Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

They used to graze cattle. Why can't they go back to doing that? Water is the big problem and the gov't uses H.A.A.R.P. to control the weather. It's in coordination with chemtrails. Those pilots who fly those chemical-spraying planes should be ashamed of themselves. And now we have Bill Gates promoting artificial meat. It's all planned.

https://www.westernjournal.com/one-detail-cattle-showing-sale-barns-across-us-might-mean-beef-skyrocket-price/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-WJ&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal&ats_es=ddeba4b7eaa6d42b3e43c72066fd33cf

American cattlemen are selling off the future just to survive the present.

With drought drying up water holes and burning up the feed cattle need, and sky-high prices making it too expensive to truck in feed from elsewhere, ranchers are cutting herds.

Overall, the Department of Agriculture estimates America’s cattle herds have shrunk 2 percent in the past year, according to Fox Business.

But it is not only the numbers that indicate short-term desperation that will have long-term consequences.

“We are seeing large numbers of female stock have been placed in feedlots,” USDA livestock analyst Shayle Shagam said Tuesday. Males are usually preferred for meat.

Shagam said that a combination of increased females being sold and an overall decline in cattle means “supplies of cattle going to feedlots is going to be declining,” leading to “progressively tighter supplies of all fed cattle available for slaughter as we move into 2023.”

And that means the existing 9.7 percent increase in the price of ground beef from a year ago could keep getting worse.

National Cattleman’s Beef Association CEO Colin Woodall said the extent and severity of the drought have checkmated strategies for coping with regional droughts that might mean relocating cattle or trucking in hay to feed them.

“There’s no place to go because everybody is struggling to find the forage they need to feed their cattle,” Woodall said.

“We do expect the prices to continue upwards, but everybody has to remember that it’s not cattle producers setting that price. It’s all about costs. When you look at those who make a decision to send their cattle to market to either thin down their herd or completely eliminate their herd, it is always going to be attributed to the increase of their input costs. And that is everything from the cost of feed, cost of hay and cost of diesel for tractors, diesel for the truck, fertilizer costs. And there’s so many things that go into producing cattle that the producers just don’t have any control over,” he said.

The glut of sales this year means shortages down the road.

“A heifer is two years old before she produces her first baby,” John Kleiboeker, who owns a breeding cattle operation in California, Missouri, said. “That calf is another 18 months after that. So you’re talking about close to 40 months from the time that little baby heifer is born until she has produced a pound of beef.”

Kleiboeker said on an average year, he buys 110 to 120 big round hay bales from one supplier. This year, all he could get were 57 bales, and the cost was up 50 percent. Trucking in hay will be costly, he said.

“There is hay available, but with freight, the cost of t***sportation to bring it 200 to 250 miles south may be prohibitive,” Klieboeker said. “Well, if you go adding an extra $1000 to $1,200 to a load of 30 round bales of hay, it gets really expensive real fast.”

Bryan Luensmann of the Seguin Cattle Company said ranchers have little choice but to sell what they can, according to CNN.

“When Mother Nature’s slamming you like this, I mean, whether it’s feed for the cattle or running out of water, something’s gotta give and you got to let some of them go,” he said. “At the end of the day, people rely on this as an income.”

“It’s gonna continue this way until it rains, or we sell off the last of the cattle around here,” he said.

The impact of the drought is compounded by sky-high prices for everything that goes into ranching, he said.

“That’s why some people are throwing their hands in,” Luensmann said.

Gatsby

I don't think much of your source.

"female cows" They are either cows or heifers, "male cows" are either bulls or steers.

Without a breakdown of those numbers, any conclusion is muddled, at best.

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

I wondered about that, too. Maybe they were trying to explain it so lefties could understand it.

PeterS

My mother-in-law is sending all of her beef to market. It's either that or feed all of her winter hay now to support them. But if all the farmers send their meat to market that will drive down the price, not increase it, the increase will come this winter when there is no beef for the market.

And I know, you are going to blame Biden but this is a product of c*****e c****e, the same c*****e c****e that you conservatives chose to ignore, which is going to drive all food prices through the roof...thank you very much!

Justice101

You gullible c*****e c****e believers never cease to amaze....

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/another-climate-alarmist-admits-real-motive-behind-warming-scare/

F.D.R.

The solution is simple. Hire out of work Indians (the native American type) to do their rain dance. Problem solved, except maybe in Las Vegas or Kentucky which were recently flooded. Wonder if they had hired Indians?

Wonttakeitanymore

Nuisance in cally is dumping fresh water in the ocean!

Wonttakeitanymore

C*****e c****e bulls**t!

Wonttakeitanymore

Or wash ur car! Lol

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

👍 Thanks for the link.

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

Have you noticed that they aren't spraying chemtrails lately? When they restart, then it'll start raining again.

I remember a story about a guy who said he could make it rain. I think this was in California but am not sure where exactly. Anyway, the city gov't hired him to make rain because crops were starting to fail, etc. He mixed his chemicals and shot them up into the air (don't remember how he did that) and then they waited. Well, the rains started coming down - almost like the days of Noah. Everything was being flooded. The city gov't wound up suing the guy for causing the flooding. Oh, here it is:

https://gizmodo.com/heres-what-happened-when-a-rainmaker-ended-up-in-court-1680338361

Here's What Happened When A Rainmaker Ended Up In Court

Justice101

You're welcome, Ginny. Direct from their g*******t mouths.

Justice101

Got a good laugh out of this. Thanks Ginny.

Oscar louks

Make sure you season the f**e meat really really well because if you eat it plain it taste like snot

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

👍 Exactly why I sent it to my email list! Thanks again!