conglomerates. the prices are higher. it is in his view and the secretary of agriculture because of corporate greed. corporate greed. let s be clear what s driving up meat prices, the labor shortage, fuel prices. remember how do you get cattle to slaughter? you put them on a large truck and drive them there. look at things like packaging and the covid restrictions in place still at the meat supplying companies. there is only four major ones in the country to be clear. they ve got to make sure their workers are safe. the drought out west actually led to cattle out west being leaner, 15 pounds leaner per cow as the granddaughter of a meat packing gentleman from texas. all of this is just unfortunately the same thing they did with energy companies. deflect, you say it s the greedy energy prices and why gas prices are higher. now they re saying it is the greedy meat producers. dana: what we found out yesterday is that they had a
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yesterday, when this news came out for you, you have about 200 cows, fourth generation. what was your takeaway? it was a breath of fresh air. we liked it in terms of raising our price maybe up to 70 cents a hundred weight. it gives us an opportunity. we re an open market society. we re on scale to lose maybe 600 dairy farms here in wisconsin. now we look at it as an opportunity to export more and raise our private to profitability. and emotions on the other side, your takeaway? for us in canada, being a can n canadian producer, we have a quota system and we go in debt to produce our milk. costs us about $30,000 per cow you have 200 cows. you re expanding? i m expanding 200 cows so it s a $500 million investment for me to produce that milk and now we give away a percentage for free to a society where we