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Royalfan5

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  1. I’m just going to note that a large percentage of the laid off workers likely aren’t eligible to vote.
  2. I’ll note this town is 60% Hispanic population now too, with a significant African refugee community as well.
  3. Yes and they are losing their asses on the ones they get bought
  4. Tyson is closing the Lexington NE plant January 1st. Call it 3.5% of daily US capacity. Losing 3k direct jobs in a community of 10K. (A town that had doubled in size since the plant opened in 1990)
  5. A local locker can probably handle them, but not very fast.
  6. You will literally bend the the chain and hook line the animal goes down to be disassembled. The animal is gaining everyday under full feed, and guys really started to see dollar signs and went for it. Flip side is the packers paid up to keep going which encouraged them, and then didn't get all the meat moved as we came out of summer demand and now have to move a perishable product into ham and turkey holidays.
  7. It always warms my heart to see red cattle, as someone who grew up around a lot of red Gelbvieh before the Balancer stuff really took off.
  8. Hearing a lot of chatter this week that some feeders dug in their heels a little too much on selling and now we got some 1800-1900 pound steers that won't fit a packing line. That being said we might run 600K through this week which will be the biggest week in awhile so will see if the lots can get current, and the packers can move enough beef to get current.
  9. Amazon legitimately did a great job with their small NASCAR package, but getting beyond that seems to be too much for them
  10. Very much like when the county I'm from notably railroaded some people for a murder they didn't commit, then lost the lawsuit, and in the meantime dropped their insurance so the tax payers had to eat the full deal.
  11. The futures market continues to be nuts, locking limit higher across the board, 2 days after putting in fresh lows for the move, and after a sharp down move in early action. We are almost back to cash so maybe it calms down there.
  12. As I tell my wife, pork producers pay me too, and there is a lot of bang for your buck in pork shoulder and such if you know what you are doing
  13. independent egg farmers don’t exist as any sort of factor in the mass egg market. It’s contract or corporate production all the way down. So there’s no one there to bitch.
  14. I 100% believe that the bachelor farmer that was my Maternal Grandfather’s best friend haunts his old farmstead. Probably still out wandering around looking for arrowheads by the creek or trying to chase snakes out of the dirt basement
  15. I watched Nebraska win a football last Saturday if that counts.
  16. As more of a northern plains guys, it reduces the chances on train wrecks in shitty weather. Probably matters less for the southern plains guys.
  17. I think as an industry everyone calves 4 to 8 weeks later than they did 10-15 years ago. Don't have guys bitch near as much about health problems as they used to either. Feel like it's connected
  18. We are into the seasonal peak of pork production right now. (It's why this is usually McRib time of year) and bird flu isn't rolling for the season yet. Also biology allows you to ramp production so much faster, and we have some slack packing capacity in both.
  19. Still historically high at least. Next falls calves I would worry about though. Will have to see what they say about reopening the border this week.
  20. With all the political stuff futures have been a mess with 4 limit lower moves in 7 sessions in feeders includes expanded limit lower today to put us about 10% lower in that time frame. Meanwhile boxed beef is up about 3%
  21. I wanted a spot to note my niece finished 3rd in Wyoming 2A state Cross Country as a freshman.
  22. Caught another wave of buying to take fats and feeders back to all time highs despite up front softness in live cattle.
  23. Isn't Arizona a big failson/daughter school?
  24. That's what the he was asking about.
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