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Third Black Swan event
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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1685905" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>I don't think it would ever be total importation, but as another person pointed out that's a leverage. The packers want a vertically integrated system like hogs and chickens. I may be wading out into a reach with this comparison but I believe it has some similarities to the tobacco industry. Years ago about all the farms around here raised tobacco. Some folks just a few thousand pounds others 50,000 or more. That was all under the quota system, and sold through auctions. lots of folks leased in more pounds to expand. The various lawsuits were blamed but eventually the quota system ended and the companies started contracting directly with growers over time the companies were mostly operating from global offices and redefined their marketing to focus more on production and sales in other countries. The US growers got fewer and fewer contracts and production is now very rare except on fairly large scale. </p><p>I've often heard the justification for importing beef was that we produced a higher grading product as a whole and that there wasn't enough domestic ground beef. That doesn't make sense it can't both be not enough and a lack of demand for the product. There is a slight of hand going on and it's such that those who could and should ferret it out must have plenty of incentive not to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1685905, member: 24816"] I don’t think it would ever be total importation, but as another person pointed out that’s a leverage. The packers want a vertically integrated system like hogs and chickens. I may be wading out into a reach with this comparison but I believe it has some similarities to the tobacco industry. Years ago about all the farms around here raised tobacco. Some folks just a few thousand pounds others 50,000 or more. That was all under the quota system, and sold through auctions. lots of folks leased in more pounds to expand. The various lawsuits were blamed but eventually the quota system ended and the companies started contracting directly with growers over time the companies were mostly operating from global offices and redefined their marketing to focus more on production and sales in other countries. The US growers got fewer and fewer contracts and production is now very rare except on fairly large scale. I’ve often heard the justification for importing beef was that we produced a higher grading product as a whole and that there wasn’t enough domestic ground beef. That doesn’t make sense it can’t both be not enough and a lack of demand for the product. There is a slight of hand going on and it’s such that those who could and should ferret it out must have plenty of incentive not to. [/QUOTE]
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