Ranchers who spoke with the DCNF said smaller processors face significant challenges competing with major meatpackers, including economies of scale, federal inspection requirements, labor shortages and distribution costs, raising questions about how much Trump’s proposal could actually change the economics of the cattle industry.
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Politics The Republican Playbook for Saving the American Rancher Tariffs and antitrust are yin and yang. Ranchers need both for a functional market. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images) On Monday, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and the manufacturing policy director Pete Navarro held a joint press conference to provide an update on their antitrust investigation of the Big Four meatpackers, which combined control more than 85 percent of the U.S. beef processing market. This investigation began with President Donald Trump’s November…Open