04/26/2022
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"It has been informative for me to listen to everybody because I go back to the basic proposition that the debit cards and the credit cards are really essential for commerce."
"Merchants have literally no power individually to be able to negotiate a price."
"I think the exchange went to great lengths to try to change the terms of the cotton contract last year because a lot of people were concerned that the cotton market wasn't working properly."
"And our concern also is with the industry itself, the industry that has become so dominated by just four large packers that now control over 80 percent of all the fed steer and heifer slaughter."