Posted on 07/20/2016 6:51:12 AM PDT by Olog-hai
6 cows per acre is a luxury I’ll never see.
Grazing cows = LITERALLY HITLER!!!!!!!!!!1
We have an organic co-op in Wisconsin
https://www.organicvalley.coop/
They market many products among them is what they label Pasture Butter. It is made strictly from cows that pasture feed. It is delicious and tastes like fresh clover.
As far as Mormons and coffee go, love them or hate them, they are great record keepers and preservers. You can view scores of pioneer journals online such as this site. The tea came later. Coffee was the beverage of choice until the later half of the trail history. Mormons were much more lax on enforcing their admonitions against drinking coffee and alcohol until safe drinking water became widely available by the late 1870s.
While pioneer journals about the Mormon Trail are relatively common because of their centralized hierarchy where every company was assigned one journal keeper (and many more kept their own journal), those of the much greater traveled Oregon Trail are relatively rare because each company was organized according to the whims of the members.
Many of the individual journals mention the pollution of these rivers due to buffalo crossings. And, while it is true that there was no EPA in those days to take water samples and provide actual data, given the number and concentration of the bison herds in those days, it is a logical inference.
Just go to the website a read a few of the pioneer journals if you need further convincing.
Long Horn’s? Please tell me your joking. Some people raise long horns as a novelty or a Texas tradition but I don’t know anybody who raises them commercially, other than to sell them to novelty buyers.
I think you are correct, my husband bought 2 Longhorns just for their looks. One has died from cancer eye, the other is magnificent! I named him Meatloaf. The one who died was named Hamburger. Those names were just a warning that they should behave themselves.......or else!
And think of the environmental havoc caused by free range chickens!
And government grants.
The “Methane Matters” group will soon be out there assassinating cows.
I'm not sure of the major cattle breeds they run in Texas. Maybe you can educate me.
Quite the contrary. Longhorns have a commercial role, though it's specialized.
Many livestock breeders believe that calves produced by a longhorn-heifer mating have a better birthing rate -- better survival by the calf, better survival rate by the heifer.
But, once she's a cow (instead of a heifer), standard breeding practices will prevail.
Wait until they discover the huge methane emission problem from growing rice.
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