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Maxine, are you in the cattle business, or the beef business? And please everyone, lets keep this thread civil. Ben Roberts

As of today 02/17/08, we still don't have a farm bill, but we will soon. As we get closer to spring planting season farmers need their(farm payment checks) for seed and fuel to put their crops in. Pressure, from farm districts will force a new farm bill to be signed. This is nothing new...

My first appearance on Ranchers.net was in 2001. I then tried to bring some knowledge and history of the cattle industry that is being controlled by the multi-national packers, and what we as cattle producers, could do to stop this slide into becoming no more than employes for them. Does it...

Sandhusker ask this question on a previous thread. "What are you going to do, or wish you had done, when the packers can get all the beef they want from Brazil?" After I thought about his question, why should I answer his question! What I say and do has no impact, so I ask that very same...

CONGRATULATIONS CANADA, on your independence, July 1st 1867 Best Regards Ben Roberts

Tam, here is my inventory update for the week of 03/12/2007 Slaughtered 3 head 03/12/2007 127-3= 124 Ben Roberts

I will be quoting here from, The Investigation by the Justice Department, for the Federal Trade Commission in 1917, it was this investigation that created the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921. " This investigation and the passage of the Sherman Act, however, did not long prevent the big...

Van Dyke...."We know the cattle were on our place but have no overwhelming proof that they were." Tam, this should answer your question about, does he have any photos that prove they were on his place. Van Dyke.... "Swift then told us that all 43 cattle on the load were subject to being...

A member of the Van Dyke family, started posting on this board 02/08/07 and then dropped out of site on 02/09/07 after seventeen post of wanting to answer questions for us ( he did not have to do this, he wanted to) and then after over, two hundred and fifty replies, some of them questions most...

Oldtimer, in 2002 I wrote a book for cattlemen like yourself. I was going to print and bind that book, and gift it to R-CALF, for a means of increasing their membership. Before, I finished the book I called R-CALF and talked to John Locke, I ask him, "what has R-CALF done for its members, since...