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US Customs are now taking a photo and fingerprinting ALL visitors apart from 28 countries, basically Europe, Japan etc.

 

Good for the Brazilans that it's now doing the same for all US citizens entering Brazil. Tit for tat so to speak.

 

I also see that the FBI wants the bookings list for ALL Vegas Casinos over the new year period.

 

USA = Scary place

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I had narrowed down Canada as one of the two countries that I would flee to. I guess Canada is not too highly thought of amongst the stoolies here, so I guess I'm stuck going to New Mexico.

Hey how come New Mexico gets to be a country and Idaho doesn't? I demand a recount! :lol:

 

Mark, I know you live an die by the tape. I don't. I live and die by what is happening in the real world. I am surrounded by and deal with hundreds of farmers and ranchers. Many of these growers are contract farmers and as such have benefitted very little if at all by the rise in the commodity pits. Probably most that did were actually playing the futures market. Our local Ag TV news show spends abouty as much time on futures playing as it does on things more relevant to production, like water, weather, pests etc. Likely the majority that did well this year are cattle ranchers, but not as well a you think. The rising commodity prices affected their input costs and also has the effect of raising the price of any replacement cattle they buy, locking in a higher cost basis of future production. Farmers have a long history of very few back to back good years. You have to admire their unbounded optimism. Farming in this valley is slowly dying as farmer after farmer sells out his top notch fully irrigated farmland for the holy grail of Californication via Suburbia Plastique. I can't say I blame them. As farmland the land should only be valued at what it is capable of producing, and that's well under $1,000 per acre in most cases. As future suburbia it brings multiples of that.

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Hey how come New Mexico gets to be a country and Idaho doesn't? I demand a recount! :lol:

 

Mark, I know you live an die by the tape.  I don't.  I live and die by what is happening in the real world.  I am surrounded by and deal with hundreds of farmers and ranchers.  Many of these growers are contract farmers and as such have benefitted very little if at all by the rise in the commodity pits.  Probably most that did were actually playing the futures market.  Our local Ag TV news show spends abouty as much time on futures playing as it does on things more relevant to production, like water, weather, pests etc.  Likely the majority that did well this year are cattle ranchers, but not as well a you think.  The rising commodity prices affected their input costs and also has the effect of raising the price of any replacement cattle they buy, locking in a higher cost basis of future production.  Farmers have a long history of very few back to back good years.  You have to admire their unbounded optimism.  Farming in this valley is slowly dying as farmer after farmer sells out his top notch fully irrigated farmland for the holy grail of Californication via Suburbia Plastique.  I can't say I blame them.  As farmland the land should only be valued at what it is capable of producing, and that's well under $1,000 per acre in most cases.  As future suburbia it brings multiples of that.

Four companies own most upstream cattle processing facilities. Thus those "bold independent" ranchers are having trouble because of the monopolies that set a price on cattle based on the "free market". I doubt the ranchers are even aware enough to realize that four companies price fixing is not a "free market". But maybe if they grovel good enough, the Big Boss will give them a few more pennies a pound. What you gonna do? Processing cattles is rocket science, only the illegals employed by the Big Boss can handle it.

 

I know price fixing to be a blatant reality because of the bizarre drop in feeder cattle in March of this year. Australia had just had a BAD harvest and been forced to import food. No way was there a "glut" in the cow market. That didn't stop your ranchers friends from selling for what the Big Boss said the cow was worth, eh?

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