These bills that were put forth will help solve that problem. what will they do? basically, i am not for shutting down the big packers. what i am for is getting more transparency is making sure they re following the law. we ve passed the packers and stock yards act in 1921 because of consolidation in the meat industry. today, it s more consolidated than it was in 1921. during the, since the late 70s since i took over a farm my folks and grandparents ran before me, we are seeing consolidation happen much quicker. and it s drying up rural america. these small towns that i knew when i was a kid are just small pieces of that culture. because they ve dried up. my town, 1000 people and 74 when i now has 600. a high school has 160 kids now has 40 kids. the truth is hardware stores no longer exists. we had three grocery stores now
Other? well, yes in a perfect world, or that s the way we expect it to work, and i m sure it does work that way, you know, but again, there are certain regulations, certain reporting practices that the packers have to go through, you know, you start talking you get in the weeds, you talk about the packers and the stock yards act, those types of things, it s over 100 years old. maybe it needs to be looked at and tweaked somewhat, and again, yes, there is competition but at the same time the spread between boxed beef, retail beef and what the producer gets has been widening over the years, and that s something that s been concerning to us. sandra: very interesting. we will stay on the story. it affects almost every american family and what they are trying to put on their dinner table.