I’ve had the privilege of eating some good western Kansas beef before. At least maybe some lucky steak eaters will benefit from this drought.
We are selling them here in east TX, too. No grass. Round bales of hay now $80.00 per.
If its like other commie/socialist countries this “grought” will last at least 2-3 more years.
/sarc
If Free Republic existed in 1980 a Freeper would have posted the same story about Wichita and the surrounding area. I lived there then and gang it was hot...and it was Kansas and it was July. We had 12+ days in a row of 100 deg heat...and I had to walk 4 miles uphill to work in a dark gray uniform and the city didn’t allow backpacks if you wore dark gray and I had to carry my 14lb government cheese and Spam lunch in my hands...and ...and...sob..sob...
These droughts happen all the time, my husband sold off his mother’s cattle about 15 years ago and never restocked. She just happened to marry a guy who had a large capital loss and she had that large capital gain and it evened out so she didn’t have to repurchase or pay huge taxes.
We will inherit that ranch some day and I figured it would take us 5 years to pay for the herd and that is with no ranch payment, just expenses. I don’t think we’ll ever restock it...but I will never say never because my husband bought 5 pair the other day and we have some feed to last a while.
Price of beef finally going down? I have about stopped buying it for the past six months.
Sorry to the ranchers, but what is bad news for one person can be good news to another.
Our Kansas pond is drying up. Scary.