Ag consolidation meeting draws concerned farmers

A Kirkwood Community College auditorium was packed today for a farm forum onagri-business consolidation. As Von Kettleson reports, the U-S Departmentof Agriculture official who oversees monopoly investigations was on hand, aswere unhappy farmers. Farmer Dick Socoloski of Holstein attended the conference.Socoloski says farmers are losing their livelihoods.State Representative Kitty Rehberg (ray-berg), a farmer from Rowley, askedfor an investigation of the Smithfield Foods buy-out of Murphy Family Farms.