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For fed cattle... prices are... down. :twisted:

What has happened? Try worrying about what's GOING to happen. If live prices stay above the '70s this summer you guys are going to be lucky. Feeder contracts are now below a buck for the first time in FOREVER. Looks like we're finally getting back to sensible markets, no thanks to R-CALF and the...

Hay-maker is prolly lucky to even get one.

Retailers have had prices in the stratosphere for beef for months due to the volatility of the market ($6 up one week, $10 down the next, etc etc). They've only just started featuring beef again in ads and have begun dropping prices in the meat counter as the box cutout has started showing some...

Could be one, could be the other. So say both close up, where ya gonna go with your cattle, Maker? Answer me that?

You don't know it yet, 'Maker but we just saved you from yourself... again.

Cotulla's about 65 miles north of Laredo. It's just off I-35... not a whole heck of a lot there.

Sorry SH, ok so let me change that to FEW of you. And thankfully the House did the right thing and passed CAFTA. Narrow margin but that's quite all right... it's still on it's way to GHWB's desk and I seriously doubt he'll veto it.

There's where we differ. You see it as selling our soul. I see it as doing only as much as is necessary to gain access to the world's markets. We can't do things unilaterally and expect our trading partners to simply acquiesce. It doesn't work that way (at least not if they can make an impact on...

Well there's the other alternative. We can go back to the 1920s and isolationism. We can let our standard of living deteriorate and go back to factories humming along full of union workers making cotton shirts and dresses etc at $9.00 an hour. We can pay $35 for that $3 Froot-of-the-Loom cotton...

The article says the attending vet "forgot" to send it in. So... not a distance or accesibility issue, but a dumbkopf issue.

Hey, Maker... packers down in YOUR part of the world export to Central America. You truly need to wake up and get your head out of the sand. YOUR cattle may have gone down there in a box. Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica and I'm not talking offal but boxed beef. In fact, I believe the only two...

Just listened to the conference call. Apparently the animal was found on a farm. It was a 12 year old animal that was having trouble calving. The vet took a sample back in April and 'forgot' to send it in. When are we going to wise up? It's time to nut up and require the slaughter of any...

The WTO can no more overrule US law than the UN can overrule US law. What they CAN do is authorize other countries to put tarriffs and other sanctions in place when a nation is in violation of treaties they've already agreed to. In this case, the US enacted law that violates the terms of a WTO...

*singing* FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE GOOOOLLLLDEN TOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! (Four pounds of backbacon, three french toasts, two turtlenecks and a BEEEEEEEEEEEEERRR on my tree). Oh, and a hearty KOOOloookookookooKOOKOOKOO to you :D

Hey Hay Maker... you want to see the enemy? It ain't the packer. It's THESE folks. http://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html

CANADIAN packers, or their canadian divisions that is. Anyone without a "North of the Border" branch has had their ash handed to them. Expensive fat cattle and cheap Canadian boxes putting pressure on the cutout; definitely not a recipe for making $$$.

Welcome to negative margins and red ink. You'd think we'd find a happy medium where we can ALL eat at the table... never quite seems to work out that way does it.

Hope he's ok Feeder... weeds and bar ditches are just a bad bad combo.

Heck I know that one and I'm a Texan. Here's a trivia question for ya, what was the name of the brewery???