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I think most of us agree that the cattle industry and agriculture as a whole is in a mess - low returns, high and escalating input costs, foriegn intervention, and government regulations. Multi-national packers are influencing prices and the corn & soybean price spiral is driving feeders to huge losses trickeling down to the producers.
If we simply increase the price to the consumer we will simply sell less product and every segment of the chain must make a profit. As producers we can adjust somewhat with management practices and using different feed sources but these only amount to modest and short term changes to the bottom line. I think that all of us agree that our pocketbook is hurting and we've all complained so what are the answers.
So, my question is: If you were put in charge of correcting and making changes to improve all of this what would be your agenda?
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