Go ahead and post my whole paragraph or two instead of a little snippet.  I could take little snippets of your posts and turn them into some arcane argument, but I don't have the need to flatter myself as you obviously do. 

Agman, if you keep switching between what the cattleman gets and the retail prices, we will never see eye to eye on this forum.  There are so many different ways of looking at the data that it is not feasable on this type of forum.  I absolutely do not want to get into a "I said this" kind of argument on this forum.  If I were at your office looking at the data it would be different.  You are going into a quagmire on that one and I don't really want to go there with you.  You are only trying to confuse those who don't know this data and its intricacies to trust you with an analysis.  I don't.  You have had so many things wrong it is pathetic.

You have a hard enough time understanding(or willingness to admit) that cattle prices for ranchers is different than the retail.  The packers are in the middle and that makes all the difference.

Here is some ERS data on price spreads:http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodPriceSpreads/meatpricespreads/beef.htm

If I could post tabular data on this forum I would be glad to argue your little arguments, though it might be hard for anyone else to follow us.  With selective time periods you can make almost any argument you want.