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$8 on the Receipt… Where Did the Other $5 Go?

Your grandfather sold grain for $8 a bushel. You sell the same grain and get $3 a bushel. Same crop. Same quality. Same work. Different number. That's $5 missing. Per bushel. Every sale. Every season. For decades. Where did that $5 go? Not to inflation. Not to "market forces." Not to improved efficiency. That $5 went somewhere specific. To someone specific. And once it started going there, it never came back. Fellow farmers: you've done the math. You've seen grandfather's old receipts showing what he got paid selling direct. Then you look at what the elevator pays you now. The gap isn't small. It's not 10% or 20%. It's massive. More than half the value gone. Just... gone. But gone where? Who has it now? And why can't you get it back? This video breaks down exactly where that missing money goes. Three places. Three middlemen. Three corporations standing between you and the actual buyer of your crop. Each one taking a cut. Each one justified. Each one permanent. The first takes it for "convenience." The second takes it for "infrastructure." The third takes it for "market access." And together, they take more than half of what your crop is actually worth. Your grandfather sold direct to the person who wanted his grain. No middleman. No cuts. No missing money. He got paid what it was worth. All of it. You sell to an elevator who sells to a processor who sells to an exporter who sells to the end user. Four transactions. Four profit margins. Four cuts. And you only get paid for the first transaction. The smallest one. The rest? Gone. Taken by middlemen you've never met selling to customers you'll never know at prices you'll never see. And you can't go back. Those direct customers disappeared. The elevator is the only option. The middlemen control everything now. The missing $5 is their profit. And it's not coming back. Three reasons farmers lost the other $5. Three changes that seemed logical at the time. Three shifts that made middlemen rich and farmers dependent. What did your grandfather get paid? What do you get now? Calculate the difference. That's the money that disappeared. Share your numbers below—every farmer in America is missing the same money. #FarmPrices #FarmerIncome #DirectSales