Jon Tester said "Yeah. So, look, you have a situation where you have got four companies who control 82 percent of the meat in this country. There is no secret. When you don't have any competition--and that is not competition--that you are not going to get a fair price. And, by the way, these ranchers all have fixed costs. It is not like they can just cut their costs. They have fixed costs. And right now, because of the drought west of the Mississippi, hay prices are at an alltime high. So all this stuff exacerbates the problem. What we need is more competition. We will get more competition. And when we get more competition, it will be fair for everybody, both the producer and the consumer." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordApril 28, 2022

Yeah. So, look, you have a situation where you have got four companies who control 82 percent of the meat in this country. There is no secret. When you don't have any competition--and that is not competition--that you are not going to get a fair price. And, by the way, these ranchers all have fixed costs. It is not like they can just cut their costs. They have fixed costs. And right now, because of the drought west of the Mississippi, hay prices are at an alltime high. So all this stuff exacerbates the problem. What we need is more competition. We will get more competition. And when we get more competition, it will be fair for everybody, both the producer and the consumer.

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Jon Tester

Democratic · Montana

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