With less meat packers, life in small town America has changed,less ranchers, less small feedlots and fewer jobs,less small buisnesses....... Small town America is no more,it's dieing from the inside,that's packer monopoly.
Ranchers lose their land, feedlot owners lose their businesses and workers lose their jobs.
Kids move to town and small town America dies a little more.
More beef is imported, and while U.S. cattle herds get smaller, cattle herds in the rest of the world get bigger.
I dont reckon that will change.........thank God I wont live to see the end,paved asphalt, tall buildings and crowds aint no place for a hick like me.
good luck