~SH~ said:Hayseed,
I don't really know why I waste my time arguing with you when you don't seem to understand even the most basic concept.
If packers were truly as dishonest as you seem to believe, the plaintiffs in Pickett would have had a better platform to stand on then trying to convince a jury that dropping your price in the cash market to reflect your purchases through other venues would constitute market manipulation. If that verdict had stood, it would have opened the door for lawsuits if a feeder dropped the price he was willing to pay in the cash market due to purchases he/she made through other venues. You can't set a standard of socialized markets for the packing industry and not have it apply to purchases of cattle in general.
Countless investigations were conducted by GIPSA into allegations of market manipulation and price fixing. The vast majority of those investigations revealed nothing.
That doesn't matter to you does it? By Gawd the packers are screwing producers and that's just the way it is because that's what you want to believe.
How pathetic.
~SH~
I should'nt even reply to this piece of malarkey since you posted this regularly for years but I will.
Any and all the of the so called investigations are'nt worthless,the AMI is so permeated into any and all Ag related governmental agencies,makes it a waste of tax payer money,and you know this you are just hoping someone,somewhere will be naive enough to believe it.
good luck