Isms: Views on life rural America

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the scene in Yellowstone, when Beth calls the Four Sixes Ranch in Texas and discovers they sell their own beef.

No middle man.

When she tells her dad, John Dutton, what she’s learned he responds, “No one can figure out the packer.”

Maybe now is the time for cattle producers to figure out the packer - or the problem - in this case and eliminate the middle man.

My husband, after reading this, will more than likely tell me I shouldn’t talk about selling beef or raising cattle. But, with the president’s proposed solution to address record-high prices - import beef...