looks like beef prices are coming down...

But, it's amazing to note the contrast between the images that the founders wanted, and what became of those companies....

Full article at Scrap Metal Forum: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/off-t...#ixzz3rYC5Khyq

This could apply to many businesses. Walmart is a perfect example. Anyhooo..

I <3 farmers! Without them...I get no bacon, corn or beef!


Hug a farmer today...well maybe from a distance. Either way I'm sure they'd be thankful!

Sirscrapalot - Having a cold one or ten for farmers everywhere, just doing my part.

Learned this morning Bell Gardens is no longer open.

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Hypoman- Deer, and I guess antelope as well, will do the same thing in our state, jump up on round bale stacks or linear lines (no one wraps bound bales here with plastic like I've seen done out East), crap and pee on them and then the cattle won't eat the hay. The GF&P recommends "hay yard fencing" tactics and people can get put on deer "depredation" lists during the winter where people can shoot non-anterless coming into hay yards. Land owners can blast deer and antelope messing their hay supplies as well but can't use the animals in any way except to pull them off so they don't rot on the hay piles. The state agency likes the better PR of someone getting to use the meat...

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That's nuts. I can't imagine the deer around here even bothering with hay. They have too many other options. That'd be a sight to see a deer on a haystack lol, thanks for that imagery. Interesting fact, cows WILL eat hay where horses have defecated....not the feces itself but around it. Weird...

So if these farmers on that list shoot that deer or antelope, they aren't "supposed" to eat it? That doesn't make any sense at all, huge waste.

No, the list is for hunters will want meat and want to help out thinning out the Problem" deer. But some landowners don't want to deal with hunters even if they are helping out a problem for the landowner. So, landowners either don't have to wait on hunters or don't have to deal with hunters at all and can blaze away. But they can't use the animals. Two different solutions to the problem.

Most SD landowners are fairly sociable people and the number who wouldn't let hunters in to help diminish the problem are probably few. But I'm sure that there are those who rather shoot now and think about letting in others later. A sad little story about wildlife conservation in South Dakota. We used to have what was then thought as a sub-species of the Rocky Mountain sheep in the western part of the state, like around the Badlands and other rougher ground. It was called the Audubon sheep although modern evidence probably points to it just being a Rocky Mountain sheep that lived in the rougher parts of the short-grass prairie. Anyway, I've heard stories, although I haven't seen any real evidence, like old newspaper articles on microfilm/fiche, that West River South Dakotas had a contest to see who could kill the last Audubon sheep in the early 1900s. Whether its true or not, bighorn sheep disappeared in the Badlands and the Black Hills until introduced several decades later. The population is still low in both areas.

Hypo...when they finally fight back, don't go like this guy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGGbozilko

Human...the other white meat - some deer
http://media.katu.com/images/061020_deer4.jpg

free range deer feed!
http://static.fjcdn.com/comments/Run...97bea08025.jpg

And this is why Metal is no long allowed to visit any petting zoos...

http://www.uncoolcentral.com/japan2/...tack-japan.jpg

:)

Sirscrapalot - Being beat by a deer...to funny.

Put me in Coach. I'll punch it right the face!

I figured that was your hunting method Hypo..

Hobo says "I see a deer just over there! Get the rifle!"

Hypo says " Nah...let me show you how it's done right Hobo."

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...l/6ba831a1.png

Everyone is happy but the deer. On the brightside..it tasted great.

*All names were changed to protect the hunting party..except for hobo an Hypo.

Sirscrapalot - Where's the beef?! - That little old lady from the 80s Wendy's commercials.

Just give me an old Chrysler and I'll show y'all how to do it! ;)

Where we live, I seriously think that there are more deer killed as roadkill than there are killed by hunters.

I don't want my vision ruined of Hypo straight going Hulk on a deer.

Curse you Matador, now I need to find a meme involving deer hunting, a caddy an rednecks. /sigh

Sirscrapalot - Wanting some venison.

edited for bonus content: I found images of Hypo's time working security at a petting zoo!

http://joshreads.com/images/10/10/i101022marktrail.jpg

:)

PS - Hypo is awesome.

