Born and Raised in the Beef Industry - Cattle Feeder, Trader & Advocate
Nebraska - Cattle Country
Joined January 2014
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We have to pay more for food if we want local food with local employees. It’s an uphill battle. Everyone thinks getting USDA inspection is the problem. Making it work economically is the problem.
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Super small kill relative to expectations. Packers may just be serious this time around.
#cattle 97K inspected vs. 103K last week, and 119.3K last year, Sat 17K vs. 24K last week, and 6.5K last year. Week 526K vs. 542K last week, and 493.8K last year. YTD -7.5%
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I spoke with Joel Salatin today (Polyface Farm).
He has the exact same assessment.
Trump isn't deregulating meat processing at all.
Buy the rumor, sell the news. The belief that Trump would deregulate meat processing and give farmers direct retail access was overblown.
A Nothing Burger brownstone.org/articles/a-no…
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"Just 3% of supply" is an ignorant statement in the commodity world. A marginal 1-2% shortage or excess sets the price on 100% of the supply. ie. MEX Border = +$50/cwt. live despite being few % points of total supply.
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I always find it interesting how this industry looks at all fundamentals as percentages (Placements, Marketings, COF) but refuses to look at markets, returns and margins that way - always dollars per head and never % margin per head
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In my experience it’s never about the specific fundamentals but about when market psychology switches from being a supply based market (because of short supply) to a demand based market (because of short demand)
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NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals
Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf
Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966
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This is not true. We have no confirmed case within 1 mile of the border.
As we have done for the last 15 months, we will continue to share all information. If a case in proximity is confirmed, we are ready.
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(1/4) A report from a state official in Mexico today incorrectly claimed that @USDA has set a date to resume livestock imports from Mexico.
This is NOT accurate.
USDA has not set a date for resuming livestock imports.
Con relación a la información difundida por un dirigente ganadero estatal respecto de una supuesta decisión del Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos, sobre la reanudación de la exportación de ganado, la Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural debe señalar que esa información es totalmente incorrecta.
Hacemos un llamado a todos los actores de la ganadería mexicana a actuar con responsabilidad y mesura en un momento en que están teniendo lugar importantes procesos de diálogo y trabajo técnico con nuestras contrapartes estadounidenses, que esperamos que puedan conducir a una solución favorable y pronta de la suspensión de la exportación de ganado.
El Gobierno de México informará oportunamente cuando existan los elementos para hacerlo.
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"BASKETBALL SCHOOL 83, FOOTBALL SCHOOL 77. RENAME THE MOVIE"
Kent Pavelka is a treasure. Protect that man at all cost.
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Honestly, the majority of feedback I’ve heard isn’t that they (Tyson) should have to operate a plant at a loss - it’s that they should have to offer it for sale for someone else to take the risk
That’s the government helping maintain a free and competitive market 🤷🏻♂️
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Welcome back normal old cattle business. I’ve not missed you. But I sure as fuck remember you.
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Cows can’t add a single atom of carbon to the atmosphere that a plant hasn’t previously removed.
Carbon is part of a biogenic cycle and can neither be created nor destroyed.
People who try to frame cows as causing climate change don’t understand how science works.
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$180+ good cows in places.
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To follow this up (and be fair to any hardworking, honest folks at USDA), this screwworm report was 100% fabricated by a Missouri radio station with no USDA involvement
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I agree the defeatist attitude toward herd rebuild is anti-American (cattle guys have always been the eternal optimists)
I worry though that it’s largely because of producer age - few guys over 60 want to double up their risk at that stage of life
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This idea that cattle burps and farts are harming the welfare of the planet is the most anti-scientific gobbledygook I’ve ever heard of, and you cannot convince me otherwise.
60-100 million bison roamed the Great Plains during the Little Ice Age. Roughly 87.2 million cattle exist in the U.S. today and the livestock inventory has fallen for over 25 years according to the USDA.
Bovine digestive systems do not control the planet’s climate.
