Buy silver and gold.
Posted on 09/10/2021 3:56:16 PM PDT by RandFan
Haa, that’s the caption or name of article it’s from.
Damn auto correct I hate phone screen type pads.
Check out Scidirect or EBSCO servers for cattle and pasture consumptive water use. That’s the term you are looking for. Consumptive use is by definition lost to the local water cycle. Evaporated and transporation water that is lost to the air doesn’t rain back down close enough to that source to be captured for reuse this is well documented in the American West.
Inflation ping...
haha. Truth is truth :D
Real poncho. Woodland camo milsurp from the late 80s or so. Have four from when I had amphitheater season tickets. Those shows were rain or shine!
I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking that! Not that I’ve ever butchered anything.
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Ha.
They don’t look a day over 60.
A rock music writer said the aging rock stars of the classic era like Robert Plant, Keith Richards and Bob Dylan “don’t look their ages” (mid to late 70s).
They look 90.
I saw Keef play as part of the New Barbarians in the late 70s. We were right on the wall (”festival seating” back in the day), 10’-15’ away from him the whole show.
He looked like death warmed over THEN!
Thanks to JD_UTDallas for the good information. I’m not a geologist but have learned from geologists. Such information helped me to make better choices on small land purchases, choosing water well locations and designing and building rural residential water systems.
A PhD. nuclear physicist decided to help design a sustainable community that would survive possible future disasters, so he bought a small farm acreage and advertised for graduate and student interns to help. One of his projects involved drilling a water well with a tiny well drilling kit and some sort of lawn mower engine.
He drilled less than 30 feet, if I remember correctly, and found water. I knew that it was nowhere near deep enough. Individuals drank that water and became very ill. Pesticides and herbicides can also be in shallow ground water in many places, especially in cropland in the Midwest, where the young man’s community farming and manufacturing project is ongoing but very slowly with respect to equipment like tractors and well drilling rigs.
I gave the nuclear physicist a link to plans for a simple sand filter system that he could build to clean up the highly mineralized water a little more after pumping it from a well that should be more than 80 feet deep.
He opted to dig a pond, instead, and filter the water from that. He would add an ozone light to the filter system to kill whatever microbes made it past the bio-sand filter.
Hmmm. I told him to beware of any nearby, uphill crops and left it at that (pesticides, herbicides and other possible contaminants).
There’s no solid rock for around 225 to 250 feet in depth in that particular location in the Midwest. It’s soil and clay all the way down except for one or two very shallow aquifers (sand a gravel) between the surface and that rock. ...which brings me to another mistaken assumption on the part of some folks.
Another interesting situation... Someone bought a small lot in the same area and asked if he could have a septic system built on the lot. I told him that he could. The lot is large enough. There’s no water well nearby, and the nearest gulch (a drainage ditch) is more than far enough away. But a neighbor (another man) was there, listening and disagreed.
The other neighbor said that the new lot owner couldn’t have a septic system, because there was a nearby spring. He said that the new lot owner could go to a road about a hundred yards uphill to hear the spring trickling and running all the way down and across his new lot.
Heh. Well, I already described (above) what is under our feet. There’s no spring, but there is a drainage pipe tricking into the drainage ditch under some brush next to a nearby road. That’s what the NIMBY was referring to, and he wanted the same lot that the new owner had purchased. He also didn’t want any engineer or state inspector noticing the many improperly built waste systems in the neighborhood.
My brain just got pinged by my memory. It said grass fed + organic and the USDA approve US organic certification, not imported stuff.
US/USDA “Organic” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Big AG got their way with it.
Keith Richards....
He should try Olay Regenerist Creme....
Facial cleanser expertly formulated with Vitamin C and Peptides. It contains gentle exfoliators that will smooth skin.
Creamy and gentle, this formula has unique exfoliating beads (like the texture of sugar) that break down as you cleanse so you don’t over-scrub.
Well, here I went and revealed my skin secret. Oh, well.
I forgot to mention what I saw with water on an intermontane basin on the Rockies. Water from rain and snow there evaporated very quickly. It didn’t run deep into the soil for the most part. Most of the water for cattle was supplied by creeks, rivers and deep aquifers that ran down from the peaks. Most of the wells were around 200 feet deep (several aquifers around creeks and a river) or much deeper (another aquifer, with uranium in some places).
In wetter parts of the Midwest, much of the land formerly used for producing beef through the 1970s is now producing crops. Land prices have skyrocketed, and the federal folks have made plans to start regulating heavily there.
They claim that nitrates are running down to rivers too much and killing the fish in the Gulf of Mexico. ...which has always been the case with more naturally produced bio-substances running down to the Mississippi flats (below the delta) and swampy places in other northern Gulf states...nothing new. But they have revenue dollar signs in their eyes, as they look at the farmland in the Midwest.
Thanks for both of your detailed analysis. I was commenting more globally over a longer period of time, as opposed to a specific location or even a state. At some point the water will flow back to an equilibrium. It seems unlikely that the Pacific Ocean will rise with a corresponding decrease in the Atlantic. I am no way an expert, but it seems logical that you could disrupt local water tables by changing use characteristics or the local vegetation, but eventually the system will reach an equilibrium. One location may have less rainfall and surface water, but it will be offset by a corresponding increases somewhere else. The water will not be lost or destroyed.
Good luck on the wells. Changes in what goes into the water up spring can have large impact on water quality. On the farm, we used one well for drinking and another for livestock. The choice was determined by location and taste. We never had it tested but nothing other than farming was close by. When city water became available my parents switched to that. I used to think the “city” water tasted funny but after awhile I couldn’t figure out how I ever could stand the well water when I went home.
Be careful tomorrow.
My experience is from the Midwest. Funny what you added because we raised some cattle through to the middle 70’s then switched to all crops. (Too much work). The EPA was getting stricter on wells in the 80’s and Dad filled up an unused one then.
The farmland prices seems to be driven heavily by ethanol mandates, interest rates, and property taxes. People don’t realize they can make real-estate worthless with property taxes.
“Not all stores mark ‘Product of the US’. That is a guarantee that it is from us but Congress ruled back during obama’s regime (iirc) that COLA (country of origin) notification is no longer required. Even if it has USDA marked on the label, it does not guarantee it is from the US.”
It was a Republican controlled Congress that eliminated country of origin. Remember that the next time your GOP representative tells you he or she wants to bring jobs back to America.
My dad said they didn’t take lightly to any pub that watered down their drinks in south Omaha
The demonrats have the “Sadim” touch... everything they touch, turns to shit.
(That’s Midas in reverse btw)
I always called that the obama touch!
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