Re: Perspective?......Right!


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Posted by Phil in Idaho on Monday, May 21, 2001 at 10:42PM :

In Reply to: Re: DC vs GM posted by Dean on Monday, May 21, 2001 at 7:40PM :

Lets Talk Perspective. In 1978(the year I graduated HS) a new 4x4 truck of any make was around $9,000. The calves I sold at the livestock sale were selling for around $400 a head at weaning. A new truck now is selling for around $30,000+ the calves I sold this last fall sold for an average of $425 a head. I'm not even going to get into the grain and corn markets as depresed as they are they are going for less than in '78. Now, I would like to see you or any one out there live for one month or even one week eating just what you could chew off your new truck! Of course, high food prices will come when we are buying all our food off shore, from third world slums where there are no ag restrictions and we can't control what goes into the product, but right now everyone wants cheap food! I just hope I can hold on till someone realizes that what I am producing is worth as much as the rig they are driving or the fuel they are burning in it!



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