The truth is nothing is turning in the fat cattle market. It is stagnant and it stinks! Can I tell you about completely intentional consequences of doing nothing about this situation, fewer buyers in the barns! Yep, across the corn belt there will be some feed wagons that collect dust, if they don’t get sold on a farm sale this fall. When there is no cash market for independent feeders to sell in to, vertical integration continues to bleed out the very men and women who have no more equity to bleed. And thus, less players in a system trying to force us to vertically integrate.