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Elevators working in reverse as Alberta cattle feeders face increasingly desperate feed shortage
Real Agriculture. ^ | January 20, 2022

Posted on 01/22/2022 1:59:34 PM PST by george76

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To: no-to-illegals

You don’t really have much experience feeding cattle, or raising corn, do you?


41 posted on 01/22/2022 4:33:00 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: wintertime

I said that during the Obama years.

Oh yeah, Psaki let slip in the last couple days that this is Obama’s third term, that he’s the man behind the curtain.


42 posted on 01/22/2022 4:51:22 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: BiglyCommentary

I doubt if you could sell the cows on that system. Hungry cows are un-bleeping-manageable. They will start by ignoring fences, corrals, etc. They will start searching and will mow down anything chewable they can get to——including the neighbor’s front yard.

As a side note the south side of Chicago used to have the biggest feed yards in the country. As I recall to local geniuses shut down the yards as well as the jobs , to build Midway air field. But can you imagine what those cows, and Mrs, Oleary’s cow, would have done to Chicago if they had gotten hungry? Food for thot?


43 posted on 01/22/2022 5:04:44 PM PST by OldWarBaby
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To: Paladin2

They’re using “distillers’ dried grains “ to feed the cattle also.đŸ¤”


44 posted on 01/22/2022 5:16:11 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Rebelbase
As if beef prices were not high already.

Biden-Sign-of-the-Times

45 posted on 01/22/2022 5:22:35 PM PST by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: OldWarBaby

“As a side note the south side of Chicago used to have the biggest feed yards in the country.”

I just watched the western Silverado (1870/1880??) and one of the characters said they worked in a feedlot in Chicago.


46 posted on 01/22/2022 5:25:09 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: AlaskaErik

My dad told a story about a lunch spot back in the ‘50s where he could get a Porterhouse and a salad for $1.50.


47 posted on 01/22/2022 5:47:47 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: wintertime
"This reads like something out of an Ayn Rand novel."

The daily news is starting to sound that way. Who is John Galt?... right before my eyes.

48 posted on 01/22/2022 7:28:30 PM PST by blam
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To: george76; Tilted Irish Kilt; Roman_War_Criminal; Diana in Wisconsin; Pollard; null and void

And it’s all going according to plan.


49 posted on 01/22/2022 7:56:02 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: no-to-illegals

These asshats hate humans. They want to starve, cancer, COVID or whatever they can do to get the planet down to 500,000,000 people.


50 posted on 01/22/2022 10:22:56 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: metmom; 4everontheRight; 4Liberty; 5thGenTexan; 45semi; 101stAirborneVet; 300winmag; ...
mwtmom :" And it’s all going according to plan."

The great RESET is a plan for lower expectations and lower delivery.
Thank you Klaus Schuab and the WEF.

51 posted on 01/23/2022 10:57:49 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: george76

And Canadian ranchers will sell their starving stock off for pennies on the dollar but grocery stores will double the price. It happened that way when TX had a drought a few years ago. Grocery prices should have reflected the reduced price at auction barns, but they doubled the price and it never went back down to “normal” after the drought and ranchers got their heads of stock back up.

Hmm, or maybe stop the stupid vax crap.


52 posted on 01/23/2022 11:41:38 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Veto!

Feedlots don’t have fields.


53 posted on 01/23/2022 11:44:22 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: george76

I worry for my neighbors. Most of them are conventional farmers, dependent on mass-produced fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, and feeds.


54 posted on 01/23/2022 12:08:43 PM PST by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: bgill

Driving down the highway in CA, I could smell the feedlots before I saw them. They were fenced in out in areas surrounded by fields.


55 posted on 01/23/2022 12:24:18 PM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness offends me)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Who you know are not going to be doing without themselves.


56 posted on 01/23/2022 12:26:44 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: BiglyCommentary

Animals can turn psychotic when they’re hungry. You don’t want to see a feedlot with tens of thousands of half-ton animals when they’re like that!

A better option would be to dilute the feed with more roughage, so the cattle still feel full. The digestive systems of cattle are pretty forgiving in that regard*. You could mix fine-ground sawdust in and it wouldn’t hurt them, as long as it wasn’t from a toxic species of tree like a yew.

They can also eat the chaff left from processing grain, the stalks from corn, I’ve even heard of them being fed shredded newspaper, although I wouldn’t recommend that last one.

(*Unlike, say, horses, whose digestive systems are a delicate balance on the best of days.)


57 posted on 01/23/2022 12:42:53 PM PST by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: OldWarBaby

bkmk


58 posted on 01/23/2022 12:44:15 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Ellendra

Good advice. But you’re right - leave out the newspapers. Colored ink is a no no...


59 posted on 01/23/2022 12:47:45 PM PST by GOPJ (Ukraine's a stunt and it's NOT OUR PROBLEM. America first - protect OUR borders ... )
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To: no-to-illegals

“Ethanol in fuel is more important …. Right ?“

Uninformed comment by a city person you just made.
There is plenty of corn around.
Corn yields have increased dramatically , there is plenty .
This issue sounds like a distribution issue.


60 posted on 01/23/2022 12:48:08 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clinton's )
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