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    Inescapable truth: Reagan introduces Goldwater

    How can such moving truth leave the statists, progressives, liberals, democrats, and socialists (names for the same malady) unrepentant? I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines...
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    Ag land prices said to be decreasing

    Farmland prices and cash rents continue to decline through the first quarter of 2016, according to the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City and St. Louis. The banks' quarterly surveys of ag bankers found the value of nonirrigated and irrigated cropland declined 4% and 2%, respectively, across...
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    Politicizing food?

    From ag report Denmark proposed a tax on all beef sold in the country in order to discourage beef production and consumption. The tax was an offset to their notion of the contribution cattle raising made to global warming from cattle as methane producers. Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, also...
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    This is why Trump to a conservative is like throwing water on the witch

    David Stockman: "It’s all over except the shouting. That is, the primary election season effectively ended last night and now the actual shouting match between Hillary and The Donald begins. This will surely be the most entertaining election in US history, and probably the most pointless, too...
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    Farmland prices not values

    $17,000/acre in IowA Friday, April 15, auction in Sioux Co., Iowa, saw 80 acres of prime ground sell for $17,100 an acre. The farm was located about three miles north of Orange City and was virutally all tillable. It carried a CSR2 on the cropland of 90.9 versus the county average cropland CSR2...
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    Big 10 money

    Big 10 and fox are inking a deal that will guarantee members $50 mil each and increase to perhaps even $70 mil. That's a lotta cheese for the NCAA to be locked out. I have a friend in media in KC, he says that kind of clink will doom the big 12. The SEC and pac will have to make a move.
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    Rubbing my toe in the dirt

    So Valentine sold feeders (let's use 700# class to get out of grass calves) for up or down from $175 on the 7th - $1225/hd. Oct fed cattle closed at slightly over $1.15 today. If those 700# calves gain 3# pd for the next 150 days, that's 1150#. Well they're good Sandhill cattle so let's figure...
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    It's a Free Country

    I know a retired soldier that has some physical and psyche issues(60% disabled), and he drives a truck professionally. When possible, he parkes his truck off to himself, shuts his truck off and reads. He likes it quiet and no emissions. I can't remember what state, but he told me a story about...
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    Trump Riots?

    Who penned the term "trump riots?" The disturbances at Trump rallies aren't attributable to trump or his supporters. The fascist left (sorry about the redundancy there) is engaged in a criminal conspiracy to censor political discourse. That isn't hyperbole or overstatement it's an easily...
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    Auto foreclosure rate in the oil patch

    One of my first reads is David A Stockman - you'll remember him as the budget hawk early in the Reagan administration. So he published the foreclosure rate on auto loans: U.S. ~ 6% (seems strikingly high) Tx. ~ 14.5% (patch isn't the only economy) Ok. ~ 15% (oil patch + Okies) ND ~ 43%...
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    Long Term Effects of Blood Bath in Fed Cattle

    Average per head losses for fed cattle marketed in January exceeded $500. Cattle marketed in March are projected to only lose $350 per head ("only lose $350"). The blood bath has lasted so long and been so deep, I can't imagine the cattle feeding industry can sustain these losses and continue to...
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    If you had to settle, would you pick Trump or Rubio?

    It's likely Cruz would carry the ranchers net vote, but ranchers net voters are not a typical cross section of voters. If it came down to a choice between Trump and Rubio, which way would you go and why?
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    Zuckerberg at it again

    Now Facebook has banned person to person gun sale discussion on their platform to utopia.
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    Guys on ranchers

    Probably none of us appreciate or recognize our brides as much as we should. (Well, Moreland probably does, but he casts a long shadow) So, I sent this link to my wife, and it made her cry (confirming my delinquency in recognizing her). This is a timeless song from 50 years ago-use it or send...
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    Commodity Deflation

    Denny wrote: Well the last I checked new steel hadn't wiggled in price from last spring if anything it crept up a bit. Needless to say the shop is pretty quiet. I think you need to find a new supplier if your price is higher. Last January we got 4x8x 11 ga sheet metal to make feed bunks cost...
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    Commodity Deflation

    Oil is down 66% from the high - about the same as iron ore. All the industrial metals are similarly down. Grains are off a mere 50% more or less (wanna buy some $15,000 per acre corn ground now?) Fed beef ($180 - $120) is only down 33%. Even lumber and coffee are down. Pretty much an exhaustive...
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    John Haringtons take on beef markets

    I rember when John was a young sharpshooter, now he's an old sage. He usually gets it more right than about anyone. Severely Wounded Feedlots Restock Since late summer, cattle feeders have been trapped in a financial bloodbath of historical proportion. Between Labor Day and the end of...
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    The Houdini Economy

    The Fed and the Statists have contorted reality in so many ways to deny a cleansing in the economy, but putting it off doesn't eliminate it. David Stockman (reagan's goon) posted this:"Caterpillar (CAT) posted a disastrous 16% decline in worldwide retail sales this morning, meaning that its...
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    The State of MU Athletics

    I guess you've heard, Wolfe, MU president resigned. Somebody scrawled a swastica in poo, and too many slavers go around with poo on their hands to have a manageable suspect pool. And somebody yelled a word at somebody else, and another person had a flag in their pickup. All this mayhem has made...
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    Felony Trespass

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/27/south-carolina-sheriffs-deputy-on-leave-after-forceful-classroom-arrest So teacher asks student to put cell phone away and comply with class room conduct. Student refuses. At teacher's request, principal asks student to put cell phone away...
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