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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1629968" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>SmokinM, I agree with you about that direct marketing isn't for everyone and that in that kind of market quality is paramount. </p><p>I disagree though about the current system, working and having a place for everyone. This crisis has proven that the current system does not work. The only few that it works for are the monopolies themselves. If they continue to have their way the only place most American cattle farmers and ranchers are going to have is that of consumers just like the rest of the public, and they will be importing foreign beef and selling it at the same or greater profit levels. It is going to take more than mere tweaking to stop and correct this trend. This system has not been working for the American livestock producers, and this crisis has shown that it does not work for American consumers either. If something isn't changed our American producers are going to extinct then we as a nation will be at the mercy of multinational conglomerates, if a national security crisis were to arise then the reality could be very bad. We need to break up these monopolies into smaller regional facilities and have feedlots in more areas as well so that the supply chain is regional and competed for. There should still be stockyards order buyers and much of the existing system through that point could be basically the same. There used to not be any commercial vegetable growers in our area now a farmer right up the road from me grows and sells to a large grocery chain. The same principles should apply to meat as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1629968, member: 24816"] SmokinM, I agree with you about that direct marketing isn’t for everyone and that in that kind of market quality is paramount. I disagree though about the current system, working and having a place for everyone. This crisis has proven that the current system does not work. The only few that it works for are the monopolies themselves. If they continue to have their way the only place most American cattle farmers and ranchers are going to have is that of consumers just like the rest of the public, and they will be importing foreign beef and selling it at the same or greater profit levels. It is going to take more than mere tweaking to stop and correct this trend. This system has not been working for the American livestock producers, and this crisis has shown that it does not work for American consumers either. If something isn’t changed our American producers are going to extinct then we as a nation will be at the mercy of multinational conglomerates, if a national security crisis were to arise then the reality could be very bad. We need to break up these monopolies into smaller regional facilities and have feedlots in more areas as well so that the supply chain is regional and competed for. There should still be stockyards order buyers and much of the existing system through that point could be basically the same. There used to not be any commercial vegetable growers in our area now a farmer right up the road from me grows and sells to a large grocery chain. The same principles should apply to meat as well. [/QUOTE]
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