What's Causing the SURGE in Beef Prices? Joel Salatin

I'm in southern mn, and praying, for snow, ice, rain, anything. It's been 3 years with very little rain.

We live in central Pa. We have had bad weather four years out the last seven years. This winter , we have not had very much snow , so that is not a good sign of a normal summer rains. Thank You for your videos , they give me hope to go through another year of farming.

Here in Maryland, the periodic droughts and higher winter temperatures are literally killing the forests...trees everywhere have dead limbs in the canopy and it is getting worse.

As a child, in the 60's, we were taught that the Dust Bowl happens every 30 years on a regular and predictable cycle. A multi year drought happened in the 1930's, the 1960's, and again in the 1990's. I remember the prairie fires. How did ranchers and farmers not know a multi year drought would happen again, like clockwork, in the 2020's? Are there really that many new farmers and ranchers?

Building in resiliency, ThankQ

Thank you❤

Geoengineering. Drought be design….on purpose. Control the weather control the food control the people

Numbers are down might have something to do with someone dictating the price they will pay for your product. It's extremely hard to make a reasonable profit on small operations.

$3/lb 400-600lb steers

I’ve heard Joel enough & read enough of his books to know he’d recommend ponds to everyone raising animals and/or crops. He mentions in his books, ponds can alleviate drought for a time. But during more prolonged or more severe drought, the pond can get used up. But it usually helps both animals and crops to get through the drought. (He uses his many ponds to irrigate his pastures during droughts so his animals still have plenty to eat. This also avoids having to buy extra hay for their feed, so it keeps costs down) I loved the explanation of how after drought, the water system works to take time seeping into deep areas before the springs & creeks can fill and the refill ponds. I do wonder though, how well does that work in dry areas like Texas? Where it’s flat and maybe there aren’t natural springs nearby? Still, having ponds in dry areas can only be a help, even if it’s shorter-lived or possibly works differently to refill than in the mountains.

You have now heard the term "Mega-Drought". This is a 25-30 yr. event occurring once every thousand years.

Ponds are a must, but when you have stupidity in control, that won't let you build ponds, you'll never help fix the problem. Oregon's core of engineering really isn't about helping the system.

I am in the deep South we are not in a drought this year that was last year last summer through what feels like December idk it was awhile before we had a good rain but that's stopped this yr. Not that I don't appreciate his analysis just saying it's inaccurate

How bout just being happy with higher prices.?

Joel you are naive to think that all those ideas of why are wrong. The 3 letters are bastardizing our food and it’s naive to think different.

It sounds nice Joel, but that doesn’t make sense either. If it was drought that was causing all this, more ranchers would be sending more cattle to slaughter because they can’t feed them, and if they’re sending more cattle to slaughter the prices go down because there’s an influx of a supply. So your hypothesis makes no sense either.

Very sinful to kill cow's. Every one of us, life after life, is knowingly or unknowingly committing sinful activities. I may knowingly kill an animal, and that is certainly sinful, but even if I do it unknowingly, it is also sinful. While walking on the street we unknowingly kill so many ants, and in the course of our other ordinary dealings—while cooking, while taking water, while using a mortar and pestle to crush spices—we kill so many living beings. Unless we remain Kṛṣṇa conscious, we are liable to be punished for all these unknowingly committed sinful acts. If a child unknowingly touches fire, does it mean that the fire will excuse the child and not burn? No. Nature’s law is so strict, so stringent, that there is no question of an excuse. Even in ordinary law, ignorance is no excuse. If we go to court and say, “I did not know that this action was criminal,” this plea does not mean that we shall be excused. Similarly, ignorance is no excuse for transgressing nature’s laws. Therefore, if we actually want to be free from the reactions of sinful life, we must be Kṛṣṇa conscious, for then Kṛṣṇa will free us from all sinful reactions. It is therefore recommended, kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ [Cc. adi 17.31]—one should always chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, so that Kṛṣṇa will save us. Teachings of QUEEN KUNTī