My favorite is it takes 2400 gallons of water, 12 pounds of grain, 35 pounds of topsoil to produce one - that is one pound of meat.
Someone sent this to our local paper. I wrote back that given all the cattle on feed, the numbers slaughtered, and the amount of grain produced, all numbers available from the USDA, the writer's numbers did not add up as we were consuming more grain than we produced, not allowing for exports. I noted that the water numbers likely included grain and grass production and that if we pulled cattle off pasture soil water retention would certainly fall creating massive fields of dead slowly decaying material that would adversely affect everything.
There was a letter today fretting over the release of carbon into the atmosphere via the burning of fossil fuels where "the carbon will remain forever." Seemingly the carbon cycle wasn't taught at this guy's school or he was absent that day. Furthermore, where does he think all the carbon in fossil fuels came from? Could it be the Earth's original atmosphere that was largely carbon and uninhabitable?
This is what happens when schools do not teach chemistry, physics, or economics, when emotion and sentiment override reason and logic, when anthropomorphization takes hold and animals are thought to be equal to humans, when it is conceivable that an abused animal can be a productive animal, when it is believed that your property is their property.
Upload one or more videos to your post. Photo filesizes should be less than 300K and Videos, less than 2MB. Formats allowed are gif, jpg, png, ogg, mp4, mov, and avi. Be sure to use filenames without spaces or special characters, and filetypes of 3 digits lower case.
We sell tractor parts! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today. [ About Us ]
Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
... [Read Article]
Latest Ad:
1964 I-H 140 tractor with cultivators and sidedresser. Starts and runs good. Asking 2650. CALL RON AT 502-319-1952
[More Ads]
All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any part of this website, including design and content, without written permission is strictly prohibited. Trade Marks and Trade Names contained and used in this Website are those of others, and are used in this Website in a descriptive sense to refer to the products of others. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy
TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V.
