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Share cropping may make a comeback!
Sirhr
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Food riots thread…and energy.
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Share cropping may make a comeback!
Sirhr
I was raised on a farm. Worked some very large places in college. My wife's family owns several irrigated sections.
There are three models.
1. Farmer has cash for inputs. Or has inputs banked or contracted for.
2. Farmer has cash and a loan for input. Bank owns part of crop.
3. Farmer has cash for inputs. Land owner and farmer split costs and crop.
Once the crop is in the ground, its pretty much a done deal. Given the high price of grain now even a marginal crop will get harvested.
If a farmer goes tits up, then the bank or land owner will contract to have the crop harvested OR find another farmer to protect its interests.
Coming back from the Panhandle I saw that most dryland wheat was up and a lot of fields were getting planted with Sorghum as a second crop. I saw no lodged crops.
All of my wife's sections have the wheat up and are now planted corn that is contracted for green chop.
I also saw a lot of fields are getting baled for wheat or other straw.
Further north, all the cattle and farms up to South Dakota looked good and productive. Lots of tractors out working.
In short, I just don't see what you claim.
That's good news... and plays into the narrative that 'one doesn't have to have a food shortage, one merely needs to create the appearance of one... to incite concern, hoarding or panic.
I saw it on the morning RFD-TV Ag-Report. Which I stumbled on. I don't watch it. I didn't claim it... just what the 'talking head' was on Good Morning America For Farmers... am news show.
It's why this thread is interesting... lots of 'stuff' flying around. Hard to know what's Live and what's Memorex!
Cheers!
Sirhr
City slicker..
Weld one about 5 feet long and 2.5 feet wide and 3 feet deep. Build a frame out of angle iron. Weld on sheet metal. Fill about halfway with water. Find and weld the leaks. Add baffles on bottom and side. Make a lid. Water will boil faster.
Wait for a day where night will be below 32 degrees. Set it on some drill stem. Build a fire. Fill half full. When it hits 200 degrees:
1. Shoot pigs between the eyes. Bleed from neck while heart is pumping. See 5 below. A front loader or tripod helps.
2. Put hooks/rods into front and back hocks
3. Lower into scalding water for a few minutes. You want the pig submerged.
4. Remove and then scrape hard to the hair off. Wash with a hose. Be sure to wear cotton or heavy gloves that you can wash.
5. Dress. Best way is to use a tripod and a gut buggy. You can weld a tripod and a buggy one up with a boat come along.
6. Wash again.
7. Break down the carcass. Its pretty easy. Be sure to set aside the fat.
8. CLEAN the tub with soap/water/clorox.
9. Drop fatty parts into tub and render down. Scoop off fat and put into CLEAN jars/tins and let cool with lids on. (Lard)
10. Figure out what cuts you will smoke/cure and get those into the salt box.
11. Wrap cuts. Label. Freeze.
12. Continue to cure then smoke bacon/hams.
Keep in mind that the meat must land on CLEAN surfaces and then be promptly frozen or dropped into a salt box. Wash your hands at each step of the process and use medical gloves.
My dad and me and my uncle could do 10 x 400 lb pigs in a day. I've done two in a day by myself with time to spare.
It helps to have some tables with plastic on them laid end to end for the final cutting of the cuts/packing.
Having a two good saws, good knives, vaccuum packer, helps a ton.
Start small. Do a little guy first. Maybe 80 to 100 lbs to get your process down.
And pink salt.
Gonna need pink salt.
A bandsaw helps a ton, but not required, you can get by with a hacksaw and a stainless blade for it.
And bleach, you'll need a good gallon for cleanup.
Just love the fact that the farmers also took the manure treatment to media buildings .
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No fucks given
Farmers even brought a Sherman to use as a road block
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No fucks given
Farmers even brought a Sherman to use as a road block
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I get it. My post was more for folks who don't have the options/equipment you listed. We drag home "junk" that may have use... East side of the barn looks like a scrap yard but we have it. A lot of folks don't. Sometimes folks may have to improvise to get by.
You mentioned salt... That will be a valuable commodity. Best to have a good supply on hand and know where to get more.
Mike
Most folks only have a few days of groceries, a salt shaker of salt, pay check to pay check and can't keep scrap iron or a welder in a 1 bedroom apartment.
Don't take much to peal veneer.... Leave it out in the elements for a while and it will peel itself.
Chicken producer in California ( foster ) reports chicken feed shortages so bad that they are considering killing off millions of chickens.
This may be related to the rail embargo in effect denying railroad car entering California. This is due to railroad congestion across the west.
This may be related to the rail embargo in effect denying railroad car entering California. This is due to railroad congestion across the west.
There have been some other comments about the major chicken growers / suppliers / processors. They are well tuned to the supply and demand issues. The growers are under contract and can be cut off with little notice. An industry that has weathered many storms. A sign of the times to come.
Foster Farms - Wikipedia
tucker just had a Dutch Reporter on (she was HOT and smart) . The Dutch Gov is trying to take the farmers land to use for housing for more immigrants, as well as other 'environmental policies' designed to destroy the farmer.
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Parts of that country have been completely shut down by the farmers.
This is not Ukraine but the Netherlands, farmers armor plating their Tractors.
Which is a direct result of billionaire investment groups buying railroads and shutting off services.
Sirhr
Poor dolts have been brainwashed that they are their favorite cartoon heroes out fighting for justice.
I would certainly like to introduce that young one to my cattle Hot Shot when she climbs through my fence to steal something out of my garden when she gets really hungry........
This is what we get when they grow up with no consequences for their actions.
Actually, I think that is Kentucky Fried Chicken, which makes it even funnier….
Sirhr
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The time has come to deal with the incorrigible teens. Getting so bad that one state is pawning them off on another state.
How's that working out ?
Louisiana's troubled teens unwelcome in Alabama after causing riot at facility this week
Louisiana's troubled teens unwelcome in Alabama after causing riot at facility this week
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This shit is real people.
Hope you are squared away.
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Hope you are squared away.
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Another explosion, another Act of War against America.
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Residents Evacuated After Explosion on Natural Gas Pipeline in Wallis, Texas | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
According to Fort Bend County officials, authorities responded to a pipeline explosion in the 15400 block of JoAnn near FM 1952, just west of Orchard, on Thursday.
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Yep, nothing new. The pipeline in Virginia and North Carolina that we did repairs on was ran in the late 50's if I remember correctly. You can see videos online of that pipeline near Appomattox, it had a blow out the year before I went out to help.
pipe bomb, c4, handgrenade, moltov cocktail.
All the loving .gov could muster.
They don't always flash. Just guessing but that pipe was probably operating in the 550-750psi range, when it let go, it is like an explosion with or w/o fire because it probably blew down 8-15 miles of pipe. Rocks, parts of pipe, static electricity, etc could have ignited it. I'm just glat it wasn't a farmer working that wet it off. It will depressure VERY quickly as normally 1-2+ 40ft joints of pipe open up. The original defect may have only inches or feet, but once it goes it will rip parent pipe and/or possible follow the long seam. What probably stopped propagation is a circumferential weld.
I have been on more than my share of these. I even investigated one where a new pipeline blew. I saw the black smoke from my office in Houston. Got out here and asked what they were doing. Response I got was they were running a smart pig to check the new pipe, were running it in a diesel slug, with an air compressor. I said, do you know what a diesel engine is? They destroyed a $250K smart pig, a lot of pipe, and were about 2 feet off other operating pipelines.
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