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Posted
Just now, SydneyCarton said:

I mean, almost certainly. Or aggie T-shirt fans, most likely. But I'm guessing you don't understand the significance of an Ag Exemption?

It means y'all are tax dodgers, get 'em boys.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Brian Fantana said:

It means y'all are tax dodgers, get 'em boys.

Ha. It means that land would be foreclosed upon and auctioned off to an Oligarch for peanuts...decades ago. 

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Posted
3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Ok, so Twicehorn said the two articles are different, and your immediate response, unprompted to anything he said, was to try and blame Covid.

Your post(s) on this thread were "This is all a big nothingburger" or equivalent, but now you're happy to blame Covid 19. I'm sure everyone here is SUPER surprised to see you take this opportunity. So who do you blame for all those travel restrictions and "bad" choices in 2020? 

The article directly blames covid travel restrictions.  Sorry the truth hurts your worldview.

Posted
5 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

The article directly blames covid travel restrictions.  Sorry the truth hurts your worldview.

It doesn't. I'm just sorry that you, as usual, refuse to respond directly to your own posts on this thread claiming this is a nothingburger, or is it a covid resultant crisis, and how you arrived there in a few short posts, all while answering a question Twicehorn never asked you.

I'm also sorry, but again not surprised, that you refused to answer very direct questions I posed to you about who you blame for 2020 covid policies. 

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Posted (edited)
6 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

It doesn't. I'm just sorry that you, as usual, refuse to respond directly to your own posts on this thread claiming this is a nothingburger, or is it a covid resultant crisis, and how you arrived there in a few short posts, all while answering a question Twicehorn never asked you.

I'm also sorry, but again not surprised, that you refused to answer very direct questions I posed to you about who you blame for 2020 covid policies. 

No the article, as quoted, quite literally does lay the blame at travel restrictions stopping inspection.


I’m confident the ag sector and USDA will solve this before it wreaks havoc on US beef.  Frankly I suspect the border restrictions on Mexican cattle is more about protectionism than screwfly.  So yes this article is just panic porn.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

No the article, as quoted, quite literally does lay the blame at travel restrictions stopping inspection.


I’m confident the ag sector and USDA will solve this before it wreaks havoc on US beef.  Frankly I suspect the border restrictions on Mexican cattle is more about protectionism than screwfly.  So yes this article is just panic porn.

Yes. I've read the article. I'm just curious why you chose to quote that section to the thread unprompted. It wasn't any part of the discussion people had brought up. Sort of like folks talking about their cup of coffee or beer choice, and you coming in with "THE MOB KILLED KENNEDY."

Ah, so you still don't want to say who you blame for travel restrictions despite directly being asked twice. Since you brought it up in this thread. 

We'll I'm glad you're confident. Strange that most of the agriculture people in that article are NOT confident, and Cruz and Cornyn are trying to put together a massive bill to build a facility. It sucks that our elected officials in Texas are prone to such unnecessary panic porn that they're lobbying for a major spending bill. But with your confidence, I will sleep easy. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

While staying at a family friend’s ranch in Oklahoma 70 yearsago, the owner rounded up a few of his cows for us to look at. 
One of the critters had a gory looking hole in it lower gut area filled with screwworms. 
The rancher figured the cow had scratched itself on some barbed wire, giving the insects a prime spot to lay eggs. 
It was really nasty looking. He called the local vet to come out to treat it, but I don’t recall the ultimate outcome for that particular bovine. 
None of the remaining herd of 200+ were infected - after being rounded up for a check.

pic from AB's encounter that day...

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Posted
57 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

f it gets bad, they'll go back to fly-vasectomies and release a billion horny male flies to hump the ladies into extinction.  

Why haven't we been doing this with aggy?

Posted
57 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

I have geared a lot of my crop land acres away from cereal grain production and more towards beef production. For example I plant triticale in the fall now, instead of wheat. Milo has turned into my targeted cash crop now instead of wheat. 

Speaking of stuff that gets into somethings skin and can cause pain. 

Posted
1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

 

If it gets bad, they'll go back to fly-vasectomies and release a billion horny male flies to hump the ladies into extinction.  

 

Well, not if funding for that very successful program has been DOGE'd. 

Similar programs are done to control mosquitos, or at least were once done. 

 

Posted
1 minute ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Well, not if funding for that very successful program has been DOGE'd. 

Similar programs are done to control mosquitos, or at least were once done. 

 

Jesus man, it was a technique used back in the 60's that engendered a complete eradication..  If it's still on the books, then that raises a bigger question.

Posted
10 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

It just occurred to me that the 10 cows we probably use to keep the ag exemption on my FIL's property is probably going to get fucked . 

 

10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Why, are the neighbors aggy?

 

10 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

I mean, almost certainly. Or aggie T-shirt fans, most likely. But I'm guessing you don't understand the significance of an Ag Exemption?

I think atomheartbevo was referring to the aggy proclivity towards animal husbandry.  Remember "Baaa (and Mooo), means no."

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Sometimes I like to think about 10th century peasants stripping ancient palaces and public spaces for marble across the former Roman Empire. Surrounded by stunning feats of human achievement made possible by systems they never saw, could not understand, could not recreate, but could slowly dismantle piece by piece. 

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