Category: Cattle Buisness

The big Texas cattle feeders might be helping <a href="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3319609">launder drug money</a>. I have no love for the Texas feeders that bring Mexican cattle into the US and sell them as a US product but I am sure they had no idea they were laundering drug money. If the justice Department starts seizing cattle it…

<a href="http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=reutersEdge&storyID=2005-08-20T190838Z_01_N20424197_RTRIDST_0_PICKS-MADCOW-MONTANA-DC.XML"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> 'bunch of stooges'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>"A few years ago, the four big meat companies, they expanded their role in this country. They bought a U.S. company called the United States Department of Agriculture," Montana <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> said in…

I have been following the whole <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2005/08/11/build/state/25-animal-disease.inc">vesicular stomatitis</a> outbreak with some trepidation not knowing where it's going to go. If they start quarantining the state as shipping is coming up what affects will it have on ranches that ship there cattle out of state? Not good I guarantee. Some good news might be that…

Is the Federal government striking back at Montana? <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/10/build/state/30-usda-group.inc">Some think so</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Rick Parks, an investigator for the Government Accountability Project, a private organization that represents "whistle-blowers," said he has been working the past two years with small, federally inspected plants in the state that believe they have been targeted or held to higher…

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/08/build/wyoming/71-high-rancher-prices.inc">This</a> is only true if you buy cows instead of raise your own and you believe the drought is over. I don't mind the higher prices since I raise my own replacements instead of buying them. I get a better quality product that way.<br />n<br />nI could run 25% more cows than I am…

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/26/build/opinion/35-guest-opinion-pro.inc">Lynn Cornwell really needs to wake up and smell the cow shit</a>. Does <s>she</s> he really think that these poor Central American countries can afford to import our high quality beef we produce in the US. Maybe, but I kind of ******* doubt it.<br />n<br />nIt's the old strategy of divide and conquer. The…

Well, no surprise <a href="http://www.agriculture.com/ag/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ag/story/data/agNews_050608crCOOLdl.xml&catref=ag1001">here</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Shortly after 5:30 Eastern Daylight Time today (06/08/2005) the House voted against the Rehberg amendment, 240 against, 187 for. That leaves the House Agricultural Appropriations Bill unchanged, so <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> funding for <acronym title="Country of Origin…

Recently the Supreme Court ruled the Beef Checkoff Constitutional which <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/970-Beef-Checkoff.html">I talked about</a> some. I came across <a href="http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?SectionID=67&SubSectionID=782&ArticleID=17611&TM=29005.88">H. Clay Daulton opinions</a> on this and it makes me laugh.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Within hours after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the national Beef Checkoff constitutional, H. Clay Daulton sat down at his computer and tapped out…

A brief history of R-CALF and the work it does and what it believes in can be found in <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/31/build/state/25-rcalf.inc">todays gazette</a>. I've had people ask me about them and this provides some good information.<br />n<br />n<b>Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts…

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/23/build/nation/30-beefcheckoff.inc">High Court rules beef checkoff constitutional</a><br />n<br />nOk, call me naive but I really am surprised by this ruling. The whole lawsuit was based on the fact that as beef producers we are required to fund a "message" sponsored by the Government whether we agree with it or not. This sounds like a violation…