HDRider
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The National Cattleman's Beef Association, NCBA, is the nations largest cattle producer organization. They would be the perfect organization to bring attention to the screwing that the packers are giving everybody. They have lobbyists that could take it to lawmakers and enforcers. They have PR that could bring it to the public. But they don't because they also represent the cartel. What's amazing is that both lawsuits give the NCBA's annual convention, what they call CattleCon, as "opportunities for beef packing defendants to meet and collude." This convention is something that packers attend and where they are free to discuss just how exactly they can put the screws to the other attendees. I guess this gives a whole new meaning to the term CattleCon.
The real cattle con is the fact that cattle producers actually have to pay to promote beef packer products and also, help pay for these, "opportunities to collude," through the beef checkoff. The beef checkoff is a program where every time cattle sell, one dollar per head is taken out of the check. That money is supposed to be used to promote beef, which would be alright except now beef prices seem to have nothing to do with the price of cattle. The NCBA gets the majority of this checkoff money, and meetings of the Beef Checkoff program are also listed as an, opportunity to collude, because they are also attended by the beef packing cartel. So while the beef packing cartel is screwing everybody, the ones who are definitely getting the worst of it are the cattle producers. Ranchers are quite literally paying to give the cartel "opportunities to collude."
https://www.lonesomelands.com/new-blog/2020/1/15/the-bedfellows-how-the-beef-packing-cartel-is-screwing-everybody
The real cattle con is the fact that cattle producers actually have to pay to promote beef packer products and also, help pay for these, "opportunities to collude," through the beef checkoff. The beef checkoff is a program where every time cattle sell, one dollar per head is taken out of the check. That money is supposed to be used to promote beef, which would be alright except now beef prices seem to have nothing to do with the price of cattle. The NCBA gets the majority of this checkoff money, and meetings of the Beef Checkoff program are also listed as an, opportunity to collude, because they are also attended by the beef packing cartel. So while the beef packing cartel is screwing everybody, the ones who are definitely getting the worst of it are the cattle producers. Ranchers are quite literally paying to give the cartel "opportunities to collude."
https://www.lonesomelands.com/new-blog/2020/1/15/the-bedfellows-how-the-beef-packing-cartel-is-screwing-everybody
