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Royalfan5

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  1. Now most hay is rolled or big squares, but it wasn't through the 70's and 80's, along with a lot less active dairies and hog farms now. The trick to lift 75lb idiot bricks all day was to use your legs, and the motion builds directly into what you would use for run blocking. You take that, and add pharmaceuticals and you've got yourself a running game. Nebraska also has a deep sporting culture, especially for football, and wrestling, as well as volleyball, and that played into as well. For a long time, Nebraska had the highest percentage of eligible boys out for football, which helped to feed upon itself as well.
  2. Then explain why Terry Conneally was a full ride football scholarship from Grant Co. Nebraska population 746 instead of having a county scholarship. Same with Lance Lundberg from Wausa, and Dean Steinkuhler from Sterling. The truth of the walk-on program is that the state actually used to support higher education and it was pretty cheap to go down to Lincoln and give it a shot. Couple that with steroids and the natural leverage developed by throwing square bales and you could crank develop linemen and fullbacks, especially when they would go unscouted by anybody else, because there wasn't film on dudes from Humboldt and Ansely. There's a reason Hudl developed in Nebraska, because those folks knew how many kids were out there under the radar.
  3. You don't seriously believe the County Scholarship myth do you?
  4. Converting the old hotel on East Campus to offices finally bit UNL in the ass.
  5. Local papers are reporting they still get paid
  6. And downgraded back to canceled.
  7. Upgraded to playing tomorrow morning at 10:30
  8. I get that it was scheduled to be a National TV game, but we’ve know for days that weather was going to be problem tonight. Moving it up would have to make more sense that just hoping for the best and ending up with no game anyway.
  9. This game isn’t happening tonight unless the want to get going after midnight
  10. Nebraska may be worse than that, and Texas maybe better but Dorothy Lynch salad dressing will still be awful no matter what.
  11. Sold 68 steers today at 148.00 based on 825 for September delivery on the video
  12. In Nebraska pretty much every town above 900 folks has a Dollar General now. Most of those places already lost a Grocery Store because they were close to a bigger town or are remote enough that the grocery store is a little more insulated from it because other services like being a locker plant or delivery to elderly or other side deal.
  13. http://www.superiorlivestock.com/onlineCatalog?auctionId=1973&region[]=2&state[]=NE&kind[]=Feeder+Steers&lot=196191&lotIndex=3 Incase you want to buy some of my steers next week.
  14. Titanic and Avatar.
  15. Having a girlfriend who used to live in Independence has really enhanced this season for me.
  16. Not hitting his head has to be a tremendous bit of luck.
  17. It’s amazing the things critters can pick up before the humans can.
  18. A while, a lot of this stuff is pretty new, and a lot can still serve Japan and Korea etc
  19. There should plenty of demand overall, the biggest issue is that the investment in logistics has been built in direction of China so, the shipping to new markets will make suboptimal use of our capacity and unless it looks like a permanent deal the cash won’t be spent to reorient it. The issue on corn is the same except replace China with Mexico.
  20. Yes. By the time, they get around to doing anything on it, the market will probably be close to fully recovered anyway.
  21. And you could find a group of farmers to do a fuck Trump video. It wouldn't be hard at all.
  22. It’s not that hard for a journalist to find people to say what they want them to say.
  23. So as someone who actually works with Family Farmers(along with backgrounding cattle myself) here and talks about grain and livestock marketing in the national media from time to time, I think a lot of the dire predictions are pretty heavily overstated. We had prices at levels that worked for most guys through June. Coming forward the world feed grain stocks are significantly tighter, and we've seen a pretty strong rally the last couple of weeks, as we build that in, along with the potential for a poor finish to the crop year, all which could pretty easily put Ag commodity values back to new highs for the year into fall. Are the tariffs great, No, but demand is still pretty strong, and if money is there to get made it will get made. We will likely see soybeans run through Vietnam or some other Asian county to dodge tariffs. (We've seen that with distillers grains in the past), along with logistics reshuffling. The biggest threat is that a prolonged trade war collapses demand, which can't be worked around.
  24. A couple weeks ago, my Uncle passed away after a 10 month battle with colon cancer. He died during the local county fair, which was his favorite thing in the world. He was a past Fair Board President, and ran the beef and sheep shows. At the premium auction, a pair of sisters donated the premiums from their steers to start a fund to send kids to 4-H campus, which led to a wave of donations from the crowd so they went from 0 to 4K spontaneously. I was blown away when I heard the story. Longer version at the link. https://mtouch.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1057771257727364&id=200767540094411&ref=m_notif&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic
  25. It’s amazing how he only ever thinks in binary terms. If you are subsidizing the farms for China trade, you’re subsidizing them vs. the EU too.
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