Hobby farmers aren't the problem. They dont produce enough beef to flood the market. They buy hay and feed, which helps grain and hay suppliers. They buy farm equipment, which keeps farm stores open so we dont have to drive hours to the only farm store left in business. With the stroke of a pen, and it has happened many times, more imports can be brought into the USA to knock our prices down to keep people from getting ahead and becoming more independent. People lose their jobs and dont have money to buy beef, that hurts prices. The dollar getting stronger is hurting our export markets and making the imports cheaper, this is hurting our markets. All of our costs have sky rocketed, this has taken away or eaten into the money to live on. There have been many, many reasons mentioned in the previous replies on this thread for the problems and there have been alot of good comments on what is needed, but I do believe it is totally off base to blame the hobby farmer for our problems. We are supposed to be smarter and better at producing than the hobby farmer. If they are the ones causing our market problems, we need to take a long look at ourselves because we are our own serious problem.