https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPaADXENskc&feature=youtu.be

Wouldn't it be funny if the dogs gathered a half dozen or so of those crazy OZ range cattle for you to play with.

oh they do, I was schooling those cattle not to run.

talk about crazy cattle, what the heck with crazy cattle prices in the US this year, historical unprecedented highs. cows are worth more than new cars over there?

the farmers that could hold on long enough would be rolling in cash right now, the rest I guess went bankrupt.

I will send you a boat load, just send me yr cc details first.

Lots of drought the past couple of yrs in many of the cattle raising States.

The guy I get a side of beef from every yr had to get rid of half his stock.

They are pasture raised and finding hay was a problem. He only does corn for the last few weeks to "put a little marble in the meat" as he says.

"cc"! Not Concealed Carry details I'm guessing. :wink:

what I want to know is how have these crazy record prices affected the retail price across the counter, steak at the price of lobster?


hey if yr carryin, I don't want yr Credit Card details, deals off.

I will try scam someone in Nigeria instead, wait?

we eat lots of chicken here now.

When in trouble don't dial 911, dial 1911! :twisted:

Peter, that's what happens when you start taking the corn you used to feed to the cows and put it in your gasoline (ethanol) instead.

Beef prices are record high, it's true. It's great, a great time to be raising cattle.

The average age of the US farmer is 62. Young folks, many of them, don't want to work that hard, and even if they do, they can't afford to buy the land and machinery and cattle to get started. If you are near retirement and you experience a big drought, or a devastating snow (40K were lost in the October blizzard last year) and your kids aren't going to take over, you might just sell out, quit, grow corn instead. Go to Florida in the winter.

There isn't even a checkoff for "farmer" on tax forms, the occupation isn't even listed.

I think these issues are universal. the idea of the small family farm I think is economically obsolete for a number of reasons due mainly to variable markets and crazy climate patterns + the inputs increasing rapidly while revenue is staying relatively static or declining, do the math.

farmers in general are old, overworked and undereducated for the task, most can't change and the old ways are redundant.

some super intelligent young guys are doing well, they are competent at electrical engineering to have remote powered automatic feed, watering, management technologies, are native to the complex aspects of the internet and world trade commodity shifts. they are genetic engineers, they are innovative businessmen that anticipate market and consumer needs, they are vets, they are human resources experts, they can programme a drone, they soil scientists and hydrology experts, they are mechanical engineers that can design and build complex machinery, they have aircraft and helicopter licences, they are climate and environmental scientists, they will select stock and crop genetics from complex bio-informatics data and do there own gene splicing and embryo transfers, they are adept and political lobbying and are active in the community, multilingual and culturally sensitive ......to name a few skills, and all this in the one person.


they are the new breed of elite young farmers that will feed & clothe the world.

as for the rest.......?