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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1709159" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>I've done backgrounding of stocker calves as well as cow calf, so I understand a little about the next step in the chain, though admittedly no experience in an actual feed lot capacity. When I referred to it as a premium, that is how it was promoted to us cow/calf peons years ago and still is currently. Though the term value added is now widely used. </p><p>Your point about the next guy on the ownership chain not making money and it being a trickle down effect, is exactly my point. In the current situation, it doesn't look to me like the cow/calf producer and the feeders, should have to have a feast or famine relationship. We are both being squeezed as well as the retail stores and consumers by the packers. It's a trickle down and trickle up monopoly that the packers save on one end and mark up on the other. Without the cow calf folks on the bottom of the chain, the next links would have to change their business. There should be more money going to both cow calf and feeders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1709159, member: 24816"] I've done backgrounding of stocker calves as well as cow calf, so I understand a little about the next step in the chain, though admittedly no experience in an actual feed lot capacity. When I referred to it as a premium, that is how it was promoted to us cow/calf peons years ago and still is currently. Though the term value added is now widely used. Your point about the next guy on the ownership chain not making money and it being a trickle down effect, is exactly my point. In the current situation, it doesn't look to me like the cow/calf producer and the feeders, should have to have a feast or famine relationship. We are both being squeezed as well as the retail stores and consumers by the packers. It's a trickle down and trickle up monopoly that the packers save on one end and mark up on the other. Without the cow calf folks on the bottom of the chain, the next links would have to change their business. There should be more money going to both cow calf and feeders. [/QUOTE]
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