Your complaint was being held captive by a single packer. We have similar issues with hogs right now as well. And it is because of COOL. An open border is what kept the packers up here honest. Without that we are at the mercy of a few players.
Don't know what it looks like for cattle but with hogs we have had a pretty healthy herd reduction already here in Canada while the US guys are just starting to cut back a little bit. The price sucks for everyone but the US guys still have lots of options (competition) as to who they can deliver to.
Without a marketing board to get in their way the Aussies are going to do much better. There is competition where there was none before. But there is more than one way (marketing boards) that governments can stifle competition, COOL is definitely another one.
And it's not the multi-nationals who are behind COOL.
Don't know what it looks like for cattle but with hogs we have had a pretty healthy herd reduction already here in Canada while the US guys are just starting to cut back a little bit. The price sucks for everyone but the US guys still have lots of options (competition) as to who they can deliver to.
Without a marketing board to get in their way the Aussies are going to do much better. There is competition where there was none before. But there is more than one way (marketing boards) that governments can stifle competition, COOL is definitely another one.
And it's not the multi-nationals who are behind COOL.
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