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Pickup companies need to come up with a rancher package:
No annoying seat belt dinger
Emissions crap already deleted
Doors don't automatically lock
Reinforced edge on the driver's seat
Rails on the dash to keep the pile from eventually scattering everywhere
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You've got to wonder how many office betting pools are out there for the
#88
cow..
(Not going to lie, a little nervous that the outcome here might not be great)
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The most sought after commodity in Agriculture right now...
Might be young, hard working people (that are willing to relocate)
I often wonder if these young people understand the unbelievable opportunities that are out there for them?
The demand is high and supply is low.
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Did you know that the United States imported 3,342,203,920 pounds of beef in 2020?
Of course you didn't! Or you'd be on the phone calling your representatives demanding Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling
Number for the Congressional switchboard by the way is: 202- 224-3121
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To recap, the largest meat packer in the US, JBS has admitted to price fixing and in a separate instance corruption (bribery).
No biggie.
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The reason there is a shortage of farm laborers in the US:
Farmers and ranchers can not afford to extend a reasonable salary while competing against the dumping of foreign commodities, produced in countries that do not pay a living wage.
It's that simple.
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I wonder what percentage of Americans have never been to rural America? Spent a few days?
In contrast, I assume very close to all rural Americans have spent some time in an urban area.
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When they tell you Cattle eIDs are being mandated for disease traceability:
BUT exempt steers, those under 18 months, cattle going to slaughter and movement intrastate...
You are a fool if you don't start to question what is really happening here.
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Odd time in Agriculture....
At the moment, basically any farm equipment, building or land you purchased in the past ten years looks like it was a brilliant choice and an inspired investment.
Meanwhile, anything you need to purchase now seems insane.
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Unsolicited advise to anyone starting out with cattle.
Spend every penny you can on building as nice a set of solid, functional facilities as you can.
An older version of yourself will be grateful.
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My county has a population density of one person per 2.7 miles.
We've had 2 cases of Covid, months ago.
This is why mandates and laws should be applied at the most local level possible.
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My conspiracy theory:
Lumber shortages
Gas shortages
Chemical shortages
Crumbling cattle market
All things that environmentalist have villianized as causing green house issues.
They couldn't legislate change, so they are forcing it.
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If Dex and Ivomec seem to have some therapeutic success with Covid, perhaps we should tell them about Nuflor and Draxxin?
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@ElijahSchaffer
I'd be curious to know how an unarmed crowd took over, arguably the most protected, building in the United States....
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Farming is amongst the highest occupations likely to die from suicide.
Over 500 family farms declare bankruptcy each year.
We've lost 40% of cattle producers and 90% of hog producers in the past 40 years.
Happy National Farmer's Day...
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If you make your living in production agriculture and are not yet absolutely terrified by the supply and part shortages, let me be the guy that awoke you to the crisis.
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Fact Checking my wife:
Do other people have plates you can't put in the microwave?
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The dollars made on foreign beef aren't passed around rural communities; they don't buy lunch in the cafe, they don't go to hardware stores, they don't pay property taxes, they don't get tossed in the collection plate on Sunday morning.
Demand USA Beef, retweet, call Congress.
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Forget last century's "Thank a Farmer".
If you want food on the shelves, you better figure out how to
"Pay a Farmer"
We CAN'T supply you with food, if we've gone broke....
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So.... Exactly how's this no tax on tips gonna work.
Think I can sell Angus bulls for $100 with a suggested tip of around $5000 (+/-)?
This could be a game changer. 😂
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I'm choking on the irony of the Cattlemen's Beef Board and National Cattlemen's Beef Association coming out with, "United Steaks of America" while not supporting mandatory country of origin labeling.
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@SenatorBraun
I'd be curious to know how an unarmed crowd took over, arguably the most protected, building in the United States....
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One of President Trump's greatest achievements is on stage tonight: Vice President Mike Pence.
He's a badass.
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@RepThomasMassie
Oh come now, all roads lead to an Omnibus.
Has the Speaker lived up to the deal or not?
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Can you imagine. What if...
Trump actually did get rid of Federal Income tax and funded the government with tariffs.
Imagining a world where foreign beef was slapped with increased tariffs is a very exciting idea to me.
