Whatever you do, Ethanol and cows don't mix...
Posted on 01/22/2022 1:59:34 PM PST by george76
My wife just bought 6, 50 lb bags of grain for her horses from our local feedmill and the price is up 25% from her last order just a few months back.
Hay went from 3.50 to averaging 6.50-7.00 a bale in one year.
It certainly seems to be headed that way.
The problem is they’re competing with other things that are being shipped by rail. Couple years ago, there were several dozen Union Pacific engines sitting idle outside of Missouri Valley, Iowa. Now there are none. Gas prices go higher, train traffic becomes more competitive.
-—feedlot people-—? The typical feedlot has in the neighborhood of 30,000 feeders. Once the animals are in the finishing stage you just can’t turn them loose to graze especially in winter after the fields that might be available have already been grazed. And trucking them back to the growers is out of the question.
Smaller custom feedlots, say 200,300,400 animals have the same problem. The areas of the country that had a drought of one level or another were already short of stores. Then remember that the chicoms had a bad year a year ago and they’ve been here buying our reserves. Eastern Washington, the Palouse, grows about 80 million tons of grain stuff/year and typically 80% of that goes to Asia. This past year they took it all. But if it makes you feel any better we kept some Chinese guys from losing weight?
Thanks for explanation.
And still, those poor cows.
You gotta know where those UP engines you’re missing are now? They’re pulling brand new tanker cars from the Kanadian Athabasca, hauling crude Kanadian to Loosiana for refining. You can thank Warren Buffett. He’s the guy who wanted the Keystone stopped so it wouldn’t compete with his tankers. One of the busiest businesses in the country in the past year is the tank car builders. And Warren thanks you for paying those higher gas prices.
I buy about a half ton of steel a month and those guys are the single biggest factor in my costs being up about 30% in the past year.
Excellent post.
Thank you.
Blocking pipelines that transport oil - cheaper and safer - forces that oil to be shipped by ( large democrat donor $$ ) Warren Buffet’s RR - thus fewer engines, etc. available to haul corn, etc.
Red Deer, Alberta webcam.
Ethanol in fuel is more important …. Right ?
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For now, but soon the EV revolution will hit, and they will have to plant bio-fuels to power airline planes, until they make windmills small enough to mount on the planes next to the solar panels.
BINGO!
Q) Who would have thought some stupid little boy and a demented old man could screw things up this bad.
A) Many of us did.
We are living in an Ayn Rand novel.
Whatever you do, Ethanol and cows don't mix...
What happens if cows only eat say 5 days out of 7, to help ration tight feed supplies?
In the book, it was the problem of getting wheat and soybeans moving by rail. Here the crops are different, but the problem is the same.
The ping is much appreciated, Publius...hope all is well!
I am beginning to regret having read Atlas Shrugged, because it makes me feel that I already know how all this is going to end because I read the book!
If only there were a Galt’s Gulch. If only.
You shut down the border to truckers that don’t have vaccinations, and suddenly there’s a feed shortage.
What a surprise!
At nine to eleven months of age, cattle are typically moved to a feedlot where they are raised to a finished weight of about 635 kg.
The feed lot is just that, the place they fatten them up before the slaughter.
I was shopping at my local kosher market Thursday and spotted some whole chickens. Although I didn’t need a whole chicken, I was curious about their current price. And was blown backward when I read: $20.26 for a regular-sized dead chicken which had been plucked, gutted, and lay in a styrofoam tray.
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