[Beave Meister]

Yes, I love it when someone fights back. Hope the government doesn't over regulate him to death so the Big 4 can take over his business...

[headsonpikes]

“Hope the government doesn’t over regulate him to death so the Big 4 can take over his business...”

You forgot the /s tag.

[Fungi]

Do it. An easy way is to go online and offer a half carcass, trimmed and packaged into freezer ready portions. Don't forget the hangar steak! Order it and make sure you have a freezer to hold the meat. My family did that for years, it was only after we found out the butcher had stolen the “butcher's steak.”

[conservativeimage]

Don’t burn your herd. Sell directly to your community. I’ll learn to skin and quarter and smoke and dry my own meet.

[Parmy]

The larger plants aren't at capacity, not because there aren't enough cattle, but not enough workers. So the article said. I worked in a meat packing plant, here in WA state, from 1969 to 1973. I started pulling bone tubs to the rendering plant. Then to the breaking crew. Then with the govt. greater. Then to journeyman meat cutter.

It is hard work. Not many retire from that job.

I quit before I became totally crippled. Wrist and shoulders snapping. Siatic nerve problems, still today, plus back problems.

Top wage during that time was $5,25 per hour.

[Dapper 26]

I wish them luck. Their major concern is government overregulation and union protection for the larger plants. It is a tough business, hard work but very satisfying in providing the community with good and affordable food.

[LegendHasIt]

Gee, someone finally figured this out? Good for Them. Now if they will just do it, instead of talking about it. And raising $300 million to do it???

How about raising $300,000 to rent a building with a big freezer, buy some knives, saws and grinders, hire a few people, and go for local trade rather than doing something regional - national. and do it a few hundred times in different localities? I’d be glad to invest a few thousand bucks into a local co-op among my rancher neighbors, and get paid back in product over a few years.

[PGR88]

America’s highly-centralized, bloated-government, regulatory-enforced, crony-capitalist supply chains are breaking.

Let’s hope a thousand ranchers start a thousand new processing plants to all serve their local areas.

[Dr. Sivana]

If you are in a big ranching state with decent population, (Texas, California, Arizona) could you get around the USDA requirement by selling in-state only?