2021 Western Drought

[Larry Caldwell]

Our river just got back into it's riverbanks. It had escaped for a few weeks. Hopefully it will dry out now.

How do you like those beef prices? Stocker operations sold off their herds last year because there was no pasture or hay. They have worked their way through the feedlots, and it will be a couple years after the drought ends before supply catches up. My neighbor runs beef, and his hay crop last year was cut by 50%. He really had to thin his herd. You are lucky to live in the 1/3 of America that has had rain.

They have been griping at people for decades to eat less red meat. It looks like $7/lb. chuck roast will finally do that.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Neighbor just told me she paid $3000 for a grain fed beef, butchered, cut, packaged and frozen. Sounds about right...

 

[Menagerie-Manor]

It looks like this year's drought will be worse than last year. 71% of the continental US is in drought conditions.

As drought lingers, Lake Powell about to drop below critical level

SALT LAKE CITY — Due to an abnormally dry winter, Lake Powell on the Colorado River is on the brink of seeing its water levels temporarily drop below a critical

www.capitalpress.com

Been ok down here, you guys hurting up there.

 

[ovrszd]

Neighbor just told me she paid $3000 for a grain fed beef, butchered, cut, packaged and frozen. Sounds about right...

We paid $4.11 p/lb of meat in the freezer.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

We paid $4.11 p/lb of meat in the freezer.

I might have to go elk hunting this year. Don’t eat a lot of meat anymore.

(Then again, I don’t eat a lot of anything anymore. Managing diabetes kind of forces you to be aware of what your eating, and a continuous glucose monitor that “alarms” every five minutes until you get back in range, anytime you go high, giving instant feedback, dissuades you from eating wrong.)

But, I do like 6 or 7 ounces a couple of times a week.

 

[ovrszd]

I might have to go elk hunting this year. Don’t eat a lot of meat anymore.

(Then again, I don’t eat a lot of anything anymore. Managing diabetes kind of forces you to be aware of what your eating, and a continuous glucose monitor that “alarms” every five minutes until you get back in range, anytime you go high, giving instant feedback, dissuades you from eating wrong.)

But, I do like 6 or 7 ounces a couple of times a week.

We don't have health issues but also don't eat a LOT of red meat. We split the beef with family and only got a quarter. That will last us a year or more.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

They're talking new dust bowl. Rainfall in the southern part of the Midwest is almost nonexistent. I'm dealing with extreme drought where I live too, and am setting up used above ground pools to store enough water to grow a garden this summer.

 

[lman]

We paid $4.11 p/lb of meat in the freezer.

We paid $2.90 that included processing for a 1/4 last week. I do give the farmer that raised it some of my hay.

 

[ovrszd]

We paid $2.90 that included processing for a 1/4 last week. I do give the farmer that raised it some of my hay.

So he gave you the beef and you paid processing?

 

[lman]

$2.40 + .50 processing.