The President-Elect of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says the 2019 fire at Tyson’s Holcomb, Kansas packing facility was a tragedy, but the industry learned from it.

Don Schiefelbein from Minnesota says, “I think we needed to get a wake-up call and figure out how reliant we were on these packers, and how tight packer capacity is.”

Don Schiefelbein

Schiefelbein tells Brownfield more processing opportunities are needed to help bring producers a better share of what consumers are paying for beef.

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