Posted on 04/28/2020 7:57:20 PM PDT by know.your.why
Animal Farm: They Are Culling the Herd -- Time to Wake Up
*Video at link*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKeDX1NUD9Y
Our farmers are destroying their products such as milk,pork,chicken and beef at an alarming rate and it is absolutely sickening.
What else can they do with them. They can’t afford to feed them while they stand around doing nothing but looking pretty.It takes several years to put a beef cow on the market and several years to get a producing dairy cow. If they think that they can import enough beef cows from anywhere outside the United States but Canada and Mexico to furnish the population of the United States with reasonable priced meat, they are only kidding themselves. Ditto pork.
I cannot imagine beef from Namibia could ever approch the quality of a US grown beef.
I don’t believe that for a minute. Chicken possibly but why would you kill a hog for a one month market disruption? An enterprising hog farmer would sell it live on the hood before he killed it and then had to endure the cost of disposing of it. My cattle ranching buddy said there is no way in hell he’s going to start shooting beef anytime in the near future. He can hold them longer and the price will go down but killing them would be a total loss.
Somebody is trying to create a panic. You can bet they stand to make some money off of it.
Is Namibian beef grain fed, or grass fed, or something else?
Are you speaking from knowledge or something else? Are you really saying that our US based grain fed beef is better quality than African grass fed hormone free beef?
“The arid southern African nation, known for free-range, hormone-free beef, is set to export 860 tonnes of various beef cuts in 2020 to the United States, rising to 5,000 tonnes by 2025. “
yes. If you’ve eaten scrub or grass-fed only beef, you can tell the difference between grain-finished beef. Grain adds marbling. Fat. Juiciness and tenderness. Corn especially adds flavor. The best Angus beef in the world comes from America.
The below article explains why the ‘beef has hormones’ thing is just another urban myth meant to scare children and housewives into purchasing higher-priced boutique-farm beef.
“... a key point is that cattle are implanted long before they go to slaughter. By then, the implant hormone is used up. That’s partly why feed efficiency and growth rate trail off later in the feeding period — the implants and their growth-promoting effects are depleted.
“It’s also why there’s almost no measurable difference in hormone levels in beef from implanted and unimplanted cattle. There is more variation in hormone levels between male and female cattle than between treated and untreated animals.
“BCRC’s document, “Optimizing Feed Efficiency in Feedlots,” explains how and why beef producers may provide ionophores and beta agonists as feed supplements to improve feed efficiency and weight gain. Neither contain steroid hormones, nor do they mimic or supplement hormones, Bergen clarifies.
https://www.canadiancattlemen.ca/features/straight-talk-on-hormones-in-beef/
Yeah I sure am. Texas...Africa doesn’t have the skill set to make good beef. Argentina does damn good, but pretty much almost nowhere else.
Thanks for posting!!
Yes, but just $19/month will show you care.
We’ll even send you this certificate of authenticity to prove it.
yes. If you’ve eaten scrub or grass-fed only beef, you can tell the difference between grain-finished beef. Grain adds marbling. Fat. Juiciness and tenderness. Corn especially adds flavor. The best Angus beef in the world comes from America.
^ This. Pure grass fed beef usually sucks. Beef needs to be finished on grain. Many in these parts have tried to raise “grass fed organic beef” only to find no market once people taste it. I’ve watch these producers go out of business one after another. There’s no local grain supply here so grain finishing is too expensive.
The schedule for hogs going to market this week was set about 293 days ago.
Think of it as a conveyor belt, with today’s pigs put into the production cycle 293 days ago when the boar and sow were put together to breed.
Every bit of space since then has been scheduled to be used by those pigs as they grow to market weight.
There is very little wasted space, time, or feed, and the conveyor keeps moving forward every day.
If the hogs scheduled to go to market this week (literally THIS week) can’t go for any reason things start to back up, pens become over crowded, feed schedules become skewed, lots of other things, big and small start to go wrong, mayhem results.
There is only one solution, if hogs at the front of the line, those ready to go to the packing plant can’t be killed, some of the pigs further back must be killed.
Before I retired I raised and sold hundreds of thousands of hogs, so I know a little of the heartbreak these guys are facing.
Short answer no. Long answer hell no. Those cows are out on the range happily munching grass. If they are infeed lots they are going to be processed because Trump just invoked the Defense Production act ordering all meat processors to stay open.
The meat packing plant “bottleneck” is caused by spoiled sons and daughters of monopoly families full of left-leaning, insulated freaks. They’re anti-American. They hate their own American neighbors. They like having third world trash as slaves. They push for sweetheart regulations against any potential domestic competition.
We need new families rising to compete in business—families with traditional American common sense.
Drudge Report, in big red letters: “BEEF SHORTAGES ALARM”
It links to an anti-Trump rant at the National Review.
Agreed. I’ve raised cattle on about three perennials (some roughages, some legumes) and finished them with some grain and also have helped ranchers with rangy Range cattle in the West.
Range cattle constantly run from one place to another looking for sparse, rough forage (including too much sage along with the very rough grasses) in semi-arid or even arctic conditions and run from the predators loved so much by the folks on the Range (animal worship, tree worship, etc., see ancient Germanic religions). The cattle finished with grain are better on the table for sure, and properly raised fresh beef is better than the stuff that rots in coolers too long.
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