Get up, Stand up

Wisconsin farmers are being taken out behind the wood shed. Agribusiness is doing nothing for them and they should stop doing anything for agribusiness.

For example(s):

-Conventional farm milk prices have dropped by nearly 50 percent over the past year. Dean Foods controls 80 percent of the fluid milk market in some states and 40 percent of the market in the U.S. Their net profits more than doubled in the last year.

-When the farm price for beef cattle dropped $0.08 per pound, consumers were paying $0.17 more per pound at the supermarket. Average retail beef processing margins across all companies increased 13 percent over 2008.

Any asswipe economics guy will say that the economies of scale offered by the reach of Dean Foods and agribusiness ilk makes more sense for farmers to suckle to the agribiz tit but as we say "the numbers don't add up".