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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1697647" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>Bottom line is that most of the population is so far removed from first hand knowledge of agriculture that they don't know how it's done. There are plenty of opportunistic folks and groups with agendas that do a lot better job of spreading propaganda and misinformation to make farmers and ranchers look bad. </p><p>The way that people handle and manage their livestock has changed a lot over time, and the Temple Grandin type methods have been helpful in a lot of ways as far as making working with cattle more stress free and safe for both them and people. The end product has also been improved as well. Growing up every body I know used tobacco sticks and hollered to work and load cattle now it's a much less physical and a lot quieter. Obviously still some stress involved but hopefully less. </p><p>As for the end product, slaughter is slaughter and no way to sugar coat that but steps can and should be taken to minimize stress as much as possible leading up to that. Think reducing risks of dark cutters at the very least.</p><p>We are doing short term rentals with the main house here and as such guests have the opportunity if desired to see a bit of the farm life. We are very open to answering questions and discussing the cattle industry. Most folks that we have met with have had very little if any first hand experience on a farm so it's neat to be able to share what that's like, in terms of answering questions hopefully giving folks a glimpse of what our life and work is like. We get asked a lot of things that people will start out with saying this may be a silly question but. Our response is no it's not a silly question, it's not someone's fault that they don't know a particular detail, when they have never had a reason to know it. Things that we on this forum take for granted because we have done it for years is a totally foreign concept to many simply because they haven't been around it. Our goal is to hopefully spread some truth and reality about farming and give folks a better understanding of it. </p><p>We care for our cattle as best we can, and try to treat and provide for them as best we can. We take the BQA guidelines seriously. We can't control what goes on at the next step of the production chain but we can do our part while we have the animals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1697647, member: 24816"] Bottom line is that most of the population is so far removed from first hand knowledge of agriculture that they don’t know how it’s done. There are plenty of opportunistic folks and groups with agendas that do a lot better job of spreading propaganda and misinformation to make farmers and ranchers look bad. The way that people handle and manage their livestock has changed a lot over time, and the Temple Grandin type methods have been helpful in a lot of ways as far as making working with cattle more stress free and safe for both them and people. The end product has also been improved as well. Growing up every body I know used tobacco sticks and hollered to work and load cattle now it’s a much less physical and a lot quieter. Obviously still some stress involved but hopefully less. As for the end product, slaughter is slaughter and no way to sugar coat that but steps can and should be taken to minimize stress as much as possible leading up to that. Think reducing risks of dark cutters at the very least. We are doing short term rentals with the main house here and as such guests have the opportunity if desired to see a bit of the farm life. We are very open to answering questions and discussing the cattle industry. Most folks that we have met with have had very little if any first hand experience on a farm so it’s neat to be able to share what that’s like, in terms of answering questions hopefully giving folks a glimpse of what our life and work is like. We get asked a lot of things that people will start out with saying this may be a silly question but. Our response is no it’s not a silly question, it’s not someone’s fault that they don’t know a particular detail, when they have never had a reason to know it. Things that we on this forum take for granted because we have done it for years is a totally foreign concept to many simply because they haven’t been around it. Our goal is to hopefully spread some truth and reality about farming and give folks a better understanding of it. We care for our cattle as best we can, and try to treat and provide for them as best we can. We take the BQA guidelines seriously. We can’t control what goes on at the next step of the production chain but we can do our part while we have the animals. [/QUOTE]
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