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  1. 3 minutes ago, Nolacycling said:

    In fairness, I googled and it is often identified as a myth, but while it's hard to prove something that didn't happen the most used reason was the NCAA didn't find anything, which isn't saying much. But I am calling bs on the hay bale thing or is it because they do hay in those round bundles now?

     

    Image result for baled hay

    Now most hay is rolled or big squares, but it wasn't through the 70's and 80's, along with a lot less active dairies and hog farms now.  The trick to lift 75lb idiot bricks all day was to use your legs, and the motion builds directly into what you would use for run blocking. You take that, and add pharmaceuticals and you've got yourself a running game.  Nebraska also has a deep sporting culture, especially for football, and wrestling, as well as volleyball, and that played into as well. For a long time, Nebraska had the highest percentage of eligible boys out for football, which helped to feed upon itself as well. 

  2. 3 minutes ago, Nolacycling said:

    yes, yes I do.

    Then explain why Terry Conneally was a full ride football scholarship from Grant Co. Nebraska population 746 instead of having a county scholarship. Same with Lance Lundberg from Wausa, and Dean Steinkuhler from Sterling. 

     

    The truth of the walk-on program is that the state actually used to support higher education and it was pretty cheap to go down to Lincoln and give it a shot. Couple that with steroids and the natural leverage developed by throwing square bales and you could crank develop linemen and fullbacks, especially when they would go unscouted by anybody else, because there wasn't film on dudes from Humboldt and Ansely.  There's a reason Hudl developed in Nebraska, because those folks knew how many kids were out there under the radar. 

  3. 15 hours ago, Nolacycling said:

    Sorry, if that's your team. They are classy, knowledgeable fans. My family are Iowans. The days of steroid freaks and county scholarships are long gone. I thought the move to the Big 10 would level the playing field for them in terms of team speed and skill position players, but it didn't. Good luck.

    You don't seriously believe the County Scholarship myth do you? 

  4. 33 minutes ago, mulletpelini said:

    How bout we get a hotel full of empty rooms as a contingency plan for Saturday night, you know, just in case.

    Converting the old hotel on East Campus to offices finally bit UNL in the ass.

  5. 6 minutes ago, Lagunamadre said:

    So how long would the Chinese tarrifs have to be in place in order for a material amount of capital to be invested into reorienting infrastructure?   

    A while, a lot of this stuff is pretty new, and a lot can still serve Japan and Korea etc

  6. 13 minutes ago, Lagunamadre said:

    Since this is your space, what are you thoughts on non-Chinese ag markets. Not only soy beans but any other products that are farmers are losing Chinese demand. Will there be enough demand from the rest of the world to replace the Chinese? If so, how long do you think that will take to normalize? 

    There should plenty of demand overall, the biggest issue is that the investment in logistics has been built in direction of China so, the shipping to new markets will make suboptimal use of our capacity and unless it looks like a permanent deal the cash won’t be spent to reorient it. The issue on corn is the same except replace China with Mexico. 

  7. 11 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    So what you're saying is that we shouldn't be giving $12 Billion in welfare to the farmers? I'm down with that. 

    Yes. By the time, they get around to doing anything on it, the market will probably be close to fully recovered anyway. 

  8. 6 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

    Not just an article. Refer to the trumpian automaton farmers in the above video.

     

    They want to fall on the sword for their leader, just like they would have if Obama started the trade war.

     

    They are so sincere.

     

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    And you could find a group of farmers to do a fuck Trump video. It wouldn't be hard at all. 

  9. So as someone who actually works with Family Farmers(along with backgrounding cattle myself) here and talks about grain and livestock marketing in the national media from time to time, I think a lot of the dire predictions are pretty heavily overstated. We had prices at levels that worked for most guys through June. Coming forward the world feed grain stocks are significantly tighter, and we've seen a pretty strong rally the last couple of weeks, as we build that in, along with the potential for a poor finish to the crop year, all which could pretty easily put Ag commodity values back to new highs for the year into fall. 

    Are the tariffs great, No, but demand is still pretty strong, and if money is there to get made it will get made. We will likely see soybeans run through Vietnam or some other Asian county to dodge tariffs. (We've seen that with distillers grains in the past), along with logistics reshuffling. The biggest threat is that a prolonged trade war collapses demand, which can't be worked around. 

     

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  10. A couple weeks ago, my Uncle passed away after a 10 month battle with colon cancer. He died during the local county fair, which was his favorite thing in the world. He was a past Fair Board President, and ran the beef and sheep shows. At the premium auction, a pair of sisters donated the premiums from their steers to start a fund to send kids to 4-H campus, which led to a wave of donations from the crowd so they went from 0 to 4K spontaneously. I was blown away when I heard the story. Longer version at the link.

     

    https://mtouch.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1057771257727364&id=200767540094411&ref=m_notif&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic

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  11. 28 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

     

    It’s amazing how he only ever thinks in binary terms. If you are subsidizing the farms for China trade, you’re subsidizing them vs. the EU too.

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