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Cattle cross the road in Beaver Creek Park Sept. 4. Local agricultural producers joined a nationwide Twitter campaign to ask the federal government to investigate if meat packers are unfairly controlling the market on beef.
Local stockgrowers joined a nationwide Twitter campaign Sept. 23 through Sept. 27 , #FairCattleMarkets, to get the attention of President Donald Trump.
"Overall, I think it has been a real success," said North Central Montana Stockgrowers Association President Dana Darlington, a fourth-generation rancher out of Big Sandy. "I don't know what benefits we are going to see out of it yet, but it definitely was a nationwide campaign to call attention to what we feel is an unjust market share."
Billings rancher, auctioneer and Western Ag Reporter Publisher Joe Goggins started the #FairCattleMa...
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