Coffee anyone ?

[SageHill]

OMG, I had no idea. WOW that is freaking scary, makes me wonder about the rest of our food supply.

 

[fuzzi]

OMG, I had no idea. WOW that is freaking scary, makes me wonder about the rest of our food supply.

I've read enough in the last few years to wean myself off most processed foods, and am relying mostly on my own chickens' eggs, and local farms for meat and cheese. I started baking my own bread a couple months ago, too. If I can at least limit my intake of commercial food I suspect it would help improve my overall health.

 

[Blue Sky]

Beef News, new to you?

DEPORT JBS: The Cartel-Linked Meat Giant Hiding in Plain Sight

JBS bribed its way into American meatpacking, launders cartel-taxed cattle through Mexico, and now collects taxpayer cash to feed U.S. schools. Their IPO gives Wall Street access to a criminal enterprise built on foreign corruption, domestic child labor, and the destruction of independent...

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Attention RFK jr. School lunch programs, along with government food assistance are notorious for choosing questionable sources. I lived with my maternal grandmother in the ‘70s and she wouldn’t let me eat the government foods she got. Insisted I eat garden veggies and chicken and eggs she traded for. Also where I got my taste for mutton and lamb. British chef Jamie Oliver developed a plan to feed kids in the LA school system with mainly locally sourced healthy foods. He proved he could put better food on the tables and do it cheaper while helping small producers. Did the schools go for it? Nah.

 

[farmerjan]

JBS is as slippery and bad as has been portrayed. However, they have had the money to come in and take over so much... I am not sure how to fix this... closing the mexican border has been a godsend in this respect.
They buy cattle here local... mostly cull cows that go to slaughter... but I do not know who all some of the feeder cattle buyers sell to ... the takeover of the slaughter plants made every one beholding to big giant corps like this...covid BS made it worse..... and the whole thing with that lamb slaughter plant has happened over and over again... when you can't get the permits and things, or the "costs to upgrade" get so bad, the little guy cannot compete...

 

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. Find a grass fed rancher and buy your beef from him. Raise whatever you can.

 

[Mini Horses]

Our food system and regs are such that you have limits for buying off farm in many, many states. Milk & meats primarily. Then for many, the quantity becomes prohibitive. So it's a teeter-totter. The days of farm to farm help & winter butchering are pretty much gone. Yes, there are contamination concerns but, many personal decisions for buying have been suppressed. It can still be done, quietly for sure.

Even when you raise larger animals for yourself, those processors are getting harder to find. A couple have closed out in my area. Mainly because housing developments built up around them. Some of my neighbors would starve before butchering.

Soooo this morning!! Heavy fog. Like 100' sight. Clearing fast, suns up. Heat and rain wet grounds. I've had a nice few days at home, got several things done -- mowing wasn't one. gonna need to bale my yard soon.

 

[Weldman]

Going above 104°F today, but don't worry will be only high of low 60's tomorrow and the next day. Have to be careful to not overheat the equipment or myself.
Today is the day I pis s a rancher off, we have owned this one property for about 3 or 4 years that has the well on it and is the one that caught fire. Well there is a fence that is a few hundred feet off that got burned, but still standing on my property. Has been cut a few places to run a firebreak through it when we had that wildfire. Going to walk my excavator down there and start pulling T posts up and snapping the tree posts. Then I'm going to walk back and grab my loader and plow a driveway where the property line is that will also serve as a fire break.
Green arrows are where the fence is at and red is pretty close to the pins. Mind you this is 20 acre parcel and that southern fence line is where I’m putting the driveway of 1200’

 

[fuzzi]

Going above 104°F today, but don't worry will be only high of low 60's tomorrow and the next day. Have to be careful to not overheat the equipment or myself.
Today is the day I pis s a rancher off, we have owned this one property for about 3 or 4 years that has the well on it and is the one that caught fire. Well there is a fence that is a few hundred feet off that got burned, but still standing on my property. Has been cut a few places to run a firebreak through it when we had that wildfire. Going to walk my excavator down there and start pulling T posts up and snapping the tree posts. Then I'm going to walk back and grab my loader and plow a driveway where the property line is that will also serve as a fire break.
Green arrows are where the fence is at and red is pretty close to the pins. Mind you this is 20 acre parcel and that southern fence line is where I’m putting the driveway of 1200’


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Why will the rancher be upset? It's YOUR property.

 

[farmerjan]

Why will the rancher be upset? It's YOUR property.

Because the rancher is accustomed to the "old fence" and will be losing some grazing with the new property lines now being "enforced".

 

[Weldman]

Why will the rancher be upset? It's YOUR property.

Cause we are not from Montana and they don't like change. Fence has always been there for over half a century or longer, and 35 years ago a rancher sold a few squares that got broken up from 640 acres to 20 acre parcels, but no one ever contested the fence line till now. Just like the crazy lady who got mad I was fixing the road last year, they don't like change and they have ran the place to fit them if it required running people off. Never to benefit anyone so they could have it all to themselves. Well I'm here to right the wrongs and fight back for the community.