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#112
butterflywing , 03-19-2011 06:33 AM
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in a lot of stores, there's a section of meat that has a sell-by date that's today. they mark those down to almost nothing, because they can't sell them tomorrow. however, you can buy them and freeze them today, just as you can buy them and cook them tomorrow. i've gotten good buys that way. ask at your supermarket. there's a store near me that sold shell steak for $2.99 not long ago. i bought 6 and froze them in ziplocs. i buy the big ones and we share one. guess what we're having tonight. if we were bigger red-meat-eaters i would have invested in more. i'm very careful about dating everything.
#113
jpthequilter , 03-19-2011 02:58 PM
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I'm a farmer's daughter - my dad never had a hired hand.Originally Posted by Kas
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The expense to plant corn has skyrocketed the past few years, we as small farmers could not even afford to plant it. We will plant corn this year for the first time in about 4 years and only to give the soil a break . (Soil likes and needs rotation)
Corn has been going up as a food staple because it is being diverted into the fuel business. Write to your congressperson and ask them to stop the ethanol subsidies. We should be eating our corn, not driving it. Not to mention that it is terrible for your engine. So the price of feed corn due to ethanol plus the cost of oil is what is making food prices skyrocket. It is only going to get worse before it gets better.
Originally Posted by raedar63
Corn prices may be the culprit?The expense to plant corn has skyrocketed the past few years, we as small farmers could not even afford to plant it. We will plant corn this year for the first time in about 4 years and only to give the soil a break . (Soil likes and needs rotation)
Spent my teen age years working the farm. I have a question, has the weather been bad for farming these past few years? I know rain spoiled a lot of cotton in the last few years...but corn is grown widely and used for a lot of competing industries, maybe the demand is greater than the production can meet?
I hate to deprive you of part of your argument, but the ethanol won't hurt your car. In fact it runs smoother, because, for one thing it raises the octane rating, and absorbs any condensation water in the fuel and carries it out through the the burning of the fuel in the cylinders.
It is true that your car won't run as far on ethanol as it will on gasoline though, so maybe that was what you meant?
#114
donnalynett , 03-19-2011 05:02 PM
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We get less mileage with the ethanol. It will damage small engines that are not built to use with ethanol such as 4-wheelers, lawn mowers, etc.
#116
Ethanol is making gas prices so much lower! We have the lowest food price in the world! Our farmer need to make money! My husband is a farmer - he works so hard! People don't understand the work involved as well as the stress as as well as well as the chance we take every year. American are so spoiled with the cheap food. Our food supply is cheaP and so safe. We need benefit the AMERICAN FARMER!
#117
Costco is about 50 cents cheaper...probably the best around in a retail store. Course, you have to buy a good size pkg...$16-20 but is the only place I buy meat because it is always very fresh and freezes well.
