How ranchers in Montana's Blackfoot Valley are challenging the status quo amid existential threats

In Montana's Blackfoot Valley, Cole Mannix and his family are raising 1,200 head of cattle on 50,000 acres.

The Mannix family has been working this land for 143 years, but big food, big agriculture and extreme weather are threatening the next generation.

"Almost everything about our food system is terminal," Mannix said.

Mannix and his family say long-term survival means challenging the existing food system.

"People working closest to the land need to be supported. But what we've done is make a food system that marginalizes those producers, squeezes their margins as tight as possible," Mannix said.

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.

"We're going to