UNLESS you have 100% sign up, I see the big 4 out bidding on live &  undercutting you on markets.  They  have DEEP POCKETS like a old Rancher with 1000s of cows has against the Neighbor Kid with 100 head who wants the lease on the pasture.
After my experience with the Western Sugar Coop & seeing how they now OWN the shareholders their is NO DAMM WAY I WOULD EVER join a COOP again.