Mike Callicrate

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Owner-Operator

Mike Callicrate is the owner Ranch Foods Direct, Callicrate Banders and Callicrate Cattle Company. He is an independent cattle producer, business entrepreneur and political activist, who serves as an outspoken leader in addressing the rural, social and cultural impacts of current economic trends. Since the mid-1990s, Mike has been active in social and political efforts to improve the welfare of family farms and to restore effective publicly regulated markets. He was a founding member of several farm advocacy groups including the Organization for Competitive Markets, R-CALF and the Kansas Cattlemen's Association . He also was a lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against the world's lar