What's the disconnect in my understanding here? Meat is ever more expensive on the shelf today, compared to 10 years ago, yet the ranchers are getting less for their cattle. How in the hek does this make sense? Inflation part of the equation obviously but at least the rancher's share should have gone up by inflation rate, yet their share is way down while meat prices probably tripled compared to 10 years ago. If competition from big cucked industry is driving cattle prices down then we should see it in the stores with the prices also having come down.. or maybe the big industry was able to keep the prices of beef at an artificially low price we see today? As in.. if it were only the farmers, without the big industry ranchers, would beef have been much more expensive than they were these last 30 years or so?
between ranchers there are two industries, The meat processors and the trucking handling transportation.
The meat processors are the part of the industry which has become controlled by only a few companies. So they have great power in setting the price farmers can get for cow meat, and the price retailers buy it.
Also transportation of the entire thing is done by trucks (I suspect) which has all kinds of problems right now. And post slaughter of the cows, refrigeration trucks are needed, not just any kind of truck. Which i'm sure complicates things further.
Ah, they're building a beef processing facility.
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