Farmers don't break, but supply chains do.

Tuesdays at the Fairview Sale Barn in Fairview, Ill., mean fat cattle and cull cow sales, and on a normal Tuesday in April, they'd run 300 head through the ring. Normally, they'd have buyers from four plants for slaughter cows and bulls, and three buyers for fat cattle. But nothing is normal these days, and Jake Fidler, the third-generation owner at Fairview, says for the first time ever, the sale barn didn't have a single market buyer for fats. [Extracted from the article]