A Northeast Nebraska Cattle producer says supply chain disruptions are still making it difficult to receive competitive bids and prices for cattle.
Steve Ruskamp, who owns a large feedlot near Howells, says events like COVID-19 and the Holcomb, Kansas fire put more cattle into the supply chain then what processors can handle. “That process is so difficult right now it’s even more difficult than it was last spring right at the beginning of the COVID crisis when labor was such a problem for packing plants,” Ruskamp says.
