Buy Your Beef NOW

[BIGNASTY]

If you have a place to store the beef, ya might want to make the investment now, this winter has been hard on Beef with around 100 K cattle deaths due to freezing, this WILL be reason to make beef prices SKYROCKET!!

BIG

PS FIL said it would be a GREAT time to look at different things in the Market with this happening!!!

 

[Woodenhead]

Good tip!

Got half going in the freezer at end of month. Will get us through at least a year. Got a buddy that raises Angus and hand picks a few to finish out for friends/family.

 

[DonFitzwater]

I'll shoot another moose...................................no change for me! :-laf

 

[BIGNASTY]

Good tip!

Got half going in the freezer at end of month. Will get us through at least a year. Got a buddy that raises Angus and hand picks a few to finish out for friends/family.

Your a smart man!! for raising your own animals, I just don't like the taste of store bought meat.( beef, pork, chicken) especially with the things that they feed them for market animals. The FDA said its ok and we all know that they don't lie!! or aren't on a payoff list of somebody's political agenda. They say that the feet falling off of animals because of some growth hormone that they are fed IS OK FOR US TO EAT???

I don't think that anyone wants to know what they do to Pigs and Chickens!!

Same goes for the milk production to increase they feed something to make them produce more and longer, it all intern goes into what we eat in cheese, milk
Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rbGH) dairy cows that use this have a higher rate of udder infections that are treated with antibiotics we all know that they are good for us, most of Europe has ban the use of these hormones and yet our FDA insists there's not a thing wrong with them. And this is with a 60% increase in cancer in the U.S.over the next 20 years. But their proud of the fact that there has been a 20% decrease in smoking cancers at $5.00 a pack I wonder why?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013...k-cattle-special-report-idUSBRE9BT0NV20131230

http://www.med.nyu.edu/content?ChunkIID=90869

 

[Woodenhead]

Your a smart man!! for raising your own animals, I just don't like the taste of store bought meat.( beef, pork, chicken) especially with the things that they feed them for market animals. The FDA said its ok and we all know that they don't lie!! or aren't on a payoff list of somebody's political agenda. They say that the feet falling off of animals because of some growth hormone that they are fed IS OK FOR US TO EAT???

I don't think that anyone wants to know what they do to Pigs and Chickens!!

Same goes for the milk production to increase they feed something to make them produce more and longer, it all intern goes into what we eat in cheese, milk
Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rbGH) dairy cows that use this have a higher rate of udder infections that are treated with antibiotics we all know that they are good for us, most of Europe has ban the use of these hormones and yet our FDA insists there's not a thing wrong with them. And this is with a 60% increase in cancer in the U.S.over the next 20 years. But their proud of the fact that there has been a 20% decrease in smoking cancers at $5.00 a pack I wonder why?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013...k-cattle-special-report-idUSBRE9BT0NV20131230

http://www.med.nyu.edu/content?ChunkIID=90869

10-4 Big. I don't get too stressed about it but would much rather know where it's coming from and what's gone into it. That being said I've had to buy beef at the store for a couple months while we wait for this one to finish out and it'll be nice to get some good beef going again. A pig will go in the freezer next, can't beat the butchers bacon and hams .

 

[BIGNASTY]

Not much to get up about, things wont change in our lifetime. I look toward our Grandson and now with his parents expecting again and our Daughter expecting her first. I would like to think that we can leave SOMETHING worth having in this place.

One of the greatest experiences of living like we do, is having a front row center seat to see the beauty and bounty of whats been given to us. But all the time knowing that we are just a pimple on the A** of Mother Nature. We think with all the knowledge that we have we can accomplish and change anything to make it better, when in reality we are powerless. We have become a people of fast EVERYTHING, there's a reason I think that it takes animals time to grow to a certain size and by having the ability to change this, it intern changes something else, sometimes good and sometimes bad.

Its even gotten into our grain and vegetable food sources with GMO foods we have taken what was put on earth and changed the very DNA of it, why? speed of growth and intern profit and along with this the true taste of the food is lost. Penny and I get a kick out of having so called city dwellers come to our place. Its not a fault of theirs its just the way our world has gone. But they spend the day out seeing what this part of the world looks like, work up an appetite and when they sit down at our table for a meal they exclaim how much better things seem to taste and don't understand why their corn on the cob don't taste as sweet, the tomato's aren't as red and full of taste and these steaks are to die for, we think that has all been taken out of them for the sake of putting more cheap food on the table no matter what it tastes like.

The processing part of foods make me laugh. Read the label of things enhanced this, artificial that, modified this, dyes and a list of ingredients that are in something as simple as mustard!!! and at the end of the label it says to enhance the flavor!! Really wonder what it would taste like naturally? JMO



BIG

 

[Missouri Mule]

Don't know about meat but when it comes to corn depends how far it is shipped, stored and kept. Super Markets usually buy and sell gassed tomatoes for shelf life.

If you want good tasting fruit and vegetables shop at a Produce Stand (open air) or Produce Market (indoors). Corn that is sweet and Vine Ripe Tomatoes that taste like a tomatoes should (unfortunately Vine Ripen Tomatoes don't have to much shelf life plus FDA and Ag department wants tomatoes put thru a antibacterial bath which bruises tomatoes that are to red or at least in Florida they do).

 

[Gonzo 1066]

How our (USA) beef is handled in the packing plant has more impact on the texture and flavor

 

[Gonzo 1066]

How our (USA) beef is handled in the packing plant has more impact on the texture and flavor than how or what the animal is fed. When I was on the farm with dad (50 years ago,then farming on my own) a cow was hung in the cooler after slaughter for up to a month.. This hanging of the carcass allowed the muscle to relax and drain both blood and adrenaline out of the meat. The practice of hanging in the cooler to cure had been practiced for many many years. Because of the cost of refrigeration and the space it takes to cure the halves, this practice has been discontinued by large processors. ALL of the large packing plants now "hot box" the rough cut meat, that is the large cuts are boxed hot and frozen very quickly. Not even hung in the cooler at all. When you see a hugh plant like the old Monfort plant in Greeley Colorado processing thousands of head per day, they all go directly to waiting semi reefer trailers to be hauled to your super market. That slightly metalic taste is the steak or hamburger is NOT necessarily how the cow was fed. It is how it was processed. The worry about antibiotics is less relevant than it was 20 years ago, the FDA has clamped down HARD on the practice of therapeutic feeding of antibiotics. My own thoughts are more along the lines of the amount of beef we eat due to the fat content.

PS this is not information I googled from the interweb, this is from direct farming experience, both in dairy and with a beef feedlot. I also went with my slaughter beef to the plant.




Also the price of beef in your supermarket has been on the rise for some time now, due to the impact of very low dairy commodity prices. This has lead to liquidation of MANY dairy cows, these cows are processed for meat and are a direct competition for beef cows. The impact of continued liquidation of dairy cows lowered the prices paid for all slaughter cows. Because beef herds take a long time to build, this had a major impact on total cow,cow-calf numbers. Thus in a 4-5 year period the shortage of feeder calves took a huge dive in numbers. This set a perfect stage for the rise in beef prices, both live and in the store.