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<blockquote data-quote="Arnold Ziffle" data-source="post: 35727" data-attributes="member: 43"><p>Well Mario, I don't think your question was all that difficult to understand and your English is pretty darned good, much better than my Spanish!; and keep in mind that I have virtually no experience in the phase of the cattle/meat business in which you are interested, so my opinions may be virtually without value; but, since you asked for a candid opinion, I'll just say that in my humble opinion you should FORGET ABOUT IT, at least for now. </p><p></p><p>Sorry, but offhand I have no idea what a "HACCP" consultant is. Have you had extensive experience, while working for others, at doing what you propose to now do yourself? I'd bet not --- but maybe that's what you're actually doing now as a consultant ???. And of course you have to realize that there are significant "economy of scale" issues, hedging issues, considerable uncertainty associated the US and foreign markets for beef due to the BSE problem (among other eonomic and political problems), etc., all of which seemingly would be important factors in your proposed business. Do you have a good group of advisors, partners and financial backers that are very well experienced in the cattle industry in general and particularly experienced in the feeding, slaughter, marketing and export phases of the business? Not to sound condescending, but if the answer to most of those questions is no, then what makes you think you can successfully compete against the huge companies that now dominate this particular phase of the cattle business?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arnold Ziffle, post: 35727, member: 43"] Well Mario, I don't think your question was all that difficult to understand and your English is pretty darned good, much better than my Spanish!; and keep in mind that I have virtually no experience in the phase of the cattle/meat business in which you are interested, so my opinions may be virtually without value; but, since you asked for a candid opinion, I'll just say that in my humble opinion you should FORGET ABOUT IT, at least for now. Sorry, but offhand I have no idea what a "HACCP" consultant is. Have you had extensive experience, while working for others, at doing what you propose to now do yourself? I'd bet not --- but maybe that's what you're actually doing now as a consultant ???. And of course you have to realize that there are significant "economy of scale" issues, hedging issues, considerable uncertainty associated the US and foreign markets for beef due to the BSE problem (among other eonomic and political problems), etc., all of which seemingly would be important factors in your proposed business. Do you have a good group of advisors, partners and financial backers that are very well experienced in the cattle industry in general and particularly experienced in the feeding, slaughter, marketing and export phases of the business? Not to sound condescending, but if the answer to most of those questions is no, then what makes you think you can successfully compete against the huge companies that now dominate this particular phase of the cattle business? [/QUOTE]
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