Will a Lincoln work?

http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/201...83847547-0.jpg

matador: "Sound the horns! It's time for the hunt!"

Lol! That's too funny Sir.

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We're a pretty small farm. But, we raise hogs as our only livestock (Other than a bunch of cats and 5 chickens). In our area, there are two hog farmers left, and we're the larger one. It's worked out to be a pretty good niche for us. It's a great way for us to use the grain at the ends of fields that isn't quite as nice. Since it can't be resold for much, it's basically free feed. We're just converting it into bacon! ;)

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On my way to your house now, I NEED BACON!!!!!!!!!!!!:))

A redneck "with means" way of hunting deer, mixed "calibers"...

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=OIP.M45...95&w=147&h=109

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He did say beef not..."Beef infused with multitudes of other icky things that will make you sick if you think about it." :)

Hey it's only 2.99lb here! I was stoked. So much so I made tacos.

Sirscrapalot - Make bbq not war.

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mmm.. tacos...

First Taco Bell in Downey moving to company’s headquarters in Irvine


I like to put out information as accurately as I can, so as I write this, the first Taco Bell restaurant is being moved. I didn't realize just how small this building was, (my garage is bigger), the building is only 20' x 20'.

http://mn1-lbweb.newscyclecloud.com/...h=400&maxw=667
This June 2015 photo provided by Taco Bell shows the world’s first Taco Bell restaurant, background, in Downey, Calif., as a photo of the restaurant taken in the 1970s is displayed, foreground. On Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, Taco Bell announced plans to raise and rehabilitate the restaurant from its 53-year-old foundation in Downey and relocate it to the Taco Bell headquarters in Irvine, Calif., saving it from impending demolition.

“This is arguably the most important restaurant in our company’s history,” Taco Bell Corp. CEO Brian Niccol said. “To think a business like ours that spans 6,000 restaurants around the globe started with a walk-up window no bigger than a two-car garage is truly inspirational. When we heard about the chance of it being demolished, we had to step in. We owe that to our fans, we owe that to (company founder) Glen Bell.”

So don't go to Downey, Ca. looking for it, sometime tomorrow it well have a new location. Being moved to Taco Bell headquarters in Irvine, Ca.

Will lower beef prices lower the price of a Big Mac or a taco?
Maybe, maybe not. McDonald's is the largest buyer of beef in the United States, last year buying about 800 million pounds. That only accounts for 3% of beef consumed in this country, some of us are eating a lot of beef! Last year (2014) McDonald's announced they will start moving towards purchasing "only sustainable beef". Starting in 2016 purchasing some amount (yet to be determined) of sustainable beef. The problem? What is sustainable beef? With no accurate definition of what is and what isn't sustainable beef, this switch to sustainable beef may take awhile.

So why announce your going start buying it next year?
Posturing to be the "MOST" politically correct is my guess. I will also guess that when they, the stakeholders that will define "sustainable beef" (won't be ordinary consumers like us), but beef shot callers like Walmart, Costco, McDonald's, Cargill, Tyson Foods, Golden State Foods, Rainforest Alliance, World Wildlife Foundation, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, to name just a few. Raising cattle, processing beef, selling beef and eating it, will never be the same again. Just two of the stated goals, is the welfare of cattle throughout their lives (how about consumers lives?). Also optimize cattle's impact within ecosystems and nutrient cycles (very lofty goals).

I think lower beef prices will be temporary and very short lived. Say good-by to the $1 fast food menu, hello to $6.00+ a pound ground beef and real "rare" steaks.

http://grsbeef.org/Resources/Picture...ompressed).jpg
This hamburger is brought to you by:Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB).

Can you say "Where's the beef"?

Good thing I make better burgers at home.

I don't worry about fast food joints. I cook better. ;)

Sirscrapalot - Mooooooo! - A future hamburger.