Filmed in high definition format, this movie portrays this formerly unrecognized aspect of the beautiful state’s heritage – the real-life cattlemen and cowboys who are still working the land to this day.

Florida Crackers tells the story of this state’s little-known cattle culture, which dates back to 1521, when Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon landed in Florida and introduced the first cattle and horses to North America, thus setting the stage for the first American cowboys and cattle industry to be born.

Florida Crackers was filmed on some of the biggest and oldest ranches in Florida. One, the Adams Ranch of Fort Pierce, famous for creating the Braford cattle breed, received the 1999 Ranch of the Century award from the National Cattleman’s Beef Association.

Working with a small film crew and with minimal impact, with the Crackers telling their own story unscripted and in their own words, this movie creates an intimate style of documentary filming that is going to impact the film industry for years to come.

Filmed on several working ranches in Florida’s pristine cattle country, and including some of Florida’s best Cattlemen, Cowboys and Cowgirls, this one-of-a-kind film provides an exclusive inside view into the Florida Crackers lifestyle while also showcasing Florida’s unique natural environment and wildlife.

A few of the prominent figures featured in the movie are: Mr. Bud Adams, the Carlton Family, “Alligator” Ron Bergeron, Ms. Iris Wall, Mr. Pete Clemons and former State Agriculture Commissioner, Charles Bronson.

For the first time ever, there are more people living in cities than in the country, and this movie has an important message that many people around the World are waiting to hear, about the core values of the Cracker Culture, who are true stewards of not just the land, but of a way of life, where integrity, courage, honesty and respect are normal.

Since the release 2 weeks ago of the 1st limited run of “Florida Crackers” on DVD, people are giving rave reviews! Everybody loves this movie! It is the history of how the cattle industry started in Florida & the day-to-day life of today’s Cattlemen and Cowboys, our Heroes.
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Thanks for such an informative post. I would never have associated Florida with prairies or beef! Cirtus, vegetables – especially tomatos – and berries, sure, but the cattle industry seems more of a central North America thing.

The dip vats were interesting to read about. I know the sheep dips were stopped when it turned out the chemicals in the dip was killing off the people working with it. Was there a similar issue with the dip used for cows?

I’m curious about this screw worm now. Oh! Oh, my. I just made the mistake of looking it up on google images. What horrible damage they did! We had some sort of fly that laid their eggs on our cows, but nothing like this. *shudder* Our cows would get these big bumps in their skin with a hole in the middle, like some sort of giant zit. When we were little, one of my brothers and I used to poke at the bumps and try and look into the holes on the few cows patient enough to put up with us. *L* If there were only a few of them, it was no problem and we’d just let them be. It took quite a lot of them before they became a danger to the cows. Then my dad would buy a particular white powdered poison that he’d sprinkle onto the cows’ backs that would kill off the larva and prevent the flies from laying more eggs. Whatever these things were, the definitely weren’t as bad as these screw worms!

Rexx