In the last few decades, those entities have merged into megacorp regional and national monopolies. They are effectively fucking the farmer and the consumer.

https://time.com/6171326/meat-beef-industry-congress/

>Over the past three decades, as the largest four beef-packing firms have amassed control of 82% of the U.S. beef market

>Since 1980, an average of nearly 17,000 cattle ranchers have gone out of business each year, the report said.

>Meanwhile, some of the biggest meat-processing companies—Tyson, JBS, Marfrig, and Seaboard—have seen their gross profits increase by more than 120% collectively since before the pandemic, and their net income skyrocket 500%,

This also goes beyond the meat industry of course and extends into everything farming.