Farmers leaving the beef industry is real. We have had no livestock on our farm for the last few years. We are getting older, just as is the average age of all farmers, and it is hard work. While we never had employees, probably most do. And the supply of cheap illegal labor is drying up (thankfully, IMHO). Grain sold as grain, rather than on the hoof as meat, is easier and less labor intensive, and far more attractive to the few in the next generation who can somehow afford to enter the business.
Grain ......sold as grain........rather than on the hoof as meat, is easier and less labor intensive, and
far more attractive to the few in the next generation who can somehow afford to enter the business.
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