Just watch

[ALICIA]

grassfarmer: I just can't see that happening. There are just to many middleman and they work to gether at the sale barns. This is were I have witness the price fixing.
They divie the cattle up amonugst them selves so they all make a pit of money and If a new buyer comes in from out of town, they gang up on him, and if he wsnts any cattle then the rest run the price up and soon he just stops coming to that sale barn.
Its like cornering the market. But you have to prove it and someone has to lay a complaint and no one does (don't make waves or you pay the price by not any one buying your cattle for any price.

[cowman]

Grassfarmer: I suspect that is probably the future, but not before there is a fairly large exodus out of the industry? I mean let's face it a lot of these old boys have all they can handle as it is?
It seems to me that there are a lot more real estate signs up this spring and a lot of them are on beef farms? I suspect a lot of people are just about at the end of the road? I suspect if something doesn't happen by this fall we'll see a lot more? A whole lot of this land was bought at very high prices that assumed a certain level of profit, that just isn't there anymore? In fact a whole lot of high priced cows were bought with borrowed money...and they just can't pay for themselves?
Someone is going to get the shaft, whether it is the banks or the feeder/cow associations? Not a very pretty picture is it?