Come on folks------ This dead carcass has lots of meat left on it......... and a pile of nonsense quotes to play with.
1. Where can I go to get the neighbors yearling calf grazing my corn processed and fully contained in my freezer? Or my heifer that stays with him for that matter?
2. Does even one of these bills come close to addressing the problem of the title of this article??
3. Rick is right, it takes a lot of political leg work to address an issue( or create one). Remember all those, timely, E coli cases against packers? The campaign of inspections that followed primarily against small public Main Street packers, who are now out of business. All brought to you by irrational press and politicians paying off the anti(whatever) voices claiming to finance their elections.--------------------- that all certainly is a big part of the problem?
4. Where does Cory Booker get his ox gored, being a vegetarian that vows a heart for animal rights? He will be one of the first senators to get T-bones smuggled to his address after it is illegal to have a kill floor in the midwest. Not a dig, it is just the way congressional politics works.
5 KSU voice is off topic....... realizes it and jumps in the Covid-19 fox hole and starts yelling odd statements up into the night air. Will fed cattle numbers go down? And worse is that a generally accepted escape from the question? "and some physical processing capacity may be added.”----- is there a plant in his state that is running a third shift???
Rabobank guy has been predicting falling beef demand for a long time.... so his continued wrong perspective helps save KSU from the fox hole.
6. Then comes the ugly payoff......"alternative marketing arrangements".........Is that a kickback to vocal activists to "stay in line"---- a gift to a few to sell Breeding herd replacements and provide quotes on the idea that helps sooooo few........ soooo little. A better price for your best if you buy into ............... Is that a packer run scam or can we all be best?
7. Justin Topper provided the only quote of any accuracy............ “Every time we gain in efficiency, we lose in competition.” simple as that and congress won't address it.... It might mean rolling back former mistakes in administering regulation and reacting to industry crime on the criminals behalf. Congress will never admit federal mistakes.
Soooo am I back to the depression days when we butcher in the back yard to avoid the federal created mess that is a "Oligopoly"??????
Will congress ever consider that ........... technology destroys competition....... and therefore competitive economies.
