Troy Stowater explains NCBA’s voluntary framework to achieve robust price discovery and how their seventy-five percent approach is adequate enough to make the packers compete.
Terry Fankhauser talks about the need for the industry to put our transgressions aside so we can move forward and solve our own problems. He emphasizes the fact that we need to think of those that will come after us and those that came before us.
Mike Hollenbeck explains the push for a beef checkoff referendum in cow calf country. Not everyone who signs the petition is against the program, they just want the checkoff to be held accountable.
Steve Stratford explains how the beef checkoff worked for the whole industry when it was first implemented, but today producers are seeing very little benefit from the program while packer’s margins have increased to exorbitant amounts.
Dustin Aherin talks about the need for additional packing capacity in the cattle industry. His recent report, “The Case for Capacity,” explains the benefits that come along with adding capacity and the consequences of not doing so.
Harriet Hageman discusses how the cattle industry is facing a monopolistic situation with the four big beef packers. She feels that this fundamental problem must be addressed in order to avoid vertical integration.
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