Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley wants the Senate Agriculture Committee to hold a hearing on concerns about beef packers and cattle pricing. 

“Because these farmers are hurting and we’ve just got to get

it moving,” Grassley says. “This stuff is not the marketplace working.”

Grassley says he is also trying to garner more support for

his bill mandating that 50 percent of fed cattle purchases be done through negotiated

cash trade. But Grassley says one key member of the committee—Chairman Pat

Roberts of Kansas—does not support it.

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