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It has taken me a lot of chocolate to get through this week, which means I have a lot to recap for you!
First of all, Texas A&M submitted a book, literally a book to the House Ag Committee last week that was entered in to testimony for the hearing on the state of the livestock industry. It literally denounced all the reforms that cattle producers like you and I are working for because after all, sitting behind a desk with their keyboard, they apparently know the woes of you and I’s business better than we do.

BIG Thursday Price Discovery Edition of the Hot Barn Report!
Heard ONLY on American radio stations across the nation and online at hotbarnreport.com!

A quick roundup of this weeks offering at THEE BIGGEST sale barns across the Midwest!
Heard ONLY on American radio stations across the nation and online at hotbarnreport.com!

A quick roundup of this weeks offering at THEE BIGGEST sale barns across the Midwest!
Heard ONLY on American radio stations across the nation and online at hotbarnreport.com!

So I pose the question to NCBA, if during the midst of the market crisis isn’t the time to make changes, then when is? When we are all out of business? Do we make changes after the next generation never has a chance to enter the industry? The conversations with those women in SD are still fresh in my mind and on my heart. This generation is working for a break even right now, in a good year. The next generation doesn’t even have a chance to enter let alone be able to raise a family. Yet, NCBA says just leave the market alone. Let it swallow us all.

The Woudstra Meat Market has history in the area going back to 1926, sourcing local beef for local consumers.The future hopefully holds USDA certification to grow their new meat processing facilities and a farm to table food establishment.

The truth is nothing is turning in the fat cattle market. It is stagnant and it stinks! Can I tell you about completely intentional consequences of doing nothing about this situation, fewer buyers in the barns! Yep, across the corn belt there will be some feed wagons that collect dust, if they don’t get sold on a farm sale this fall. When there is no cash market for independent feeders to sell in to, vertical integration continues to bleed out the very men and women who have no more equity to bleed. And thus, less players in a system trying to force us to vertically integrate.

Karina Jones, Field Director for R-Calf USA joins us each Friday from her ranch in the heart of Nebraska covering what’s new and important to the family farm and ranch.

Big annual BBQ sale and R-CalfUSA rollover auction will go down this Wednesday… just a massive calf and yearling sale featuring a plethora of char cross and limousine cross packages, take a gander at the all-star lineup and buy safely online at cattleusa.com.