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An opinion.
Dr. Shawn Baker has done more for the promotion of Beef this past year than the millions the Beef Checkoff collected and tossed around.
There's the real reason we need Checkoff reform.
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Every day on the cattle side.
Imagine telling a wheat farmer they needed to own a grain mill and a bakery to find a market for their grain.
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Calving barns: ever thought about how many times you've walked those steps from house to barn. Owned my place a decade, several years 200+ heifers. Stomped drifts, moonlit beauty, frosty 3 am, there's a path in my yard where weary feet and happiness of new life has tread.
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Honked twice. Hollered out the window. Cursed. Slammed feed truck door. Crawled over bunks. Stomped across the pen....
and the "dead" bull...
Startled from his slumber, jumped up and walked away!!
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It would be fascinating to see the decline in membership that Farm Bureau and National Cattlemen's Beef Association have had in the past 5+ years.
The window of discourse has clearly shifted toward increased understanding that these organizations do more harm than good.
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There are about 90 million dogs in the US and millions of others pets
Every day these animals cross state lines
If we were seriously concerned about the spread of zoonotic diseases, that's where we'd start
Don't let them tell you mandated cattle eIDs is about traceability
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How will we know if we overreacted?
I suggest that if on December 31, 2020 there have been more US fatalities due to flu than Coronavirus we ALL agree it was hysteria and craziness.
Everyone ok with this?
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$645,000,000 worth of cattle that didn't exist?
What has Tyson Foods been up to?
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After 2015, I'd promised myself that the next time cow/heifer prices went crazy that I was going to sell as many as possible.
Starting to look like I'm going to find out if I'm full of shit or not...
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God bless the "helper cow" that quietly and calmly walks through the gate, into the barn, leading the way for the cow you actually need to get in and help.
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Many of these cattle drought dispersion sales are going to turn out to have been "final, going out of business" sales.
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Did you know that the United States imports beef from Ireland, Netherlands, Japan, Chile, France, Poland, Honduras, Croatia, Spain, and Lithuania?
Probably not, since we do not have Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling.
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Pet Peeve: When folks price hay by the bale rather than by the ton.
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How's that old saying go? A late summer, JBS fire is a sign of....
an early freeze.
six more weeks of winter.
corruption.
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Rural Rich:
Step out your front door and walk a mile or more in any direction without seeing a single person.
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I'd like to congratulate U.S. Beef Packers for reaching record boxed beef prices.
Not often that a sector of an industry is so openly corrupt, shameless and greedy.
You'll be excited to know that both American consumers and producers are watching your actions closely.
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+40% of cattle producers have gone out of business since the 80s.
What would have retaining even 1% have meant to rural schools, hospitals and communities.
To the feed store, the cafe, the movie theater?
The trend continues, when do YOU decide to join the fight?
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They cancelled National Western 2021.
It's not working to continue down this path. Folks, need to get back to living their lives.
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I judge people by the quality of the cattle in their photographs.
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Does the Supreme Courts decision on Chevron give cattle producers increased cover to push back against USDA's mandated EID rules?
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👀
"Had 27 eid tags missing in a pen of 146 Holsteins once, sent them to slaughter plant and found 24 of them in the stomach of one steer, yeah they work great" - Lucas Moorse
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Has anyone gone pickup shopping lately without mumbling "they must be out of their damn minds?"
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@RepBurgessOwens
@BurgessOwens
I'd be curious to know how an unarmed crowd took over, arguably the most protected, building in the United States....
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Just weaned calves, 90 days early. May the Lord have mercy on my soul....
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"My rural community is dying faster than yours."
I realize nobody wants to win this competition, but out of morbid curiosity, let's see what's happening out there.
Graduated HS in 2001, class of 34.
2021 class has 16.
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It's happening!!!
USDA is going after the crooks, cheats and complacent, giving Americans truth in labeling.
If it is says "Product of the USA" it needs to be born, raised and processed here. Simple, honest, long overdue.
Next step, mCOOL.
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I believe...
The American consumer has the right to know where their beef was born, raised and harvested.
I believe...
US cattle producers should be afforded the opportunity to differentiate their product in the meat case.
