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Thanks for the suggestions! ...

On my phone so this may look like a wall of text. These animals died from heat stress. While the total number of cattle dead in this event may be higher than most times these events, while not normal, aren’t uncommon. You can look up similar events in 2009, 2010, 2013 at least. The combinati...

Public House off Coulter is kind of high but good. There is also a cheaper bar across the parking lot for after if you want. ...

We can absolutely feed an animal to slaughter weight by 18-24 months without any antibiotics. We do it regularly, there are many programs that specifically source that product. Look at Walmarts prime pursuits program. What age should an animal reach slaughter at? On grass only? What kind of grass...

Only feeding grain with no roughage isn't a thing unless you are using an intake limiter which is very uncommon today (and those intake limiters aren't antibiotics, oils usually). There are plenty of cattle fed finishing diets without antibiotics. To add to that, there isn't some massive amount of ...

That's all far off the mark in a big way. And maybe it was a joke and I missed it. ...

In general I'm not a fan of that. Almost all of the beef we import is lean grinding beef of which we don'y make enough of. The American appetite for beef is in the form of steaks and ground beef. We produce plenty of the high value cuts but not enough of lean meat. We could grind up more chucks and ...

I don't know if you realize the negative effect that transportation over long distances has on an animal. With calves we can make that up with time. With fat cattle headed for slaughter we cant. Thats all money lost largely for the producer, not the packer. I don't disagree about what plants hav...

Having a bottleneck with only 4 major packers is a bad deal but it's not because of government regulations only. It's a good thing to have those people at plants and the reason many plants have gone out of business and been consolidated is because oh how difficult the packing business is in a global...

I would echo that it is heavily dependent on if you can get it paid for and if it puts you into a different job/earnings bracket. For what I do a PhD is the price of entry and the pay is increased accordingly. That demand for trained PhDs then also allows for graduate assistantships at colleges that...