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Will cattle go the way of hogs?
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<blockquote data-quote="Willow Springs" data-source="post: 674822" data-attributes="member: 9002"><p>You're forgetting that all they have to do is own the plants that slaughter the vast majority of the cattle. If you want your cattle slaughtered in their plant or purchase by feedlots that slaughter in the plant you will use their genetics period. It doesn't matter how many offspring they have or how fast they grow. I worked in a feedmill up here and saw it happen in the hogs. In a matter of about eight years most of the small and medium size family farm operations were pushed out. They (the company that cornered hog processing capacity) started by heavily discounting the hogs that didn't meet their specs. This all happened several years ago but I talked to a couple guys about it. They said that even after they were producing to spec the plant wouldn't pay up because the farmers weren't using the proper genetics, meaning the company genetics. They would have had to change their entire genetic pool so elected to get out of business instead.</p><p></p><p>I comment on another board also caught my eye. With the advent of DNA testing we are only hastening our own demise. Purebred producers are helping these corporations to identify genes that produce physical traits deemed important, providing pedigree info, and paying for the privilege. When all is said and done these companies will own the rights to these tests and possibly have identified most genes for most traits while making a profit from producers. What will they do at that point with the info they have?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willow Springs, post: 674822, member: 9002"] You're forgetting that all they have to do is own the plants that slaughter the vast majority of the cattle. If you want your cattle slaughtered in their plant or purchase by feedlots that slaughter in the plant you will use their genetics period. It doesn't matter how many offspring they have or how fast they grow. I worked in a feedmill up here and saw it happen in the hogs. In a matter of about eight years most of the small and medium size family farm operations were pushed out. They (the company that cornered hog processing capacity) started by heavily discounting the hogs that didn't meet their specs. This all happened several years ago but I talked to a couple guys about it. They said that even after they were producing to spec the plant wouldn't pay up because the farmers weren't using the proper genetics, meaning the company genetics. They would have had to change their entire genetic pool so elected to get out of business instead. I comment on another board also caught my eye. With the advent of DNA testing we are only hastening our own demise. Purebred producers are helping these corporations to identify genes that produce physical traits deemed important, providing pedigree info, and paying for the privilege. When all is said and done these companies will own the rights to these tests and possibly have identified most genes for most traits while making a profit from producers. What will they do at that point with the info they have? [/QUOTE]
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