Eld exemption for livestock and agricultural commodities extended to June 18

Haha kill hopper rates they're already dead most farmers are hauling they're own grain just to keep help on in the off months

 

I see your point. I wasn't aware they get moved around a handful of times before getting to the kill house.

My point is the same. Even if you multiply the 2.5 cents by 10 you're at .25 per pound. The consumer will pay more or consume less. How is it any different from any other increase in price? I think the only difference you will see is more people buying whatever is on sale rather than what they had in mind. Is the rancher also on such a thin margin he would not make it? I think if they were forced to figure it out. This is what would happen.

 

Is the rancher on such a thin margins? Yea one bad year has knocked more than one small rancher out of the game and by small I'm talking a 300 cow calf pair guy

 

Just like every business there are big players in the cattle game that own multiple ranches and run tens of thousands of heads of cattle that would be able to absorb it. It would be the family farm that would take the hit, and then the big guys would come buy their land and the big guys would get bigger and land prices would artificially inflate.

My brother, who still hauls livestock, shares your opinion. He doesn’t see the point in dragging this out. The other day he goes “we just need to get them in the trucks and let the ****show sort itself out over the next year”. I tend to agree because I do think they’re coming for everyone eventually.

 

I’m only speaking towards the livestock part of it. I’m not familiar with the hopper industry at all.

 

Well. Maybe I'm different. I buy my beef from a local guy and have it butchered how I want it. Sucks the corporate world has made it so the little guy (who makes the entire process possible) is often left with little to nothing.

 

I don't know maybe it isn't as bad as it seems but 1.60 a mile will

Well you go to any city they're not going to actually go to the farmer and buy a cow and bring it to be butchered but yes that's the way to do it or even better is raise your own grassfed

 

Well I don't move it around myself. They do all that for me. Not sure I could get one in my ride. And I'm not walking it there on a leash. I can see the farm where they live from the road. Lots of people where I live do the same thing. Works good all the way around.
This is my luxury cruiser. Lol

 

It rides better than any of the new buicks or caddis i guarantee that

 

I bought it 2 years ago. It was going to be a new f150 or mustang .... got to playing around on auto trader and found this for a good price. All it needed was a radiator and front brake lines/calipers and a battery. And I really like riding around town in it. Even at 14 mpg or whatever it gets. Not much. I have a someday plan to rebuild the entire thing with a new engine. It's current one is what it was made with. 4.1 v8 and makes maybe 150 horse. I'd like it to go a bit better than it does. Someday.