Patrick Thomas
speaker
216 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Jul
Patrick Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We don't have enough cattle in this country right now.
You have the bull running into the ring, who kind of trots out right away, he's kicking up some of the manure, and sometimes, you know, he runs by and the manure will kind of fly up a little bit, so you got to be careful if you're in the front row.
You have guys been described as vicious because you'll have, you know, sometimes personal vendettas take place if they want to drive the price higher on somebody.
Historically, cattle ranching has been one of the hardest jobs in agriculture.
The profit margins have been, largely for the most of history, pretty lackluster.
There's always boom and bust cycles.
But historically, it's a tough business.
And as Sean told me, it got particularly bad during COVID.
So you had a bottleneck at the meat packing level and you had too much supply and there wasn't anywhere to put them and their animals were almost worthless.
And that made a lot of guys take out debt to stay in business.
It put a lot of ranchers like Sean in pretty dire straits.
As I think Sean put it, the rain started coming again in 2023.
Like, really good.
The profit margin for one animal for a rancher is about $1,000 right now.
In 2020, it was $2.
Yes.
The biggest loser right now is the meatpacker.
But now that the meatpackers are back up to full speed and cattle herds have shrunk... The meatpacker is losing about $300 per animal that goes through their plant.
Well, you have some of these big packers.
I mean, JBS, Cargill, Tyson, they have plants that process 6,000 cattle a day.
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