Fifty-six years! We splurged on the meal and bought beef tenderloins to
go with rosemary potatoes and lettuce salad.
The steaks cost forty-eight bucks. We need more cows! Ignore the farting
and start the breeding. Restrictive laws, rules and regulations be damned.
Fifty-six years! We splurged on the meal and bought beef tenderloins to
go with rosemary potatoes and lettuce salad.
The steaks cost forty-eight bucks. We need more cows! Ignore the farting
and start the breeding. Restrictive laws, rules and regulations be damned.
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leo
On 10/11/2026 9:27 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
Fifty-six years! We splurged on the meal and bought beef tenderloins to
go with rosemary potatoes and lettuce salad.
The steaks cost forty-eight bucks. We need more cows! Ignore the farting
and start the breeding. Restrictive laws, rules and regulations be damned. >>
<https://postimg.cc/7bTBsPzv>
leo
Congratulations.
Beef is an expensive splurge these days.
Fifty-six years! We splurged on the meal and bought beef tenderloins to
go with rosemary potatoes and lettuce salad.
The steaks cost forty-eight bucks. We need more cows! Ignore the farting
and start the breeding. Restrictive laws, rules and regulations be damned.
Fifty-six years! We splurged on the meal and bought beef tenderloins to
go with rosemary potatoes and lettuce salad.
The steaks cost forty-eight bucks. We need more cows! Ignore the farting
and start the breeding. Restrictive laws, rules and regulations be damned.
<https://postimg.cc/7bTBsPzv>
leo
Fifty-six years! We splurged on the meal and bought beef tenderloins to
go with rosemary potatoes and lettuce salad.
The steaks cost forty-eight bucks. We need more cows! Ignore the farting
and start the breeding. Restrictive laws, rules and regulations be damned.
<https://postimg.cc/7bTBsPzv>
leo
Fifty-six years! We splurged on the meal and bought beef tenderloins to
go with rosemary potatoes and lettuce salad.
The steaks cost forty-eight bucks. We need more cows! Ignore the farting
and start the breeding. Restrictive laws, rules and regulations be damned.
<https://postimg.cc/7bTBsPzv>
On 10/11/2026 9:27 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
Fifty-six years! We splurged on the meal and bought beef tenderloins to
go with rosemary potatoes and lettuce salad.
The steaks cost forty-eight bucks. We need more cows! Ignore the farting
and start the breeding. Restrictive laws, rules and regulations be
damned.
<https://postimg.cc/7bTBsPzv>
leo
Congratulations.
Beef is an expensive splurge these days. Drought is the biggest factor,
cows cannot get enough food. Cost of grain very high.
They look nice though. Hope tasty too.
On 2026-10-12, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Multi-year droughts across key cattle-producing states forced ranchers
to liquidate or cull their herds prematurely because grazing land and
water dried up.
Ranchers and feedlots face soaring expenses for grain, corn, soy,
alfalfa, fuel, labor, and veterinary care, making it too costly to
expand herds quickly.
A small number of large meatpacking companies control the vast majority
of processing facilities, which critics and antitrust investigations
point to as a factor in wide profit-margin gaps between what ranchers
are paid and what consumers see at the store.
And now we have screwworm, too.
Fifty-six years! We splurged on the meal and bought beef tenderloins to
go with rosemary potatoes and lettuce salad.
The steaks cost forty-eight bucks. We need more cows! Ignore the farting
and start the breeding. Restrictive laws, rules and regulations be damned.
<https://postimg.cc/7bTBsPzv>
leo
On 2026-10-12 5:19 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:lot of farmers wanted to keep it but Harper's brand of
On 2026-10-12, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Multi-year droughts across key cattle-producing states forced ranchers
to liquidate or cull their herds prematurely because grazing land and
water dried up.
Ranchers and feedlots face soaring expenses for grain, corn, soy,
alfalfa, fuel, labor, and veterinary care, making it too costly to
expand herds quickly.
A small number of large meatpacking companies control the vast majority
of processing facilities, which critics and antitrust investigations
point to as a factor in wide profit-margin gaps between what ranchers
are paid and what consumers see at the store.
And now we have screwworm, too.
