[Wonder Warthog]

"It is tough right now down on actual functioning real farms-- not play ones the libs fantasize about "local" food. The real ranchers and farmers."

I grew up on a farm, and my brother farmed for years. I'm calling "bullshit" on this. If they are getting ready to "euthanize" any animals, then they are a feedlot operation and NOT a farm or ranch.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Someone called into our local talker a few days ago and said it was the processing plants that were the problem. He was a farmer. Wish I’d recorded the convo.

[John S Mosby]

Call it all you want. Will post more than this one— it is the feed lots, and also the “feeders” from the ranches.

All past tense. Not how it is today, as a result of “green, sustainable” New Deal FAKE A@@ farmers, and, for that matter, the feed lot owners playing along for the “goodies” cookies.

[A Navy Vet]

"then they are a feedlot operation and NOT a farm or ranch."

There are some 26,000 beef feedlots around the country. I would include any swine, chicken, sheep, turkey lots that are not free grazing. But then, what do I know about raising livestock? Nothing, other then what I just researched.

[tiki]

I actually typed what you posted and then decided to read the comments before I posted.

Cattle dont rot like lettuce in a field, they may get past optimum weight and incur more feed costs but it would take some really long-term, extremely low prices to make you kill them and get nothng for them.

Also, unlike produce that costs oodles to harvest where you would actually lose hundreds of dollars an acre more if harvested and marketed, you just out cattle on a truck.

[onona]

I grew up on a farm, and my brother farmed for years. I'm calling "bullshit" on this. If they are getting ready to "euthanize" any animals, then they are a feedlot operation and NOT a farm or ranch.

BINGO. This smells like bovine excrement.

[Balding_Eagle]

I grew up on a farm, and my brother farmed for years. I'm calling "bullshit" on this.

I grew up on a farm, and when I started farming I raised hogs.

Before I sold I had raised over a quarter million hogs.

I still know a lot of people in the livestock business.

You can call bullshit all you want, it will make you feel better.

But this is really happening.

Some hog packing plants are open only to kill market hogs. There aren't enough workers to cut them up.

From there the whole hogs get buried.

[Macoozie]

“. If they are getting ready to “euthanize” any animals, then they are a feedlot operation and NOT a farm or ranch.”

Agreed.

I’ve been thinking the same thing.

[ClayinVA]

That is my thinking too, send them back out to pasture for a while. Look at thinning the herd around September.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Agree ranchers are not killing cattle that are out on the range. Thats just BS.

[PrairieLady2]

I agree. My SIL was pulling cedars this weekend.