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Small beef processor says the Biden action plan is good for cattle producers

An independent beef processor says he thinks the Biden administration’s recently announced action plan for a fairer, more competitive livestock market is going to shed some light on some unsavory packer practices.

Patrick Robinette owns and operates North Carolina-based Micro-Summit Processors and chairs the US Cattlemen Association’s Independent Beef Processors committee.  “If animals are diverted away from the big four, the majors, then, what’s going to happen is they’re going to have to substitute with more import animals and more import product,” he says. “In return, it is going to expose that side of the business that they’ve been able to hide behind all the loopholes.”

 He tells Brownfield the action plan, which includes increasing competition in the marketplace, the intent to issue new “Product of the USA” labeling rules, and the new joint initiative for reporting concerns about potential violations of the competition laws, among other things, is a win, win for cattle producers and consumers. 

As for the action plan, Robinette says “I love it”.  “But, we also recognize that we are members of the cattlemen’s community,” he says.  “To see my neighbor’s going out of business, it is really hurtful. This (plan) opens up the doors of possibilities, and there’s a lot of options for them that are going to become available.”

Robinette says this is just the beginning, and cattle producers have to continue to push the administration to implement these changes.   

AUDIO: Patrick Robinette, independent processor and chairman of the US Cattlemen’s Association Independent Beef Processors committee

  • If we don’t fight for our cattleman and small beef processors now, we will be ever beholden to the Big 4 and worse yet China. Tucker Carlson on Fox news last night did a bit about how China is buying up our farm ground. Other countries don’t allow China to buy their farm ground and China will not let us buy ground from them, but only we will allow this to happen to us. Shame on us!
    Jerry Hinrikus, Salina, Kansas

  • Everyone who cares about the security of the USA, the safety and the cost of their food, needs to ask their Congressmen and Senators why they personally are not proposing strong language in law to stop the purchasing of US land and businesses by foreign entities?

    Just because it’s already happened and is currently happening, doesn’t mean it’s too late to address the problem!!

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