I'm also a beef producer. To go back into my own history, I started off with one animal; it was a 4-H calf. One became two; two became three. The beef industry financed my post-secondary school education. We just kept building on that. We are a family farm. I work with a part-time helper, my father, and we have just grown the business over the years. But we need that scale to survive, under the current system.
You start off small and you build towards that. It is the framework to make the small producer grow into a bigger one that is very important.