Posted 8/31/2018 22:21 (#6962593 - in reply to #6962519) Subject: RE: Somebody is making money in hogs--but not the producer
Amherst WI
I just got done reading a Joel Salitan book and when you market directly you fix this problem in short order. According to him farm profits went down as off farm processing became more popular.
To some degree we are all slaves to the system, margins get tighter so we get bigger and the cycle continues downhill.