Mandated cash trade isn’t the answer to cattle market woes – Brownfield Ag News

the cutout value, and you put those in a proper ratio, the packer has to keep that ratio to the feedlot operators, Equity or advantage.

“There is some equitable ratio between cutout value in live price that the packer cannot go above that ratio,” he says.

And, Walker says it wouldn’t take away the packers’ ability to utilize AMAs or mandate negotiated cash trade volume.

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