RFK Jr. Urges US Ranchers to Ramp Up Beef Production

‘We want a lot of beef and we want to make it here in America,’ the health secretary tells cattlemen in Nashville.

Cattle are fed in Rio Grande City, Texas, on July 16, 2025. Gabriel V. Cardenas/Reuters

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged American ranchers to boost their beef production while on stage at CattleCon on Feb. 5.

“I’m begging you to increase the size of the herds,” Kennedy said during a discussion with National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President Buck Wehrbein in front of a packed ballroom of cattlemen in Music City Center.