After reading a headline in a Drovers Email this morning.  " CME Live Cattle Spiral Downward as Supply worries Persist"   it made me think how our markets are like analyzing a crash after the fact.  Various things we as producers can do to alter the results.  While we each have the same problems, some operations/planes will crash different with different results. This same line of thinking can be used in a larger scale in  thinking about general agricultural financial crisis, also being discussed currently, not just beef, it kinda opened my eyes to how complicated all this stuff is and how we manage each operation making choices that effect the outcome from the crash in different ways. 

Link to Airplane Crash article http://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/airplane/landing-accidents-and-runway.html