Vowed not to give up pushing the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act to increase cattle-market transparency and protect independent producers from meatpacker concentration.
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Derived from a tracked promise: “Vowed not to give up pushing the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act to increase cattle-market transparency and protect independent …”
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- KMAland (KMA Radio, Iowa)https://www.kmaland.com/news/grassley-continuing-push-for-cattle-price-discovery-and-transparency-act/article_7ab259f0-cd1f-11ef-91de-07e84dbe1e88.html ↗
“I'm not going to give up, because whether cattle feeders are profitable or unprofitable, it's still wrong to have a monopoly of a big-four dominating about 85% of the kill and squeezing out the independent producer.”