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Why Did Tyson Foods Offer to Pay More for Cattle They had Already Purchased?

On Friday March 20, after the markets had closed on another piss poor week in the cattle market, word started to spread that Tyson Foods cattle buyers were calling up cattlemen that they had already bought cattle from, and told them that they were going to give them $5 more per hundred weight for the cattle they had already bought. This had all of cow country scratching their heads, why?

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The Bedfellows, how the beef packing cartel is screwing everybody

Yeah, I know, everybody thinks they are getting screwed all the time. My great grandpa had a saying that has been passed down, "Farmers buy retail, sell wholesale, and pay the freight both ways." As I've gotten older, more involved, and learned a little more about how the world works, how the industry works, I’ve realized something... Grandpa was right, but in this case it's not just farmers.

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