Farmers can be an odd lot. We had a controversy up here a few years ago that led to the dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board. It had been set
up to buy grain from the farmers, store it and sell it. It was a great deal for the farmers because they would get paid on delivery for the
entire crop and not have to get dicker around by the major grain
companies. It worked well for them when times were hard but every once
in a while when it was a seller's market they could get better prices selling it on their own, often in the US. The government gave up and got
rid of it.
They didn't give up! It was Harper-dogma that got rid of it. A helluva
On 2026-10-12 7:33 a.m., Dave Smith wrote:
On 2026-10-12 5:19 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:lot of farmers wanted to keep it but Harper's brand of ultra-
On 2026-10-12, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Multi-year droughts across key cattle-producing states forced ranchers
to liquidate or cull their herds prematurely because grazing land and
water dried up.
Ranchers and feedlots face soaring expenses for grain, corn, soy,
alfalfa, fuel, labor, and veterinary care, making it too costly to
expand herds quickly.
A small number of large meatpacking companies control the vast majority
of processing facilities, which critics and antitrust investigations
point to as a factor in wide profit-margin gaps between what ranchers
are paid and what consumers see at the store.
And now we have screwworm, too.
Farmers can be an odd lot. We had a controversy up here a few years
ago that led to the dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board. It had
been set up to buy grain from the farmers, store it and sell it. It
was a great deal for the farmers because they would get paid on
delivery for the entire crop and not have to get dicker around by the
major grain companies. It worked well for them when times were hard
but every once in a while when it was a seller's market they could get
better prices selling it on their own, often in the US. The government
gave up and got rid of it.
They didn't give up! It was Harper-dogma that got rid of it. A helluva
conservatism ended it.
On 2026-10-12 1:00 p.m., Graham wrote:
On 2026-10-12 7:33 a.m., Dave Smith wrote:
On 2026-10-12 5:19 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:lot of farmers wanted to keep it but Harper's brand of ultra-
On 2026-10-12, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Multi-year droughts across key cattle-producing states forced ranchers >>>> to liquidate or cull their herds prematurely because grazing land and
water dried up.
Ranchers and feedlots face soaring expenses for grain, corn, soy,
alfalfa, fuel, labor, and veterinary care, making it too costly to
expand herds quickly.
A small number of large meatpacking companies control the vast majority >>>> of processing facilities, which critics and antitrust investigations
point to as a factor in wide profit-margin gaps between what ranchers
are paid and what consumers see at the store.
And now we have screwworm, too.
Farmers can be an odd lot. We had a controversy up here a few years
ago that led to the dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board. It had
been set up to buy grain from the farmers, store it and sell it. It
was a great deal for the farmers because they would get paid on
delivery for the entire crop and not have to get dicker around by the
major grain companies. It worked well for them when times were hard
but every once in a while when it was a seller's market they could
get better prices selling it on their own, often in the US. The
government gave up and got rid of it.
They didn't give up! It was Harper-dogma that got rid of it. A helluva
conservatism ended it.
I recall that the loudest group were the opponents, mostly western
farmers who wanted to be able to sell their grain to the highest bidder. They acted like it was some sort of Ottawa anti western conspiracy to
make them sell through the WMB. I didn't have a horse in the race. There
is lots of grain grown here in Ontario but the WMB only applied to the western farmers, the guys who had had so much trouble with the
multinational purchasers. Fine. Keep the board and let them do their job
of benefitting the greatest number of farmers or get rid of it and let
them deal with marketing problems on their own, but you don't get a shot
at the totally free market and best prices in the good years and then go
to the government hat in hand in the bad years.
On 2026-10-12 11:18 a.m., Dave Smith wrote:
I recall that the loudest group were the opponents, mostly westernThe majority wanted to keep it. Only the loud-mouthed minority wanted it dismantled. It's the same group who supported the truckers in Ottawa and behind the stupid independence movement.
farmers who wanted to be able to sell their grain to the highest
bidder. They acted like it was some sort of Ottawa anti western
conspiracy to make them sell through the WMB. I didn't have a horse in
the race. There is lots of grain grown here in Ontario but the WMB
only applied to the western farmers, the guys who had had so much
trouble with the multinational purchasers. Fine. Keep the board and
let them do their job of benefitting the greatest number of farmers or
get rid of it and let them deal with marketing problems on their own,
but you don't get a shot at the totally free market and best prices in
the good years and then go to the government hat in hand in the bad
years.
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