I haven't seen the Hatch ad, but I'm assuming it was filmed in one of two southern Minnesota packinghouse towns, either Austin (DFL stronghold in southeastern Minnesota) or Worthington (center-right town in southwestern Minnesota), where the meatpackers are the largest employers in town and are paying 35-40 cents on the dollar to the inflation-adjusted wage levels compared to 1985. ❋ MN Politics Guru (2006)
In 1946, he sold the first of his skinners to meatpackers in the Chicago stockyards. ❋ Stephen Miller (2011)
Dopp acknowledged that the competitive cash market is being replaced with contracting arrangements that let meatpackers buy cattle without bidding on an open market. ❋ AP (2010)
Neill said he discussed the way meatpackers appear to divvy up feedlots when they bid for cattle and other tactics that appear aimed at keeping prices low, such as buying cattle late at night, when markets are closed and feedlot owners have to guess what the going price of beef might be. ❋ AP (2010)
Sears still believes meatpackers work together to keep prices in check. ❋ AP (2010)
Sears and other cattle producers suspect meatpackers are quietly cooperating to keep prices low in an area that stretches from Kansas to Nebraska and South Dakota, the region that dominates U.S. cattle production. ❋ AP (2010)
But there is still competition between meatpackers, he said, because feedlots are free to sell to anyone. ❋ AP (2010)
Barbara Kopple's 1976 film, Harlan County, USA, about a coal miner's strike in Eastern Kentucky and her 1985 film American dream about the meatpackers strike against Hormel in Austin, Minnesota document just two of many instances of union-busting that has brought the percent of unionized workers in the private sector down to its current 8 percent. ❋ Gary Anderson (2011)
Once meatpackers work through that rise in supplies, analysts forecast that the number of cattle moving through feedlots will decline. ❋ Marshall Eckblad (2011)
To restore competitiveness, the Obama administration is proposing the most sweeping antitrust rules for meatpackers since the Great Depression. ❋ AP (2010)
The AP's reporting found no evidence that meatpackers had engaged in the kind of flagrant backroom deals that are illegal under antitrust law. ❋ AP (2010)
In 2004, Sears sold most of his cattle to four big meatpackers: Cargill, Nebraska Beef in Omaha, Tyson Foods and JBS SA, the world's biggest meat company. ❋ AP (2010)
Such examples have prompted the Agriculture and Justice departments to assign antitrust regulators to investigate the way meatpackers buy cattle. ❋ AP (2010)
A spokesman for the industry insisted meatpackers are not engaged in any conspiracy to stifle the cash market or keep prices low. ❋ AP (2010)
Trade groups for producers and meatpackers showed initial support for the new program. ❋ Marshall Eckblad (2011)
Producers almost never criticize the industry's leading meatpackers because the companies are valued customers. ❋ AP (2010)
The trend will speed up if meatpackers are able to depress prices on the cash market, Bullard said. ❋ AP (2010)
Hopefully, the voters in his district will send the Cao off to the meatpackers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Analysts said buying by meatpackers, the middlemen who slaughter the animals and then sell carcasses and cuts, is picking up ahead of the holiday season amid worries that the number of cattle available will dwindle in coming months as a result of this summer's drought. ❋ Marshall Eckblad (2011)
In 1980, the top four meatpackers controlled about 36 percent of the cattle market. ❋ AP (2010)
[Hey], [that dude] [must be] a meatpacker ❋ Anthony Fike (2008)
[Sadly], the meatpacking [district] is no longer the [fudgepacking] district. ❋ Bong Recreation Area (2019)
[Frank]: "Have you seen Josh lately?"
Ryan: "[Nah man], he's been in the meatpacking district all night"
Frank: "Damn, he [packs] meat so good!" ❋ Raystik82 (2015)
I was laying on the couch studying for my econ test when Matt slammed his head right into my nutsack screaming "Christ on a side Car, Sam! Why are you violating my forehead with your balls, you ass [wodge]?" "WTF?!? You're the one giving me [the Michigan] [Meatpacker], you douche bag!" ❋ Mamamia121 (2010)
