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Another beef rancher says goodbye
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:54 am
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:54 am
I like to source our beef from small family ranchers who produce clean meat at fair prices. Sadly, one of our providers is saying goodbye and exiting the market, victim of through-the-ceiling inflation and other input unsustainable price increases. Our sourcing options are getting fewer and fewer, with prices going through the roof. The ol' supply and demand rules of economics.
Here is an excerpt from their farewell letter to their customers:
'Dear
The last four years have been such a gift to us in the form of wonderful customers and the fulfillment of being able to share our livelihood and beef with you.
You've been with us through COVID, cancer, and navigating life after the two. We have loved providing your families with delicious, well-raised beef while thanking God for your support and praying for your well-being with each boxed packed!
With input prices continually on the rise, and our time being directed to more activities as the Fisk and Lee kids get older, we have decided to re-focus our time and energy back within the walls of our home for now. '
Where will it end?!?! Drastic changes are needed, and we all know where and with whom they start.
LINK /
Here is an excerpt from their farewell letter to their customers:
'Dear
The last four years have been such a gift to us in the form of wonderful customers and the fulfillment of being able to share our livelihood and beef with you.
You've been with us through COVID, cancer, and navigating life after the two. We have loved providing your families with delicious, well-raised beef while thanking God for your support and praying for your well-being with each boxed packed!
With input prices continually on the rise, and our time being directed to more activities as the Fisk and Lee kids get older, we have decided to re-focus our time and energy back within the walls of our home for now. '
Where will it end?!?! Drastic changes are needed, and we all know where and with whom they start.
LINK /
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Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:56 am to conservativewifeymom
Farmland and ranches will continue to be bought by corporations and foreign entities until someone puts a stop to it. Foreign persons or companies should be restricted from buying active farmland.
Another country controlling our food supply is bad news
Another country controlling our food supply is bad news
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:58 am to The Pirate King
They’ll be purchased by the government.
The government in control of food supply is also bad news.
The government in control of food supply is also bad news.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:00 pm to conservativewifeymom
quote:
Drastic changes are needed, and we all know where and with whom they start.
Fiscal bills originate in the House - which has been led by Republicans for 22 of the last 30 years.
If the Republicans won't get our fiscal shite in order, no one else will. They seemed disinclined to.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:02 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
quote:
Fiscal bills originate in the House - which has been led by Republicans for 22 of the last 30 years
Last actual budget was 2008 (with 2009 "emergency supplement").
EVERY frickING CR SINCE HAS BEEN BASED ON THAT BUDGET
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:04 pm to conservativewifeymom
I know several cattle farmers and they’re making a killing right now
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:05 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
Exactly.
We sit around here for years bashing dem potus, screaming at the sky as it were.
In the meantime, congress is was and will be the problem. So hurray of Trump is elected, but it will mean very very little without change in congress.
We sit around here for years bashing dem potus, screaming at the sky as it were.
In the meantime, congress is was and will be the problem. So hurray of Trump is elected, but it will mean very very little without change in congress.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:06 pm to udtiger
quote:
EVERY frickING CR SINCE HAS BEEN BASED ON THAT BUDGET
Why is that, do you suppose?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:10 pm to conservativewifeymom
quote:
The last four years
Sounds like the opportunity wasnt what they thought it would be
My beef supplier is currently expanding, and growing a customer base
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:11 pm to LSUnation78
quote:
We sit around here for years bashing dem potus, screaming at the sky as it were.
They've got us distracted arguing about wokeness, immigration, Ukraine, Gaza, Putin, football, etc... while year after year nothing is done about what really matters - getting our fiscal shite together.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:17 pm to conservativewifeymom
Hmmmm..wonder why Bill Gates has purchased 270k acres of farmable land, ~70k in Louisiana
Bill Gates owns 67k acres in La
Bill Gates owns 67k acres in La
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:23 pm to deltaland
quote:
I know several cattle farmers and they’re servicing crippling debt with inflated dollars right now
FIFY for anyone who didn't inherit their operation, or even those who did and were proactive and wished to build upon what they were given.
Of course, they're also paying an extra 15.3% self employment tax on top of their normal tax rate (which they only get to deduct half of as an expense since they are both employee and employer).
Makes no sense. You tax what you want less of. Right now, that's hardworking people earning a living self-employed. They want you working for the big corporations. They want you blindly contributing to 401k plans that prop up the market. They want you to provide capital by fixing the rates you pay in taxes on capital gains, and making them progressive on how much you earn through skill and risk.
Labor and effort are not valued in America at the same level as capital. That's likely because the laws are created by the ones with their fingers in the pot.
We need to incentivize self employment and entrepreneurs/innovators, not penalize them.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:25 pm to RobbBobb
I would love it if you would share who your beef supplier is. Another source for us is in UT and shipping is prohibitive, so I need some alternatives.
Many thanks!
Many thanks!
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:27 pm to SWCBonfire
quote:
We need to incentivize self employment and entrepreneurs/innovators, not penalize them.
The government does not want more people capable of sustaining themselves... The entire system is built around more people needing the government...
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:49 pm to SWCBonfire
quote:
Labor and effort are not valued in America at the same level as capital.
Welcome to Capitalism.
If you're looking for where labor is in charge, find a communist country.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:07 pm to blueboxer1119
quote:
They’ll be purchased by the government. The government in control of food supply is also bad news.
It’s why Cory Booker is always introducing farm bills. Redistribution of farmland is the ultimate goal.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:13 pm to conservativewifeymom
I have some cattle and I always will. But my little cow-calf operation has gone from turning a modest profit into being a net loser.
I'm not that bent about it because I mainly do it because I want to and for ag tax benefits and a Schedule F.
I'm not that bent about it because I mainly do it because I want to and for ag tax benefits and a Schedule F.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:30 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
quote:
Fiscal bills originate in the House - which has been led by Republicans for 22 of the last 30 years.
Okay, but the democrats also led the house for part of Bush's term, a good bit of Obama’s terms, the second half of Trump’s term and the first half of Biden’s term.
Any blame for them? Or is that (D)iffrent?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:34 pm to FredBear
Democrats and Republicans. My team vs your team.
What a bunch of shite. I despise both parties and will never be a member of a fricking thing the rest of my life.
What a bunch of shite. I despise both parties and will never be a member of a fricking thing the rest of my life.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:34 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
quote:Ahving the majority != having power. Democrats run DC
Fiscal bills originate in the House - which has been led by Republicans for 22 of the last 30 years.
quote:Given the American people L O V E government spending, expecting a party to against the voters wishes is silly. Why do democrats not have a burden to fix our fiscal situation?
If the Republicans won't get our fiscal shite in order, no one else will. They seemed disinclined to.
The reality is the voters have no appetite for real meaningful cuts. Campaign on cutting SS and Medicare and see how far you get.
This post was edited on 2/14/24 at 2:35 pm
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