CTH
At the core of the issue are energy prices which continue to rise. The immediate cycle of energy price hikes, a direct consequence of political policy, has lessened somewhat and we are now in that slow tick upward as the pressure on oil, gas, heating and electricity prices continues.
Michael Burry, famous for his predictions in/around the U.S. housing market, is noticing the same thing as CTH. “Inflation peaked. But it is not the last peak of this cycle,” he said. “We are likely to see CPI lower, possibly negative in 2H 2023, and the US in recession by any definition. Fed will cut and government will stimulate. And we will have another inflation spike. It’s not hard.” Hard to Swallow
By design. This is just the left’s latest version of the Holodomor. History repeats, the methods vary but the motivation does not. Increasing innocent human suffering, misery and death is why the progressive movement exists. Everyone who supports the progressive movement is complicit. There is no possibility of any of them being well intended, but misguided at this point. There is too much history documenting where their agenda always and invariably ultimately leads for that.
Diesel remains $5. Shitpants ain’t a voodoo priest.
No worries. It won’t inflate forever.
Eventually you will be unable to get food at ANY price.
It will be on purpose too.
Starvation is a busy Communist’s government’s favorite go-to.
A great way to weaken, then eliminate, entire populations they consider ‘troublesome’
Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it,
But those of us who DO remember history are ignored and actively silenced by those whe DON’T, and will be until it’s too late.
It’s just one more year of food inflation to flatten the curve.
If you so ain’t stavin’ or need consumer goods why would you ever need the “mark of the beast” to enter and participate in the market place?
Planned scarcity is a tool to manipulate and force compliance, this is being driven by Gates, Soros, Schwab, and Satan. BOHICA!
It’s not just our food, dog food and livestock feed is at prices I’ve never seen. Hay is through the roof this year what little is to be had. For those of us that didn’t buy it early are paying double or triple the cost when they can find it.
Normally that means an increase at the stockyards, but it’s not now, instead the price is going down, which means more ranchers and farmers out of business.
Another hit for ranchers/farmers in 2023 is OTC antibiotics. Now you have a sick animal, you will have to get a prescription and guess what the prescription is triple the cost of OTC. If you ever have to pull an animal the vet and every rancher knows you give an antibiotic to prevent infection, now many animals will probably die because on such a slim margin, you have to way the costs and risks. Some vets will be cool and just see an animal or farm once and then will write out the prescriptions, many though will want that farm call and that money from the antibiotic.
We’ve already made the decision we’re cutting way back this spring when babies hit the ground. We’ll probably lose money, but we have to weigh how much will we lose come next winter?
weigh not way
Asking the nice Farming Lady, a quick search shows various methods to make your own antibiotics. Your new born calf is valued at over $100, plus all the effort you went through taking care of the cow all those months.
It must be worth some effort to save the little beastie.
My Buddies grandma earned $25.25 giving BJ’s at the Dem. convention. When asked who gave her the 25 cents, she replied: “All of them”.
LasVegasBrad there’s lots of stuff on the internet, not much works as advertised though. It depends on the infection, uterine infection there are no old time ways I’ve found to work. The calf is not the biggest worry, it’s the mama cow, goat, sheep, etc.
Actually with a newborn animal probiotics work the best along with something for energy unless they get pneumonia and with pneumonia it’s actually always best to go to the vet and get something more powerful than OTC and even then there’s a high death rate. Uterine infection though, if you go inside, a large dose of pennicyllin or LA200 initially and then given 7 days in a row will usually stop it from developing or if it does not give it time to make them really sick.
Where I am we can’t even get vets to make farm calls anymore, there is only one within 50 miles who even works on anything other than small animals. When it comes to pigs, goats and sheep they are dumb as rocks and don’t even know how to dose them. The reason they won’t make farm calls though is they only have one vet now that does it on a regular basis and he won’t mess with anything other than horses. The guy who does it once a week, is always weeks behind. Before they lost the other two who did farm calls they were useless, we had a sow that wasn’t dilating, we knew what we needed, but you have to get it from a vet, he refused to give it to her and said not only was she not in labor, she wasn’t bred. We lost her, cut her open and she had 12 piglets, the first piglet was turned at a weird angle and couldn’t move down, but wasn’t far enough down where we could reach it.
But they’re smarter than us.
Ammo, however, is once again available, and slightly cheaper.
There’s always going to be that “Why do I need to stockpile food when I can just take yours” kinda person.
Chumlee they had a big sale right before Christmas on .45, 9mm and .40, buy 2 get one free and no limit. We didn’t really need any as I doubt we’ll ever use all we have already, but can’t turn down deals like that.
Thank you for your nice farm story. I hear stories of similar decay of other industries. Take Power Generation. Us older boys grew up with this stuff and understand it. The new boys with their faces in phones really do not “get it”.
Proof? Right here in Vegas we had a mysterious high voltage transformer explosion. To anyone else, it looks like terrorism. But old Power Boys know it was a cooling issue. There are some things that you cannot trust the digital display on. An old boy would walk around and put his hand on that huge expensive, nearly irreplaceable and essential transformer. He would in a second KNOW it was over heating. Young boy sits in the control room and trusts his readouts. Or simply does not care.
The vets the schools are putting out today are the dumbest people I’ve ever seen. I think that’s why the majority just see small animals and they’re ignorant about them as well.
Old Racist White Woman, the vets I have seen around here are grabby and play the heart-string bs every chance they get. It’s a bit like how dentists were 25 years ago… they just made shit up to scare you into some horrific bill.
My Mother was gifted with the ability to save the lives of just about any animal under the sun. Jennifer, my wife, can do it, too… and my Father and I learned some of it from them.
A lot of what you have to do with animals is holding them still (sounds easy), and the other 1/4 is proper dosing. And the other quarter is dealing with hemorrhage.
Erik, we have goats as well, when we first got goats we knew absolutely nothing about goats. We knew about pigs, cows and horses. We knew the myth of goats turn them loose and they can eat anything. That is a myth btw, they can’t eat anything and they’re actually fairly smart and rarely will eat anything that will hurt them. They do though require a lot more hands on than cows and pigs. In all the years we’ve had goats we have only ever known one vet who knew anything about goats. They think they’re just like sheep, yet night and day difference between sheep and goats. Deworming for example, you must give them dewormer orally, injecting them is useless. They also require larger dosages of antibiotics because of how their body absorbs them. Copper they need much more than a sheep, very much copper will kill a sheep. Vets want to use the dosage chart for sheep or cows and if you do that your wasting your time. We had to learn that over the years through trial and error. A goat is actually closer related to a deer than anything and everything is off label for goats, the only thing they make for goats is feed and cdt and some dewormer pellets.
Before all of the mature vets left the local vet clinic, if they had a goat come in that they couldn’t figure out they’d call us and ask us if we had ever seen it and if so what did we do.
We don’t give antibiotics very often, but when we do we need the right dosage and a vet will always under dose or want to give them this antibiotic they have that is long lasting, one shot twice three days a part. It works great on sheep and cows, not on goats. So now we’ll be at the mercy of these stupid kid vets to get the antibiotics unless we can talk our old dog vet to prescribe us what we need. Thankfully though will all our animals 99% of issues can be taken care of without needing a vet. It’s just the rare cases when we need an antibiotic that concerns me.