looks like beef prices are coming down... - Page 2

Originally Posted by DakotaRog

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...

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.

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

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.

Will a Lincoln work?



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

Lol! That's too funny Sir.

Originally Posted by matador

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!

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

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'.


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.


This hamburger is brought to you by:Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB).

Can you say "Where's the beef"?