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Message: <blockquote data-quote="yellowbelly" data-source="post: 7871206" data-attributes="member: 42308">I think it's called 'vertical integration'  by those who understand all that fancy jargon.Basically, the big firms at the top, (processors, feed companies, breed companies and the like) call all the shots while the little guys do all the work and take all the risk.The money tends to float up to them at the top while all the sh!t (both physical amd metaphorical) ends up at the bottom.As I said before, the 'pig model' needs to be avoided at all costs by the beef and sheep industry.</blockquote>