Recent content by Cinch

At least they're not calling them listening sessions. Maybe that means they really will listen.

Isn't it amazing that the COOL is already in place and working and SH is telling us how it will not work. SH, have you noticed the labels in the grocery stores? I studiously avoid "farm-raised' shrimp from (fill in with Asian nation's name). I do the same for beef and pork. I do not buy it if...

I asked an ag economist about the comparisons of retail prices of beef, year over year. I was concerned that they might be adding in value-added stuff, like breading, or just looking at average retail prices of beef from say 1980 to 2008. He told me that all comparisons are apples to apples...

This can best be illustrated by imagining someone at the store. The clerk (packer) gives back the wrong change to the customer (feeder). The feeder is shortchanged. Re #2 Does it make any difference whether it was an honest mistake or not, the customer (feeder) was shortchanged. Re #4 What...

Naw, SH did it.

The hog cycle disappeared some time ago. Hog production is not profitable. The chicken cycle is long dead. Now cattle. In a properly functioning market of ANY kind, there will be cycles. That's the idiocy of the current "crisis" mentality. When the cycle is gone, IT MEANS THE MARKET IS BROKEN...

Cattle cycle?? What cattle cycle? Cattle numbers have been going down for a VERY long time. USDA called the bottom about three years ago, then said OOPS, we were wrong. We have a continuing decline in numbers which is another indicator that the market is broken.

You're right Sandhusker. The market is not even SUPPOSED to work that way. Regardless of profitability, the packers are supposed to price cattle according to supply and demand. When the supply of cattle is tight, the price is supposed to go up, because there are more packers chasing fewer...

And so R-CALF continues the fight.

Just to clarify. Only one little piece of it got shut down. Requiring premises registration in order to participate in certain federal disease control programs got shut down. There's still more to go.

COOL changed my buying habits. My wife likes shrimp and fish. COOL for shrimp and fish took effect a while ago. When we were in the grocery store, I pointed out to her the tiny print on the raw shrimp and raw fish packages that designate their origin. I asked her not to choose anything farm...

So in the case where my wife and I own part of a corporation, but we also have a separate joint ownership of a brand, it would be like this: I get a vote My wife gets a vote The corporation gets a vote Right? Is a partnership treated like a corporation or is it treated like joint ownership of...

Looks good. I also had the same thought as Muddy. But try this. Just playing devil's advocate. I have a brand in my name. I have one in mine and my wife's name. My wife and I are part owners in a corporation that has a brand. I have a partnership with by brother, the partnership has a brand...

Good debate.!!!!

What do you call it when the tax structure protects foreign imports against domestic competition. I would start with "stupidity" Undoing stupidity is not protectionism, it's intelligence.