Today farmers and ranchers face unique challenges. Ben Peterson of E.L. Peterson Ranch explains those challenges.
“It’s a huge problem with the fact that we are dependent on the futures market that just tells us what our beef is worth. We don’t get a choice to decide how much our cost are. We are in between a rock and a hard spot, where the rock and the hard spot are both large monopolies that control the industry, and we don’t get a choice.”– Ben Peterson
The new meat processing co-op that has opened in Havre is working to empower ranchers by allowing them to skip the monopolized meat processing system and bring their products direct to consumers.
