“These are less than $3.50 (and until beef prices got run up, were $2.95 just a couple of years ago)”
Burn corn in your car and the price of feedlot cattle goes up, most fertilizer is oil based, I think and thus fertilizer goes up. Transporting cattle to market costs more, tractor operation costs more, hell, everything costs more. Rustling cattle is becoming a booming business in our area. They caught a couple of kids stealing calves and taking them to their 2nd story apartment. Neighbors below thought they liked to dance a lot. They got caught after some months when one of the employees noticed they were bringing the calves to auction stuffed in the back of a small hatchback car.
Hardtimes brings out the best or the worst in people. Thanks Obama, you SOB.