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jc1206
Posted 5/26/2021 07:51 (#9025297 - in reply to #9025139)
Subject: RE: RICO


northern IL
Simocattle - 5/26/2021 06:32

So what you are saying is if the cattle industry loses 70 to 80 percent of its producers some day we will have record highs in cattle. I am not ok with that.


I am not ok with this either. The cycle to produce beef takes years to recover from large losses of mother cows , and once these cows go to market it takes years to build back up numbers. The cow calf producer is not an in out type business also because it takes too much time to prime the money income pump .

There talking on the news that theres a shortage of chicken , but the meat chicken numbers cycle can change in 8 weeks time .

Hogs are at record highs but we can produce more hogs in short time to out produce the demand .

The grain market just bought a bunch of acres with $7 cash corn , and $16 cash beans . Theres many fields that now are only 1 row from the center of the ditch , and 28" from the neighbors crop where the fence line was . Along with the guys that said they will not chop corn silage this fall because they can sell cash corn, or the guys counting kernels to feed there animals when it went to $7.
These acres, and less feed use will change the grain price in short order also.

The beef cycle is such a long cycle for them to short change the money to the producers for it to take years to recover after a large scale loses of producers.

With all that said ... the avg age of the producer is climbing with no retirement pension to fall back on other than selling the herd.
This is stuff we all know , but when will the middle man figure it out?

When theres no animals lined up at the gates of the only 4 packers left ?
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