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Why I am advocating for preemptive noncompliance in regards to the eID mandate.
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Oliver Koehn (As I Thinketh)
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Oliver Koehn (As I Thinketh)
@ThinkethSo
Beef Producer. Anti-Federalist. Anti-mEID. Pro-American.
Montana, USA Sumali Mayıs 2023
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what are the 3600 Greeley employees doing while the 150 are at the picket line
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@sovernTranch In Montana we still have thousands of acres of weak pastures dominated by club moss from overgrazing by sheep 100 years ago.
Sheep can do a lot for the land if properly managed, but will do more damage than cattle if mismanaged.
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Every family should have four sheep an acre
Roland Gunn 🇺🇸@RolandGunnTN
People who have never owned land don’t really understand the upkeep involved in maintaining it at just a basic level, at least in the Southeast. Clearing downed trees, grading roads, bush-hogging etc. in the South if you don’t maintain land ecological succession comes quickly.
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@riley_sides Was looking this morning, Kansas has had the greatest reduction in cow numbers the last few years, and continues to shrink it's cow herd faster than any other state
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I’d volunteer to rebuild the herd if they’d bring cloud seeding to western Kansas 😂
Kinda hard to do much when it looks like we live on the moon
R-CALF USA@RCALFUSA
Record high beef prices. Record high cattle prices. Record imports. Historically low cattle numbers. And yet, producers are not expanding. Why? Because the underlying structure of the marketplace has not changed. In Part IV of The State of America’s Beef Industry, we break down where we are today and what must be done to restore competition, transparency and long-term stability. 📺Watch: The State of America’s Beef Industry, Part IV
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We grow corn, wheat, milo singular, but soybeans plural. Why?
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@reelangus Lots I'm hoping!
Actually starting to see a few used ones popping up but they are still unaffordable.
If I thinned timber and cleared brush like I want to, I think I could run another 30-40 pair
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New brush clearing and land management companies seem to popping up everyday. Makes you wonder how many used drum mulchers will be available in 2-3 years.
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Before anyone calls me retarded, keep in mind that at $0.50 diesel, every field gets rolled after a snow, every field gets an extra tillage pass, and ethanol plants close
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Would American agriculture be better off with:
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Oliver Koehn (As I Thinketh) nag-retweet
In January 2026, U.S. factory activity expanded for the first time in two years.
America surpassed Japan in steel production for the first time since 1999.
This is what it looks like when you fight for it.
This is winning.
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@OrinRomine You don't think fuel could go back down before harvest?
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The average American spends 2.25% to 3% of their income on fuel.
With the current increase in prices that is now 2.75% to 4%.
A 1% drop in expendable income is enough to make many Americans panic, lose their spine, and in some cases, go full Benedict Arnold.
Noted.
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Oliver Koehn (As I Thinketh) nag-retweet
For 250 years, agriculture has been the backbone of our nation. When we put farmers first, America grows strong. 🚜🇺🇸🌾 #NationalAgWeek
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@RandyYmker @GGunthorp $5,900 for heifer pairs in Lewistown this week.
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I still suspect there are more cow calf guys taking these high prices as opportunity to retire than there are new entrants. How do new players access land and capital? And who believes market holds?
R-CALF USA@RCALFUSA
Record high beef prices. Record high cattle prices. Record imports. Historically low cattle numbers. And yet, producers are not expanding. Why? Because the underlying structure of the marketplace has not changed. In Part IV of The State of America’s Beef Industry, we break down where we are today and what must be done to restore competition, transparency and long-term stability. 📺Watch: The State of America’s Beef Industry, Part IV
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@ThinkethSo @JerodMcDaniel I hadn't given it a thought...
If pressed I suppose I'd mumble something about there being more cows in Texas than in all of Canada and probably roll my eyes.
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This applies to most all of agriculture infrastructure as well, from cattle corrals to grain elevators
Not enough new being built to replace what should already have been aged out.
MoundLore@MoundLore
Most of the U.S. was built between 1930–1970. Interstates. Dams. Power grids still carrying everything. Hell the average bridge is 40+ years old. Tens of thousands are already flagged. We took a system already built and continued to stack more weight on it. More cars. More load. More demand. Every day, millions of people drive across structures already marked as deficient and don’t feel it. We’re not running a modern country. We’re running an old one that hasn’t failed yet.
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@AgroNationalism Now what he doesn't get slack for is sleeping on the job!!! (Assuming he didn't just keel over there)
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@AgroNationalism So what I'm saying is it's basically necessary to do this in order to raise onions, so we should cut him some slack.
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@AgroNationalism Like potatoes, you can't really harvest onions without heavy tillage. Even if you picked by hand, you're still ripping them out of the ground, essentially tilling.
And it looks like he had sandy loam to start with.
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@kansasangus @JerodMcDaniel What are your thoughts on Canada reporting a 2.5% increase in their herd?
The USA and Canada have shared cycles for a long time, I think this is the first divergence since 1920.
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@JerodMcDaniel I know folks get bristly whenever a guy mentions government involvement within a mile of cattle production... But some low interest, long termed government money for cattle production infrastructure is the key in my opinion to maintaining/rebuilding the domestic cowherd.
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@OrinRomine Yeah sucks for farmers, but is a negligible/optional expense for many Americans.
Farmer friend of mine just bought his whole years worth of fuel just the other day, will be interesting to see if that was the right choice!
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Well, I’d wager eating out and things like coffees would more than compensate. I’m not worried about it personally, but most those I do know who are worried sure hit the drive through and coffee places heavily. We burn just under a transport load a month on the farm side. It sure stings on that side of the house. Bought a load a couple weeks ago. 3.84.
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@ThinkethSo I think it's a bit like food. It's one of the rare things you have the illusion of control because you pay as you use, and it's very tangible. So when things that are punctual and abstract (like insurance premiums) get tight you think you will save on food and gas.
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@Empty_America It is difficult to define happiness in one's own life, in one's own language, let alone get good consistent answers with the same meaning out of other languages.
Are you happy or joyful? Glück or Freude?
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Happiness studies are so strange.
When you see Costa Rica, Romania and Belize in the same top 10 as Iceland and Finland, you really wonder what is even being measured.
The Mind Scourge@TheMindScourge
Israel is the 8th happiest country in the world, and 3rd happinest amongst those 25 and under In general, the happiest countries for the young would be very hard to predict; for example, Serbia is world-leading here, and Romania is 7th
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