The Rumors Are True

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We have a guy who specializes in repairing certain computer controlled equipment we call in occasionally who then drives all the way from Idaho to Vancouver Wa.

It’s pretty specialized stuff, has been around for quite a while and he used to work for the company that made it so he pretty much knows it inside and out.

While we were all taking a break and standing around this afternoon, he mentioned that he has two brothers who both own ranches and run cattle.

He said BOTH OF THEM are selling off the majority of their herds because they can’t find or afford feed for them.

That is happening everywhere.

Have you noticed the price and availability of Beef lately?

By this time next year you are going to pay out the nose for what you can even find.

If you have a large freezer, now would be a good time to fill that sucker up.

28 thoughts on “The Rumors Are True”

  1. Yep. The bottom has fell out of the beef market here in TX as well. Ranchers are selling off their herds FAST. All the more reason to fill your deep freeze this Deer Season, not to mention Wild Pork Sausage from all the feral hogs we got here. And oh yeah, don’t forget to plant a garden or two. It’s a no brainer.

  2. Love me some beef so I’m stocking the freezers as I find it at reasonable prices. Also hoping for a couple of deer this season.

    I read that there may be a shortage of turkeys for the holidays. I’m not broken hearted about that, I cook them but don’t eat them. Have several hams in the freezer as a backup plan. They will be cooked sans the pineapple rings adorning the carcass, that’s as bad as pineapple on pizza.

    Guessing all those wild chickens that inhabit Key West, Florida will meet their demise as food becomes more scarce.

    Keep prepping.

      • CederQ has 5000 shares in pineapple stock and is making out like a bandit every time he says they wonderful on anything. or,, he in love with the damn things ever since a stint on the islands ?
        other than that, I have no idea why he likes the damn stuff.

      • Nope. Never. We can agree to disagree. But I would certainly serve you ham or pizza with pineapple,
        I aim to please. 🤮🤢

        • Miss Sandy, don’t you ever quote me, but Cederq is dead right, on this anyway. You’d never encounter the fresh fruit from Queensland, given the amount grown in the US and Mexico, but I recall picking up half-tonne bins and cartons from a Mossman pineapple farm. At smoko, the workers didn’t bother with meat pies or sandwiches, but simply sliced into the ripe fruit, pigging out with the grower’s consent. Rather than being tpp acidic, having a gutful of the flesh, it’d put a diabetic into hyperglycaemia, you could see the fructose crystals forming on a knife blade if it was still for a few minutes, beautiful!

            • Sandy, women tend to waste much of the fruit, by avoiding the core when cutting the fruit up. If people are such woosies, they should retain the core for flavour in their cooking, or as.a component of their alcoholic compounds or summer squashs. But real men just chew it.

  3. Son in law just dropped a 7×7 Bull elk..

    He has around 400 pounds of edible meat, so I arranged a trade with him. I have lots of chickens(eggs), and freezer storage.

    We’re all good…

    • I not only heard that but even being around a vaxxed person, they are shedding it and transferring it to the unvaccinated.

      • I avoid them if possible, Deathray. That will become easier, as the poisoned Vaxxheads die off at a quicker rate. You’re right, shedding those protein spikes is a real issue.
        Even as important, is the problem that stocks of whole blood and blood-derived products are contaminated with the poison. If you’re in a car prang or some other accident, you might need a transfusion of blood.
        So unless you’re wealthy enough to afford one of those private blood banks for your family’s stocks alone, you or your kiddies are going to be poisoned.

        The Great Reset cannot come too soon, we have to rid the world of The Elite and their hangers-on. It’s really too bad that all the Vaxxers will die, but except for the kids, they chose to put that needle in their arm.

  5. I got 3 Herford cows all pregnant from a selloff from Indiana. I’m in Alabama. And I don’t need to buy a new freezer. However, the dry spell has moved here and my fall grass isn’t growing. I may not have been so smart afterall.

