re: White House Advisers Tasked with Finding Way to Lower Soaring Beef Prices

All I know is that there used to always be cows on the levee and there are no longer any cows on the levee.

I would rather pay more for American beef than eat gaucho burgers.

Biotechnology killed the small seed companies and was the root cause of most of the industry consolidation.

Farmers adopted Roundup ready and BT traited seed enmasse because it lowered risk (BT), increased efficiency and lowered costs. One man on a self propelled sprayer could spray and keep clean thousands of acres that before took multiple people on tractors with 8 row cultivators and layby rigs. Spraying went from mixing cocktails of multiple herbicides to just roundup. In addition, BT reduced cotton insecticide use tremendously.

Independent seed companies were forced due to lack of demand for their conventional varieties to do one of two things
1) sell or 2) purchase biotech lines from Monsanto or 3) license the technology and integrate it into their existing lines (expensive). Most chose 2 or 3 at first before deciding the margins were too thin to compete with the giants and closing or selling out.

As far a chemical? For years, in the row crop industry the vast majority of herbicides sold was roundup/glyphosate. A University of Arkansas weed scientist said “The best thing to add to Roundup is more Roundup. Ag chem companies consolidated to survive. If not for Roundup resistant weeds and a surge in fungicide use for plant health, the industry would be even more consolidated today.

A long post to say it sucks, but farmers ultimately did it to themselves due to their desire to increase efficiency and reduce production costs.

The green grifters are trying to force us to stop eating beef. The prices were manipulated down, through calculated non-production. Now, they are pretending that Argentinian beef is horrible, and only fit fo rground meat. Argentina has some of the best beef in existence. It mostly does not have all of the steroids, RNA bullshite, and vaccines. It is pure and tasty.