Posted on 10/14/2013 3:19:18 PM PDT by yoe
Raising cattle or growing grapes takes real risk takers and mighty hard workers.
Western SD needs more shelter infrastructure.
The average MotherJones reader thinks a single cheeseburger contributes to global warming. This story must leave them horribly conflicted.
I feel sorry for that poor cow. Leaned on a pole and froze to death, I guess. Wish I knew more about ranching; I would deduce there was no shelter arrangement for the animals where they were. In the older days cowboys would literally walk herds of cattle over long distances and dangers like this were inherent, but I’d have thought in modern times with motor transportation the beef would be kept from freezing till it had been to the slaughter house? Anyhow I “wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.” Surprised PETA isn’t screaming.
Need a barf bag to read the comments over there at Muthu Jonzes !
This article is exactly why the FRAUDS ON THE LEFT changed from calling their scam global warming to climate change. Mother Jones quoting from the frauds at IPCC is beyond a joke.
Seems like it would be relatively cheap for ranchers to build sections of wall or storm fence on the rangeland. It won’t save all the cattle but those who can reach it would probably be OK.
I don't think these ranchers up north were prepared....
Yes, Al Gore warned us that Global Warming could cause Planetary Cooling, but you just have to be a Liberal to understand the concept.
Yep. They explain this “climate change”—more heat produces more cold. Who’d have guessed it?
Kind of the sense I am getting. Bare bones operation, no emergency provision for the critters? To be fair, that storm was a freak, and no economic sense carrying around provision for the 1% freak occurrence at a cost of over 1%. (Still if I was a rancher and had the choice, I’d do it because I’d care about the cows. Don’t mind turning them into beef and leather, but want to do it humanely.)
So now they're naming snow storms?
So now they're naming snow storms?
>> Western SD needs more shelter infrastructure.
Why do they care if the cattle freeze when the taxpayers bail them out? Building shelters takes effort and money.
Just another example of how government interference in the marketplace — in this case, subsidizing any downside — actually ENCOURAGES scaling up production in unsuitable areas with no provision for cold weather.
Kind of like federal flood insurance encourages building, and rebuilding, and re-rebuilding in flood- and hurricane-prone areas.
If the dxmn government would stay out of it, the market would take care of dumb homeowners (and reckless ranchers) and there’d be less of this crap happening.
>> Western SD needs more shelter infrastructure.
Why do they care if the cattle freeze when the taxpayers bail them out? Building shelters takes effort and money.
Just another example of how government interference in the marketplace — in this case, subsidizing any downside — actually ENCOURAGES scaling up production in unsuitable areas with no provision for cold weather.
Kind of like federal flood insurance encourages building, and rebuilding, and re-rebuilding in flood- and hurricane-prone areas.
If the dxmn government would stay out of it, the market would take care of dumb homeowners (and reckless ranchers) and there’d be less of this crap happening.
That seems to be what is commonly built, but now too much of it visible from I-90.
>> Who’d have guessed it?
It *is* counterintuitive... but have a hit on this bong and attend that Organizing For America rally and take that university/teevee-station/NGO job, and you’ll get in the groove...
The killing winds and storms come from one direction one day and another day the next.
In addition, the capacity of the rangeland may be as little as 2 or 3 mother cows per section (one square mile).
How do you do that?
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