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Why Beef Prices Keep Rising — And Ranchers Aren’t Getting Rich | Monologue Monday
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Beef is more expensive than ever.
So why aren't America's ranchers getting rich?
Because here's the part almost nobody tells you:
The rancher doesn't really set the price. And neither do you.
In today's Monologue Monday, Chad follows the American food system from the meat case backward — through cattle processors, patented seeds, tractor software, poultry contracts, government regulation and the $390 billion Farm Bill.
And the same pattern keeps appearing.
The farmer owns the land.
He owns the equipment.
He owns the debt.
He owns the weather.
He owns the risk.
But somebody else increasingly owns the door.
This episode isn't about hating corporations or asking Washington to set prices.
It's about something much more basic:
Competition.
Why are there so few buyers for American cattle?
Why can a farmer grow patented seed but not necessarily replant it?
Why did farmers have to fight for access to software needed to repair tractors they already bought?
And why does Washington keep spending billions "helping farmers" without creating more places for those farmers to actually sell what they produce?
By the end, Chad gives you three questions you can use far beyond agriculture:
How many doors are there?
Am I paying for work — or permission?
And what's actually on the docket?
Count the doors. Follow the permission. Read the docket.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Why Beef Prices Aren’t Really About Beef
03:41 Why Prices Don’t Actually Come Back Down
09:29 America Is Running Out of Cattle
15:36 Four Companies Control the Way Out
22:12 The Seed Monopoly Nobody Talks About
24:50 When Farmers Don’t Own Their Own Seeds
26:55 You Own the Tractor — Not the Ignition
29:04 The Work vs. Permission Test
29:55 The Farmer Who Owned Everything Except His Business
35:30 How the Poultry “Tournament System” Works
41:08 The $390 Billion Farm Bill Problem
45:42 The One Fix That Actually Matters: Competition
47:57 Count the Doors. Follow the Permission. Read the Docket.
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