process nearly half of all beef in America. When COVID hit and plants shut down, the whole system collapsed—ranchers had cattle with nowhere to go and grocery stores had empty shelves.

Research shows that every 1% increase in contract cattle drives cash market prices DOWN 0.06%. These corporations deliberately killing the transparent market to pay ranchers less.

In 1995, 82% of cattle were still sold through these transparent cash markets. Today, only 27% are sold that way. Instead of auctions, beef companies make private arrangements with ranchers through long-term contracts (ranchers always make LESS in these arrangements than they did in cash markets).

5. The transparent auction system that made capitalism work is dead.

For most of the mid-20th century through the 2000s, ranchers sold cattle through open auctions and cash markets where they could see real prices and dozens of buyers competed for their cattle.

4. Small towns across Nebraska have suffered as family ranchers go out of business.

Main streets are emptier, local businesses have closed, schools have shut down. The profits that used to STAY in our towns now get sent to corporate headquarters—or worse, to Brazil.

Today with just 4 companies controlling 85%, these beef behemoths can collude to manipulate prices at both ends. In many parts of Nebraska, ranchers now have only 1 or 2 companies they can sell to. When there's only one buyer, they set the price and you either take it or lose your ranch.

3. The Big 4 have been sued repeatedly for price-fixing (coordinating with each other to suppress cattle prices for ranchers while driving up beef prices for consumers). Before the 1980s, when four companies only controlled 36% of the market, ranchers had DOZENS of buyers competing for their cattle.

2. Between 1980 and 2011, nearly 36,000 small fed-cattle operations went out of business.

Between 2011 and 2023 alone, we lost over 50,000 more. America's ranchers are being systematically eliminated.

1. Ranchers earn less than they used to.

Their share of the beef dollar dropped from 70% in 1970 to 37% today. The money that used to go to family ranchers now goes to corporate executives and foreign shareholders.