American farmers and ranchers are facing a grave crisis, and it could hurt every family who buys meat at a grocery store, write Sen. Jon Tester and Sen. Chuck Grassley for usatodayopinion
As two farmers from rural America who moonlight as U.S. senators, we know that many folks who live in urban centers may be unfamiliar with how meat goes from farms and ranches in Montana and Iowa to grocery stores in New York or Los Angeles.
Beef begins its journey through the supply chain at one of our nation’s cow-calf operators, who raise cattle for the first nine months of the animal’s life before transferring them to a feeder for fattening. When a cow is ready to harvest, they are taken to a processing facility — or meat packing plant — where they are slaughtered and packaged before the beef is shipped to grocery stores or exported.
while prices ranchers are getting for their cattle have risen less than half that. You don’t need to be an economist to know that when you have only a few corporations determining prices and the price at the farm gate is going down but the price of packaged beef is going up, you’re not dealing with a capitalistic system.Now the pandemic has brought the industry to a crisis point.
This won't solve the problem entirely, but it will help to provide badly needed relief to folks who are being squeezed by imbalanced markets and corporate greed.
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