I don't know what to believe at this point. What I do know is there is talk of millions of poultry flock that will have to be done away with if they can't be processed. As I posted earlier, it's a stone cold fact that pork processing it down at minimum 20% and beef processing is down 30%. The reports I'm seeing is those numbers are going to do nothing but go up and believe me, there is no political bias involved with those prognostications.
Beef calves can be held by the feed lots for a time but not indefinitely. Pork & poultry aren't quite as flexible. If they don't get processed they have to go somewhere. Milk is being dumped on farmland by the tens of thousands of gallons because there is no one to process it.
We have plenty of meat and I have access to animals that are being fed out to finish by several neighbors. If push comes to shove we can process our own and have meat for a year or more. We've processed dozens of calves and even more hogs in the past so that won't be a problem.
It's in the urban areas where things are going to get very sketchy if the shortages come to fruition.
Beef calves can be held by the feed lots for a time but not indefinitely. Pork & poultry aren't quite as flexible. If they don't get processed they have to go somewhere. Milk is being dumped on farmland by the tens of thousands of gallons because there is no one to process it.
We have plenty of meat and I have access to animals that are being fed out to finish by several neighbors. If push comes to shove we can process our own and have meat for a year or more. We've processed dozens of calves and even more hogs in the past so that won't be a problem.
It's in the urban areas where things are going to get very sketchy if the shortages come to fruition.
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