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"Sound science was not invented by USDA, nor does USDA own the concept. " Well we have Sec of Ag Vaseline in charge :roll: We will have a National ID program...it will be totally screwed up! We will see the bottom fall out of the food animal business and it will have nothing to do with the...

Our moron President wants to eliminate farm subsidies on "Big Farms" grossing 500,000................give me a break. Gross sales of $500,000 @ year is a small family farm today! You can gross over $100,000 with 100 acres of corn and 100 acres of soybeasn! Is a 200 acres farm a "Big Farm"? This...

Hearing will examine progress made by the program. (3/10/2009) Jason Vance On Wednesday the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry will hold a public hearing the National Animal Identification System. USDA has received over $100 million dollars since the program was...

WASHINGTON - The food industry must drop any remaining opposition to electronic record-keeping and back an effective system for tracing contaminated food to its source, a lawmaker investigating food safety said Friday. "It is my hope that the food industry will drop its opposition to these...

If I were a city person, I would buy a small 5-10 acre deal that had water holding capacity( a ravine) and learn to plant a garden, shoot a deer and process it, and have a place to go when this whole deal goes to Hell I can feed my family! :wink:

ABERDEEN, S.D. – The developer of a new, $40 million Northern Beef Packers packing plant being built just south of Aberdeen is optimistic it will open in August or September of 2009, according to The Associated Press. Dennis Hellwig said the plant will initially process 200 to 300 head of cattle...

"Consumers want to know where their food comes from. They don't care about isoweans, structure of the industry, etc... they just want to know where their food comes from so they can decide if they trust the source enough to feed that product to their family." Sandhusker....get in the real...

NAIS is not about protecting health or helping industry. It is about increasing the control of the federal government over the food supply and thereby increasing control over the American people. And some believe it is about much more. Like taxing food and non-food animals!!!!!!!!!! BINGO!

HSUS and PETA trying to eliminate Food Animal Agruculture........ :mad: HB1146 – An Act to prohibit the torture of animals and to provide certain penalties therefor This bill would make it a Class 6 felony to intentionally torture any animal, defined as “any intentional, malicious act or...

Just curious, since ethanol really only bumped corn to about 4 bucks....what are the rest of you whinners blaming the other buck or so on???? Just curious....I would start with high transportation cost and the devalued dollar. The reality is .....90 cents fats and a buck/quarter feeders and 5...

Just curious, if we ban packer ownership, then are we going to ban the ability to forward contract grain????? Last time I checked you do not have to forward contract your cattle. I think we have more serious problems in this industry than forward contract cattle!! :roll:

Unfortunately, in a recent survey.........less than 3% of the American consumers give a "rats ass" where their food comes from. So COOL is really insignificant to our customers. COOL does NOT insure the productis safe. That message is really getting folks messed up.....

"Meyer grocery has Kelloggs Frosted flakes today for $3.89. Once got a load of Kelloggs floor sweepings to feed to cattle during a drought,Cattle loved it soomuch that they refused to eat baled 2nd cutting for almost a week !" You cannot BS Tony the Tiger!!! :roll: Yes I agree, the smaller...

Hell Porker you do the math................... :roll: Bottom line is our society does not look at the "rest of the story" before making assumptions.

Prairie Farmer MAgazine October 2007 issue page 12. Cherry Brieser Stout writer..... High corn prices play a very modest role in the food price increase! Based on $4.00 per bu corn: $2.79 12oz box of corn flakes uses 5 cents worth of CORN! A $2.69 hamburger 1.4 lb. requires 13 cents worth of...

"the Canadian dollar hit a 31-year high Friday, buying $1.0091 in U.S. currency.No one will use wheat for feeding at these Loonie prices" Porker, If Wheat, Corn, Soybean prices are looney, then what is $150.00cwt 5 wt feeder cattle? I guess it depends on what side of the fence you are on. If you...

Dick Durbin is a complete IDIOT! AND his buddy Barack Obamabitch is worse yet! :roll: They are both a disgrace to Illinois and the USA!

"Compare calf prices from 2005 to now. Considering the fact that most cow/calf producers around here actually LOST money last year, I'd say R-CALF did pretty good. Sandhusker, If any cow/calf producers lost money last year they need to find a new profession! Give me a break! :???:

the devil made me do it! :-)