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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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The animals that I have marked for my freezer have names. Names don’t stop me from becoming hungry, nor do they stop the bullet and the knife that help make me not hungry. Its the circle of life.

$15/lb in 2017. If that’s in USD. Fillet is more than twice that in some stores now and you have to sell your F-150 to buy a brisket these days. The prices at the sale barn are good for ranchers selling but rebuilding a herd is expensive. If things keep going the way they are with corn, hay and fertilizer it’s only going up from here so I’m buying hay now for the next year and saving all I cut. A buddy of mine that works at the local feed store (the men’s rumor mill around here) estimates that over 75% of the herds in the area are on a note at the bank. That’s a rough time if we don’t get rain.
 
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Lots of extra cows and heifers get put into the meat aisle, it isn’t just bulls and steers. Especially during droughts when herds get thinned out.
Yes, "open" cows and heifers all go to the sale barn and then to the processing plant. Can't keep them around if they aren't going to have a calf.

Open: not bred/pregnant
 
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My uncle had a '70s something, Satellite comes to mind, with an AC vent directly below the steering wheel that blew straight into the drivers crotch. As good of an invention as the automatic headlight dimmer on Dads '59 Olds.

Thank you,
MrSmith
My PawPaw had a 71 Chevy Impala with the same vents for the passenger and driver. Asked him one day what these vents are for and he said they were called “cod coolers”😂 He was a fine man and great fisherman!