Competition is the very basis of what the livestock industry is built on, and it is what we’re going to have to have going forward if we want to stay valid, Justin Tupper, president of U.S. Cattlemen’s Association (USCA), stated during the USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum session “Contracting and Concentration in Livestock Markets.”
“Competition is at the very center of everything that happens in the cattle arena, from top to bottom,” Tupper said. “A free market system only works with true and transparent price discovery and competition at all levels.”
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