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    Pest control companies

    Other than Termite prevention when building are a joke. :devil2:
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    Petroleum from waste biomass

    Doc has been running his Delorean off of biomass processed through his Mr. Fusion since '85 :lol2:
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    Fertilizer and Ethanol

    Fertilizer is up for the same reason oil and chemicals are up. There are only a few people producing these things. A couple of years ago Monsanto bought out nearly every company that was making generic round-up. Shortly after proudct prices began to rise. Competition is a good thing ...
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    Kill the fatted calf

    Not only that but large companies like GM that have been around for long enough have thousands of pensions they are paying on with no current productivity.
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    Gray or Grey?

    I was under the assumption that gray was the precursor to grey, but both are widely accepted because no one knows any better.
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    Slaughter houses

    They didnt label ours it was only grounr beef or a cuuck roast but in other cases they have a label maker similar to a supermarket.
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    Slaughter houses

    Yesterday we picked 300 lbs. of ground beef and chuck roasts and to my suprise everything was vaccum pacled. It was actually pretty shocking for a moment. All my life the meat we have gotten from this slaughter house has been wrapped in brown butchers paper then they switched to white butchers...
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    foto.

    "You can get a good look at a ribeye by sticking your head up a cows rear end but wouldnt you just take the butchers word for it"
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    Sharpening a ceramic knife

    HOLD ON :!: :!: :!: Dont lose a ceramic blade kinfe, and while your at it dont use a ceramic blade knife as a utlilty kinfe, and please dont use the electric knife sharpener again. For starters what brand of knife do you have? Did you want a ceramic blade? What is your intended use for...
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    Subsidized farmers take note.

    Subsidies were placed in affect to control prices and ensure an adequate food supply, and they have done just that. While ALL of our input costs have gone unchecked! Dont get me wrong there are plenty of insurance farmers out there that collect their CRP, base acre payments, subsidies, and crop...
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    Politics Board ?

    I know this had to be brought up before and yes politics do get messy but is that a good enough reason to to deprive us of sharing information and expressing our views on this subject?
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    Rice Traders Panic

    As China, India and others industrialize more the people will have a larger income and will consume more. This coupled with the fact that world wide rice acreage will be down due to high fuel, ferterlizer costs and acreage given up to other crops should continue to drive rice prices up. For...
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    I think we should say bushel of wheat for a barrel of oil

    At one time a barrle of rice and a barrle of oil were compatable...hope those days are coming back!
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    More Biofuel hoopla

    As a sugar cane farmer I can assure you that it grows much better on sandy land then clay land. Most all of the mills are based on some waterway, which means they are based on sandy land and as the acreage spreads they have no choice but to plant the clay ground. The sandy land will...
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    Fuel and spring sales

    If he is a watcher he may consider a plane ticket. Last summer we went to visit some famliy for a long weekend and it was cheaper to fly.
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    What a difference a week makes!

    Looks like proof of global warming to me :lol2:
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    Key lock gas caps

    Belive me it is still a problem. We have a fleet of 14 tractors & trailers that we haul our rice and sugar cane crops. I moniter fuel consumption as close as I can but when you hire that many drivers for seasonal work I know we are asking for trouble.
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    Get Ready La.

    It passed pretty rough last night. Dropped just over 2 inches and the temp has been falling since.
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    Slow Cooking

    Good point I forgot about the Lipton onion soup mix.
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    Slow Cooking

    I find beans to be nothing more than a filler.
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