Do farmers get the pay they deserve?

Answer 1

No. They get paid less than the average office worker for all that food that they produce. The markets have everything to do with how a farmer gets paid at the end of every season, and usually what they get paid for the grain they produce isn't enough to cover the costs for fuel and fertilizer for their crops.

In the production of beef cattle, beef producers don't get even close the pay they deserve when selling their cattle. The prices have been so low the past ten years that most, without an outside job, are always in debt. The funny thing is is that the retail price for a slab of beef never changes, it always remains the same no matter how low or how high cattle prices are for that week. The meat packers are actually the ones that are getting the most money from cattle, but not the cattle producers who the meat packers rely on to give them a constant supply of cattle to slaughter.