    • More than likely the rain will come and you’ll have some grass. Some of our friends sold off some cows mid to late summer as they didn’t think they’d have enough hay to carry them through the winter. The prices at the livestock markets are not indicative of the prices at the grocery store. Steers averaging 575 lbs. were bringing $1.53 (avg.) last week. Heifers were a little less. At my local grocery store Ribeye’s are app. $11.00 per pound. Ground Chuck was on sale for $3.19 and ground beef is a little less than $3. Here in northwest Alabama, we hit the rains just right (as many in our area did) and have plenty of hay to make it through the winter. Hay here is around $25 per roll while out in parts of TX a month ago or so it was $60 per. That is one of the reasons for the “sell offs” and lower prices to farmer (low demand). The feed lots and mainly the packing houses control the prices we see at the store. Then there is the inflation aspect that is affecting everything.

  6. Invest in generator & several weeks fuel while filling those freezers. Florida is looking at 2 weeks to restoration of power. A lady in canada has been 11 days without power, and they are telling her “end of Oct.” 3 freezers full of rotten meat to no longer feed the dogs she takes care of. No power for her well, so is daily transporting water to feed the animals.
    Seed potato harvest is usually done by now. Yield is off 40%, & certain varieties are not setting skin. They have 200 acres to dig (of 1,000). If the skins won’t set, they will go to processor instead of next years seed.
    Corn silage usually yield 22-25 ton per acre. 16 ton this year on May planted.
    People who didn’t get planted until June look better standing, but the kernels have not set yet, so may have lower energy feed values.

  7. I was just in the store yesterday and saw nothing resembling this. There were some decent prices on pork, but regular old cheapo 80/20 ground was going for 7.99. 90/10 ground chuck 9.99. Since my larder is down to just one freezer and two fridge/freezers, I put my name in at three different local ranchers. One will be slaughtering end of October, and I should have all my freezers full before snow flies.

    • I know what you mean. We only have five grocery stores in the county that sell fresh meat. Somehow they keep their prices low. We never buy meat anywhere but here. I can go to stores in Huntsville or Birmingham and am always shocked at the prices. It is the same at SAM’s Club, WalMart Supercenters, (same folks) Publix, etc. and they are priced high too. We bought nearly three lbs. of ground beef and it was right around nine bucks. Buying beef on the hoof isn’t a problem here, but getting a spot at a slaughterhouse is a chore. The last time I checked to have a hog slaughtered, there was almost a year wait.

  8. I’ve not seen the price of Beef; I don’t even know him. I have noticed the price of beef, though.

  9. I can only visit butchers who have a defibrillator on site, given my reaction to the prices asked! ‘Sticker shock’ is a big thing with me, I can’t help it. Apart from naturally being a tightarse, I’m skint, being just a pensioner.
    Given that some select animals are bringing $10.00 kg •on-farm prices•, cattle-duffing, always an issue for me QPS’s Stock Squad, will just increase. To me, it’s amazing, given the loss value of even a single animal, that some stations are still unfenced alongside highways and main roads. Though the law is always on the landholders side, collecting money from a motorist is another matter, following a collision between beast and vehicle.

    • Is Wallabies and kangaroo still cheap? What about salt water crocs? We eat alligator in the South, kinda chewy though….

      • Cederq, but you eat wallaby and ‘roo meat all the time! Oh, that’s right, I forgot I wasn’t supposed to let on. Don’t worry, but, it’s very good for you. Just make sure that it’s well cooked to kill any zoosmosis diseases.
        All those wankers that insist they know best and barely singe the surface of steak, deserve every parasite that infest their gastrointestinal tract,brain or liver, the dopey fucks.

  10. I purchased a couple of strip steaks last week at 7.99/lb. When I grilled them to medium doneness and took the first bite, I understood why they were so inexpensive. That cow must have been near its expiration date when it was slaughtered or it walked 1000 miles to the slaughter house.

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