IARN — Yesterday, we discussed the hearing held in the Senate Ag Committee chambers about the situation with marketing in the cattle industry. The strains on some producers and the grip that the “Big-4” meat packers (Cargill, JBS, National Beef, and Tyson) have on the markets.
Yesterday was also the day that the House Ag Committee took up the discussion in their chambers. It was not only a discussion that was to shed light on what producers are going through with packers, it also shed light on other matters for the industry.
Missouri Farmer Coy Young was first to testify in the chambers yesterday. He said that blood was on the hands of the meat packing industry. He laid the responsibility for the failure of cattle operations and the suicides of producers at the feet of the Big-4 and of Washington.
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