Brace yourselves, feed prices are going to rise!!!!
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Oh, and I forgot--we also want it NOW! 
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& we want something to complain about.........
How else would we know when we were happy?
I honestly know a number of malcontents who really don't seem to be happy unless they're...unhappy.
That old saw, "BE the change you want to see in the world," really is a pretty good guideline. Whinging about how things aren't the way you'd like doesn't do a bit of good unless you back it up with actions--at least small ones. Want more organic, grass-fed beef? ONLY buy that. It might mean you eat less beef...is that a bad thing, really? Want American-made clothes and goods? Seek out those who provide them, and pay what it costs to have them. Maybe that means you have less "stuff", or you don't have "designer" stuff. Just depends on your priorities.
Right now, I can't afford to feed my family ALL organic, ALL the time. So I try to buy organic produce from the list of things that are highest in absorption of toxins if non-organic (apples, strawberries, etc.), and the rest I buy "regular" produce. In months when I can't manage even that, I make my 5-year-old daughter the priority, and SHE gets the "cleanest" food. I figure the toxins, xenoestrogens, etc., that she absorbs into her tiny little growing body are a lot more harmful to her than they are to me...and even if it's just as bad for me, I want her to have a fighting chance at genuine good health in life.
& we want something to complain about.........
How else would we know when we were happy?
That old saw, "BE the change you want to see in the world," really is a pretty good guideline. Whinging about how things aren't the way you'd like doesn't do a bit of good unless you back it up with actions--at least small ones. Want more organic, grass-fed beef? ONLY buy that. It might mean you eat less beef...is that a bad thing, really? Want American-made clothes and goods? Seek out those who provide them, and pay what it costs to have them. Maybe that means you have less "stuff", or you don't have "designer" stuff. Just depends on your priorities.
Right now, I can't afford to feed my family ALL organic, ALL the time. So I try to buy organic produce from the list of things that are highest in absorption of toxins if non-organic (apples, strawberries, etc.), and the rest I buy "regular" produce. In months when I can't manage even that, I make my 5-year-old daughter the priority, and SHE gets the "cleanest" food. I figure the toxins, xenoestrogens, etc., that she absorbs into her tiny little growing body are a lot more harmful to her than they are to me...and even if it's just as bad for me, I want her to have a fighting chance at genuine good health in life.
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1) In USA smelling herbicides 1/8 of a mile away they would be breaking so many laws. They'd be in jail and sued to bankruptcy.
2) My neighbor rotates pastures on his dairy. Production down some but feed costs and manure hauling are also down. On eggs, production would be down, almost non-existant in winter months, but egg prices would set all time highs as availability would be much less--that's not a bad thing.
We have laws about spray drift too. But by the time you get an official out to verify it the problem is gone.
Rotation works well if done properly. Planting with that in mind is a very regional equation. That was the trick here to keep production from dropping in a significant manner. We are lucky, in that normally we don't see any snow until late december and it is all gone by March. This last winter was an exception. We are over a month behind with everything.
Big compost pit with heat tubes to extract heat and feed it into the coop works very well for winter heat here. Cows provide all the fuel I need.
Also found sprouting all my seeds helps tremendously with feed bills and keeping winter egg production up.
Reality is that most people can't afford to make sweeping changes in their diet due to costs. But every small change people make has an effect on the market. Small easy steps and slow transitions in our food production allowed us to get where we are today.
With your friends dairy I wonder if the drop in production isn't partly a factor of the genetic lines of his cattle. I have seen reams of papers on how some genetic lines within specific breeds do not transition as well as others.
1) In USA smelling herbicides 1/8 of a mile away they would be breaking so many laws. They'd be in jail and sued to bankruptcy.
2) My neighbor rotates pastures on his dairy. Production down some but feed costs and manure hauling are also down. On eggs, production would be down, almost non-existant in winter months, but egg prices would set all time highs as availability would be much less--that's not a bad thing.
We have laws about spray drift too. But by the time you get an official out to verify it the problem is gone.
Rotation works well if done properly. Planting with that in mind is a very regional equation. That was the trick here to keep production from dropping in a significant manner. We are lucky, in that normally we don't see any snow until late december and it is all gone by March. This last winter was an exception. We are over a month behind with everything.
Big compost pit with heat tubes to extract heat and feed it into the coop works very well for winter heat here. Cows provide all the fuel I need.
Reality is that most people can't afford to make sweeping changes in their diet due to costs. But every small change people make has an effect on the market. Small easy steps and slow transitions in our food production allowed us to get where we are today.
With your friends dairy I wonder if the drop in production isn't partly a factor of the genetic lines of his cattle. I have seen reams of papers on how some genetic lines within specific breeds do not transition as well as others.
We have laws about spray drift too. But by the time you get an official out to verify it the problem is gone.
If you have drift, you will see a "kill" pattern that can be traced back to the farmer. If you can smell it, it will be killing targeted types of weeds. Your official must be really uneducated(I would use the word stupid but that's unkind).
If you have drift, you will see a "kill" pattern that can be traced back to the farmer. If you can smell it, it will be killing targeted types of weeds. Your official must be really uneducated(I would use the word stupid but that's unkind).
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They are not uneducated or stupid. They are lazy and don't care is more the reality of it. Just like a few hours north of me when they spray fruit crops. When you drop into the valley and look over the city, you can literally see the haze from the spray. That city has one of the highest rates of respiratory problems and lung cancer in the region. I wonder why?
They are not uneducated or stupid. They are lazy and don't care is more the reality of it. Just like a few hours north of me when they spray fruit crops. When you drop into the valley and look over the city, you can literally see the haze from the spray. That city has one of the highest rates of respiratory problems and lung cancer in the region. I wonder why?
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