@RepThomasMassie
@joerogan
@DonaldJTrumpJr
@POTUS
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When your socks and undies display where they were made.
But...
You have no idea where the beef in the meat case was born, raised and harvested....
Something is wrong.
Demand Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling.
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Starting to look like another year where those that weaned them on the truck got rewarded and those that "did everything right" get their teeth knocked out.
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What age were you when you realized you were no longer young?
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Ya just have to tip your hat to this family.
No doubt it was hard... But they did it anyway.
In three short years we have built our brand of high-quality dry aged beef
@HertzogMeatCo
and now our beef is in over a 1000 restaurant and we are we are completely sold out every week thank you
@sgcfoodservice
for believing in
@HertzogMeatCo
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Folks need to realize that the Ag information they are presented is highly choreographed
The average guy that cracks open a farm publication or listens to a radio show over the noon hour has never considered that what he's hearing is being force fed by the monied and the elite
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Anyone else notice that the Ag Organizations that encouraged producers "to tell their story" don't seem very pleased when the script doesn't follow the wishes of their global corporate overlords?
#somuch4thephotoops
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I'm struggling to put into words how huge this is for cattle producers... In hopes I'll hype it enough that you'll read it....
But I'm just stuck at WoW!!!!
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I'd like to make an endorsement.
Understand I'm not famous, I don't live in Iowa and I'm a fairly radical Republican.
Yet, as a rancher, living in a rural community.
Congressional candidate
@JDScholten
, IA 4th focused campaign on antitrust and protecting farms is refreshing.
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My pandemic is scarier than yours!
People in urban areas rightfully concerned about food shortages while American Agriculture is going broke trying to produce, process, and distribute it.
This is what we should be talking about.
#COVID19
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Sneaky little bastards.
They really are coming for us...
🚨 Hidden in this week’s Omnibus:
Lobbyists got $15 million dollars to implement ELECTRONIC TRACKING of all cattle in the U.S.
No law authorizes this!
It will be used by the GREEN agenda to limit beef production, and by the corporate meat oligopoly to DOMINATE small ranchers.
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"...they've really bred a lot of what we liked, except for the black hide, out of Angus..." -Corbitt Wall
Angus breeders better quit screwing around chasing these paper cattle before we've handed market share back to the Herefords and everybody else.
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I know people are scared. I know, there is a shortage of toilet paper.
BUT
If everyone could refrain from wiping their ass with the US Constitution, it would be appreciated.
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I'm bullish. I'm happy.
Yet, in all the cattle market excitement...
I hope folks remember to get here it cost us hundreds of feeders, thousands of cow calf guys and a million head of momma cows.
There's still a need to fix what's been broken.
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A JBS exec is having a meeting with their insurance agent:
Insurance agent: Ok, we've got you insured for a cyber attack, fire and flood.
JBS exec: ok, I understand the fire and cyber attack insurance... But how do you start a flood?
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Obviously, Twitter is in agreement that a good farm hand is worth about 100k....
My question then is just how much money are you farm owners making?
This is what ag & small business employers are competing against.
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If you've ever sat in a salebarn and watched an old gummer cow, old enough to vote, stumble into the ring with a half dozen brands and a couple ear notches...
You should be terrified that in the world of eIDs, you might be the original owner and only owner of record...
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They just thought US cattle producers were pissed off...
Wait until it becomes wildly known that we are now exporting large amounts of lean trim to China after years of being told we needed imports for the lean trim....
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Cattle guys!!
Seriously, we've watched the dairies, the hogs, the poultry. What is happening currently abroad. The level of denial required to not see the writing on the wall is amazing.....and insane.
@kansasangus
@RyanLoseke
I grew up in the poultry industry. Complete top down integration. Ppl go in debt up to their eyeballs to build a facility up to specs and secure a contract. About every 5-10 years the standards change and you gotta do updates. They love to keep their serfs in debt.
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I've always understood why mommas might not have wanted their sons to grow up to be cowboys...
But have we reached a point in the cattle industry where dads are starting to feel the same way?
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A couple years ago, it was fairly common to see a producer or two calling out "membership driven" Ag Organizations on Twitter. (For their lack of transparency and backroom dealings) Today you had two members of the US House of Representatives throw down with NCBA and Farm Bureau!
