Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | gavogel - 7/1/2018 17:42
Its already happening in grains. Try selling wheat or milo in Iowa nobody handles it. The coop and grain company mergers lessen the number of places to sell certain products. I remember dad had used to market fat cattle at the Wichta KS livestock market actuall next door to a packing plant then in early 1970ssold direct to packer in Nebraska and Emporia KS , could get a little better price ,Had 3 buyers come and look finally dwindled to no buyers and we quit feeding cattle by 1990. It can happen in grain also. You see what a mess the cattle market is with a 3 company monolopy.
Nobody handles wheat and milo in Iowa because nobody grows wheat and milo in Iowa. It’s not some conspiracy by the coops.
Nobody buys milo here either, but I grew and sold some. I even know a guy that bought a small slaughterhouse and markets his cattle that way. Not all hope is lost.
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