Tariffs! Most on the left are screaming, “What an idiot!” And quite a few on the right are saying, “I support what the president is doing as long as it doesn’t affect my pocketbook.”
Well guess what. You never make big changes on trade that doesn’t disrupt the markets. China is the master on manipulation. And ruthless when it comes to his own people, in my opinion. Look on the back of every item in your house or if you go to shop this week and see how many items say made in China.
I’m not against that country, but I am against a country that uses his people as slaves to control the world market. As for Mexico and Canada, I say get control of drugs and fentanyl coming to the United States. It’s not that the people of these countries are bad it’s about the influence of gangs. I, too, do not want to take less for my cattle as I have several fat cattle to sell in the next six weeks.
I had one pen of fat cattle that were grid on a market based at $209.87 and brought back $220 per hundredweight. They graded 97% choice and prime. Four head were dark cutters and four were too old but yielded $65.95. I asked the feedlot operator— “Were they gaunt when you weighed them?” He said, “No.” They went into the feedlot at 620 pounds and were fed for 214 days. I hate to disappoint some of you, but the cattle were mixed colored. I told a friend of mine this story as his are extremely nice cattle and he knows what mine normally look like and I said, “You just need to handle better cattle.”
I just figured out how I am going to die. My boys will unplug my life support just to plug in their phone.
I learned a long time ago that being a man is hard. We have no wigs, no makeup, no extra-long eyelash extensions and no nail paintings. If you are ugly—you are just ugly.
The best friendships for guys are built on a solid foundation of alcohol, sarcasm, pranks, same ex-girlfriends and a dislike for the same people.
Today’s 3-year-olds can turn on laptops, use apps and fix the remote. All I could do at 3 was eat mud.
Editor’s note: The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not represent the view of High Plains Journal. Jerry Nine, Woodward, Oklahoma, is a lifetime cattleman who grew up on his family’s ranch near Slapout, Oklahoma.
