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| I agree with Red Paint and Dairyman78. I'm a ex-tobacco grower. It was like the tobacco growers were selling their soul to get a extra dime or so per pound on a company contract. Now days in my area of east Tennessee, burley tobacco is almost a thing of the past. Auctions are gone, contracts are hard to get and not much money made when you do have one. Some of those ex-tobacco growers and others are now doing close to the same thing with cattle buying stations and packers. The small to average farmer/cattleman buys supplies/equipment at retail prices and sells their product at wholesale prices. The large conglomerate company farm buys supplies/equipment at wholesale prices and sells their product at retail prices. Competing with that is tough for the long term. There is currently a lot of consolidations going on with seed/chemical companies, equipment companies/dealers and meat packers etc. A few conglomerates have pretty much got the retail market cornered on consumer goods now.
That's my rant for the night.
Edited by Tennessee Cattleman 11/29/2016 21:04
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