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<blockquote data-quote="Bigfoot" data-source="post: 1375965" data-attributes="member: 17956"><p>Personally, I think it's time that we took a minute, and actually analyzed the writing on the wall. We are just another industry that has put under by cheap imports. We won't bounce back. We won't have a come back. It's just gone. I live in a town, that's entire economy is based on manufacturing. I can name product after product that left here to never to return. We just met the same fate. The packer was makin a dollar, and we were makin a dime. They found somebody willing to perform the same task for a nickel. </p><p></p><p>We say it, and I guess it sounds cliche, but what many of us do is way of life. It's not what I do, it's what I am. I felt the same way about tobacco absolutely refused to raise one single stalk for the companies, and never will. I still miss it. I'm afraid cattle will go the same way for me. I hate to let anybody down, and not be optimistic, but I'm not optimistic at all. I've seen it too many times, on too many other products. </p><p></p><p>I truly am sorry to feel this way, and I wish for the younger generation that it wasn't happening. I sat my son down this evening and tried to explain to him. He has been under the full understanding for a while now, that the market has fallen. It's started to affect many of our spending practices. He didn't take it so well, that this might be something that we used to do. Much as I love it, I won't do it for nothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigfoot, post: 1375965, member: 17956"] Personally, I think it's time that we took a minute, and actually analyzed the writing on the wall. We are just another industry that has put under by cheap imports. We won't bounce back. We won't have a come back. It's just gone. I live in a town, that's entire economy is based on manufacturing. I can name product after product that left here to never to return. We just met the same fate. The packer was makin a dollar, and we were makin a dime. They found somebody willing to perform the same task for a nickel. We say it, and I guess it sounds cliche, but what many of us do is way of life. It's not what I do, it's what I am. I felt the same way about tobacco absolutely refused to raise one single stalk for the companies, and never will. I still miss it. I'm afraid cattle will go the same way for me. I hate to let anybody down, and not be optimistic, but I'm not optimistic at all. I've seen it too many times, on too many other products. I truly am sorry to feel this way, and I wish for the younger generation that it wasn't happening. I sat my son down this evening and tried to explain to him. He has been under the full understanding for a while now, that the market has fallen. It's started to affect many of our spending practices. He didn't take it so well, that this might be something that we used to do. Much as I love it, I won't do it for nothing. [/QUOTE]
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