workers at an Iowa meatpacking plant

Only four meatpackers control 85% of the market. Breeders like me need a voice. – Idaho Capital Sunshine

Over the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of American cattle farmers have gone out of business, and we are currently losing 40 farms a day by some estimates. In the past two years alone, about 1,700 small feedlots run by independent family farmers have closed due to corporate consolidation. This has led to an …

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