Forcing packers to play by the rules will lower beef prices

Forcing packers to play by the rules will lower beef prices

Curbing anti-competitive practices and reinstating mandatory Country of Origin Labeling will do more to lower beef prices than importing more beef from Argentina.

Schweitzer: Forcing Packers To Play By The Rules Will Lower Beef Prices

Curbing anti-competitive practices and reinstating mandatory Country of Origin Labeling will do more to lower beef prices than importing more beef from Argentina. Unfortunately, ranchers have already taken another hit in a volatile market. It takes about the same percentage of your paycheck to buy a pound of beef today as it did 10 years ago. Sure, the price of beef is higher, but so is...

Beef – it’s always on the political menu…and producers always pay the price – Brooks Bulletin

Recent pronouncements by President Trump once again brought beef into the political arena, much to the dismay of most cattle producers in North America. It’s all because, horror upon horror, the price of beef, according to the President, is too high. Well, for folks of modest financial means, that’s true; small roasts are now priced at $60 and up. Even a hamburger, the people’s meat, is significantly higher, and that has real political ramificat…