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<blockquote data-quote="Tim/South" data-source="post: 1098902" data-attributes="member: 17986"><p>Prices are the best I have ever seen. I added 47 additional bred cows last February and am glad we did. </p><p>The meat packers are concerned. They have a work week dictated by labor agreements so they must have numbers to slaughter. Stores are balking at what the packers are asking. That caused boxed prices to spiral downward last week. If the packing companies can not make enough profit they close plants. Retail markets are all reporting reduced beef product purchases. Hopefully sales will pick up when the weather improved.</p><p>National Beef Company just announced they will close their processing facility in Brawley, California. 1,300 employees will be out of work. This plant mostly processed holstein steers from the large dairy numbers in California. Closing a plant that has a daily capacity of 1,900 per day will have an effect. Remember that Cargill closed the Plainview, Texas plant last year, with a 4500 per day capacity.</p><p>There has to be a demand for the shortage of beef.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tim/South, post: 1098902, member: 17986"] Prices are the best I have ever seen. I added 47 additional bred cows last February and am glad we did. The meat packers are concerned. They have a work week dictated by labor agreements so they must have numbers to slaughter. Stores are balking at what the packers are asking. That caused boxed prices to spiral downward last week. If the packing companies can not make enough profit they close plants. Retail markets are all reporting reduced beef product purchases. Hopefully sales will pick up when the weather improved. National Beef Company just announced they will close their processing facility in Brawley, California. 1,300 employees will be out of work. This plant mostly processed holstein steers from the large dairy numbers in California. Closing a plant that has a daily capacity of 1,900 per day will have an effect. Remember that Cargill closed the Plainview, Texas plant last year, with a 4500 per day capacity. There has to be a demand for the shortage of beef. [/QUOTE]
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