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Always an excuse for packer collusion. The weeks following the paper box fire that shut down the Tyson plant in Kansas several years ago, there were actually more cattle slaughtered than the weeks previous. Why would the four packers that kill nearly 85% of the cattle want to add capacity when...

Polis is a fool. Meanwhile JBS was making $500 a head off your cattle and investing in a new fake meat company in Boulder. WHERE is your Checkoff money? It sure isn’t being used to defend your industry because it prohibited from doing such. Rather NCBA lines their treasury.

MCool for pork went away just as it did in beef. Just ask a pig farmer, but it is unlikely you can find one.

Interesting article in The Cattle Business Weekly a couple of weeks ago entitled Austrlian beef imports continue to depress United States cull cow market. Huge trade deficits with Canada and Mexico. Tell me again how great exports are. Just like saying I made a million dollars last year. It only...

So in other words you are for a government mandated program that violates the constitution. There are people using EID's to better market their cattle. Knock yourselves out. If it were to become a government mandated program that goes away. As much as anything, MCool is about lying to...

Saw an article several weeks ago in The Cattle Business Weekly that quoted Jim Robb who is the senior agricultural economist for the Livestock Marketing Information Center. He stated that Australian imports were the main reason cull cow prices are so depressed. Here I thought imports didn't...

Word is NCBA didn't even support an investigation until threatened by several state organizations. Sound like it might be time for a revolution/succeeding from the union.

Read between the lines. Producer prices tanked while our packer buddies profits doubled. Just the way we like it.

Good for sheep producers. But you are comparing apples to orangutans. The sheep industry is a shadow of what it once was but seems to be making a comeback AND the sheep industry still has mandatory COOL. Plus a study that American consumers will pay more for American lamb. There have been...

The loss of equity that has happened in rural America because of this will be staggering. Packer profits are $500-$600 a head, doubling almost overnight between the drop in fed cattle prices and lying to retailers that there will be some sort of "shortage" making boxed beef prices skyrocket. I...

Corbitt Wall's commentary today on Feeder Flash needs to be listened to by every producer in the cattle industry. There is only one organization that is actually trying to stand up to the disgrace that has become that packing industry.

Since imported beef merely needs to be repackaged to qualify as "Product of USA." What is to keep it from being exported to Japan, merely laundered (as American raised) by packers? Thanks for nothing NCBA.

I always love it when someone pulls out the "feed the world" line. What a load of crap. Harder and harder to even find someone who wants to farm. I know guys that thought they had retired only to have to start farming again. All that it would take is more of the money parasites like Monsatan...

But it is your Checkoff money that is supposed to communicate with the packers customers. The message your Checkoff money if saying is that we think so little of our product we won't even identify what country it is from.

More and more people are range calving in late spring here. They may check them once a day but cows calve on their own for the most part. They aren't chasing calves around trying to put a EID in their ear, in fact I see more and more calves coming through sales with no ear tags at all. I do this...

Got back from the Denver this evening where the Colorado Independent Cattle Growers Association (R-CALF affiliate) spent the day lobbying legislators to support a bill being heard in committee on Friday that prohibits labeling of lab cultured protein (fake meat) as meat. This crap is being...

As Tracy Hunt said in his video, NCBA has already sold out American ranchers by allowing the likes of WWF to set an agenda that makes the (unproven) connection between global warming and your cows.

Superior started a weekly fed cattle video auction several years ago. Weeks go by without a single head selling. Packers need to buy cattle every week, why don't they've use this auction? Two reasons, they don't have to because they already control that market and the last thing in the world...

Good post Traveler. Groups like WWF know they cannot accomplish their agenda through legislation. But they have found willing accomplices who have a similar goals. Which is turning the last independent livestock producers into contract chicken and hog farmers. By controlling the market they can...

Oh, and how much of YOUR Checkoff dollars is NCBA using to promote GRSB?