HORACE MCQUEEN: And a New Year Dawns…
Lots of water has flowed under the bridge in the year 2016. Just hope it rains again at the right time in 2017 — and cattle prices go up. As we look forward to the New Year, the “experts” say cattle prices will not improve for the next two years.
That’s the same “experts” who say folks at the grocery store don’t care where their beef comes from—as long as it is priced right. That, even though unbiased surveys show the consumer wants to know if their beef is raised in the U.S. — or Mexico, Brazil or Australia.
Cattle producers are being “taxed” to the tune of over 100-MILLION DOLLARS a year coming from the dollar and two dollar a head mandatory beef check offs. Not one cent of that money can be used to promote AMERICAN BEEF — only used to promote beef as a commodity.
Count on Wal-Mart and their leaders who are out for the bucks to sell products that incite controversy. The big box store monstrosity is selling t-shirts and sweatshirts emblazoned with “Black Lives Matter” and “Bulletproof”. Wal-Mart reports they will remove the “bullet proof” logo due to customer complaints.
The East Texas deer population seems to be exploding in many counties.
And land owners are discovering there’s money to be made in hunting leases. Being close to major cities with plenty of willing hunters is a major asset often overlooked. Dr. Judon Fambrough, an attorney with Texas A & M at College Station, has written a booklet with the title “The Texas Deer Lease”. It’s a top notch publication and covers most everything that the landowner should have in the deer lease.
Also, it provides protection for the hunter who wants to lease the property. It is available at the local county agents office or on-line through the Texas Real Estate Research Center library.
And finally, the Obama family isn’t leaving our White House residence without continued criticism of the American voter. They just don’t seem to understand that their grand agenda for this nation was repudiated at the polls when Hillary Clinton lost her race.
Mrs. Obama said on the Oprah Winfrey show last week that she and her husband are “feeling what no hope feels like”. President Obama also got his two cents worth in. He said, “If I could have had a third term, I would have beaten Trump.”What losers!