As a farmer and rancher for many years, I can attest that rising feed prices are not passed on to the packers and ultimately to consumers. One can simply look at the live cattle futures prices to get an idea of the current price trend.
No, rising prices are passed on to consumers by the packers, marketers, distributors and other middlemen in the marketing chain. These price rises are largely the result of rising transportation costs caused by rising fuel prices.
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There are a number of logic issues with this article not least of which is that it takes one position... [MORE]
Joe G
Aug 15, 2007 14:50
I know that everyone is talking about the rising prices of corn and there for many other products that rely... [MORE]
Josh
Aug 11, 2007 10:31
Ethanol has been used for a long time as a fuel for motor vehicles. When VW discontinued the Bug in... [MORE]
Ken Schmidt
Aug 10, 2007 00:21
There's an old saying: "Don't (pee) down my back, and tell me it's raining".
Ethanol production creates a high-protein cattle feed... [MORE]
Curt T.
Aug 9, 2007 08:34
Ethanol producers receive the government subsidies, not the farmers [MORE]
db
Aug 9, 2007 08:12
Ethanol equals higher corn prices --- Higher corn prices equal lower goverment payments--- USA 's food supply is still the... [MORE]
Ted Koehler
Aug 9, 2007 07:49
I find this slice, tough to chew considering the US Dept . of Energy lists only 9 E85 stations in... [MORE]
MP
Aug 9, 2007 07:42
The use of corn in making ethanol should not cause a shortage in cattle feed. Sugar and yeast are added... [MORE]
Earl
Aug 9, 2007 07:00
There is NOT a shortage of Natural Prime Certified Angus Beef in our feedlot. In fact we have a hard... [MORE]
Bill Boston
Aug 9, 2007 10:31
Take a quick look at commodity prices and you'll see that the price of corn is down significantly from last... [MORE]
Cornhusker
Aug 9, 2007 02:02
and the factually starved media feeds the bull to the sheep. . . [MORE]
hoot1zero
Oct 20, 2007 19:25
We should not use the food supply for fuel. This concept just puts a bandaid on the problem and then... [MORE]
Jim Doherty
Aug 9, 2007 00:25
You want energy independence? Start drilling for oil in Alaska and stop using food as fuel. There is tons of... [MORE]
Eric
Aug 9, 2007 08:43
Why don't this nation drill in the 36,000 square mile National Petroleum Reserve created in 1923 by President Harding? Let... [MORE]
Ben Martin
Aug 21, 2007 11:09
Anyone with an eight-inch of fore-brain could have predicted that as more corn was being planted for fuel that less... [MORE]
Eric
Aug 8, 2007 22:19
If only someone could come up with a methane capture device for cattle, then we could mix beans in with... [MORE]
John Bowers
Aug 8, 2007 22:03
Your article seems to be so strange with its assertion that prime beef is so difficult to find. At the... [MORE]
Gene
Aug 8, 2007 20:26
You can buy excellent grass fed beef online at www.tallgrassbeef.com. No ethanol concerns because they eat grass, and are grass... [MORE]
jeff
Aug 8, 2007 20:01
I get tired of reading articles like this where beef marketing folks complain and lay blame upon the growing ethanol... [MORE]
Ken Schmidt
Aug 8, 2007 19:50
Ethanol can be made from cheaper plant entities than corn. Not as efficiently or as easily perhaps, but it would... [MORE]
Tom
Aug 8, 2007 19:04
The effect is massisve, yearly dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico for the selfish benefit of American farms that... [MORE]
William Yurt
Aug 22, 2007 16:17
We have so many other resources to produce so many other clean fuels but they are hardly ever mentioned. Governement... [MORE]
Josh
Aug 8, 2007 17:41
Nowhere does it say that ethanol will solve emissions or any other fuel issue. In fact, it costs the environment... [MORE]
US Beef
Aug 8, 2007 16:33
As you fly across this huge country you see how little of this nation is being utilized. Lots of vacant... [MORE]
Cliff Replogle
Aug 8, 2007 16:16
Why should the public have low cost steak and the government supplment the corn farmers income so they cqn produce... [MORE]
Ted Kuck
Aug 8, 2007 15:22
This is so reminiscent of the "natural gas" craze in the late 80's/early 90's.
Everywhere one looked, manufacturers were rushing... [MORE]