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My polling place: small town Kansas. I step up to the table where two women are working.
The first woman says, "Hello, Adam."
The second woman, "How is your mom doing?
You know what the very next thing they say to me is, "Place your ID under the scanner."
#VoterIDNow
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Sold a couple of older cows at the salebarn last week.
I'm thinking the entire herd better start minding their P's and Q's...
(It's nice, but good grief is our industry volatile!)
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When the shock wears off and Americans start discussing how an unarmed crowd stormed perhaps the most protected building in the United States....
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Once the video went viral...
These feed yards did the industry a disservice by not putting out press releases that quantified and explained their losses.
Lack of transparency leads to conspiracy and rumor.
It's a learning experience. Hope the industry gets the lesson.
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Drought is certainly displayed in the Beef Cow numbers but don't underestimate lack of profitability.
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I find it personally satisfying and frankly amazing that the struggles of the independent cattle producer has broken through and is being presented to the American people.
The NCBA mouth pieces that tried to silence dissent are losing
Thank you
@glennbeck
@joerogan
@TomiLahren
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I just want to run cows
No desire to be an AGvocate, nor the physique to be an influencer
But I care about the beef industry and rural America
The best Ag Investigative Reporter in the country is
@LonesomeLands
Embarrassed I hadn't subscribed until today. You should as well
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Riddle me this...
Why isn't rapidly declining domestic cow numbers a huge discussion topic amongst corn farmers and grain market analyst?
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Sustainability.
Every time you see the word just know that some do gooder is about to try and steal your freedom.
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Did you know that the United States imports beef from Costa Rica?
Probably not, since we do not have Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling.
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This ain't no Field of Dreams folks.
If you build it, they will...still not allow you to play ball.
@JDScholten
We apologize to our customers. Despite positive feedback from our local Hy-Vee stores and their management, corporate office (Des Moines Iowa) decided to remove our product. You can continue to buy direct from HERTZOG MEAT CO.
#Supportlocal
#USABEEF
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It's getting very difficult for anyone to explain why the cattle market isn't just burning red hot.
Input cost and drought made a tinder box.
Smallest domestic cowherd in sixty years. That's the match.
Lower carcass weights-gasoline.
And we barely get some smoke?
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If you've never drank directly from a windmill surrounded by pasture in all directions, you should add it to your bucket list.
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Senator Rounds legislation to prohibit mandatory Cattle eIDs
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Ladies and Gents,
We've got ourselves a BILL!
Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling!!!!!
Cattle Group Applauds Sens. Thune and Tester Introducing Mandatory COOL Bill for Beef
@kansasangus
@seedcattleguy
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Don't let them use the word sustainable when what they describe will destroy your land, your community and your family.
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Did you know that the United States imports beef from Argentina?
Probably not, since we do not have Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling.
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FWIW to those with careers in the Ag Industry but not involved in production.
I cringe, when you try to make yourself relatable by sharing that you grew up on a farm/ranch.
It's is hubris to think those teenage years and a week vacation every other year provide you with insight
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I think mandated eIDs are so unpopular out in the country, it's probably good if NCBA moves policy forward to destroy any shred of nostalgic credibility anyone was still clinging onto.
#NCBAdoesnotrepresentme
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Did you know that the United States had imported 902,129 head of live cattle as of June 2021?
This is another reason we need Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling.
Perspective: Mississippi has a few more, about 930,000 cows, Utah a few less, around 800,000
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“We used to have small packers, medium-sized packers and large packers in Kansas. Now we have 80 percent of packing controlled by four companies, two of which are Brazilian owned. And those four packers are controlling the prices." - Kris Kobach, Senate candidate (Kansas)
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Imagine if a teensy bit of that Beef Checkoff money went to spotlight folks like Hoang or Dr. Shawn Baker...
Interesting that perhaps the greatest evil of the misappropriated funds is the missed opportunities!
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Probably should be retweeted today.
Electronic tracking of livestock is the central bank digital currency of farming.
Giving government and multinational corporations an off-switch on the marketability of livestock will put them in complete control.
It would be the end of independent American cattlemen.
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