Smithfield Foods closing 35 hog farm sites in Missouri

[Mad Trapper]

My cousins raise beef cattle for breeders. Very high quality cows. Another cousin is a retired butcher, still has processing equipment. They cull steers each fall. I'm seeing about helping out for a share and/or buying a 1/4.

Right now here, best meats/eggs are local farmers markets, beef pork chicken, more expensive but you know exactly where it comes from. Eggs too, they are so much better than store stuff.

My zone drew 100% for doe tag applicants, so I can take 2 bucks and a doe. Also can buy a 2nd doe tag for $5 in my zone. Venison I love more than beef. I also have the bears back around 1st season starts sept. The deer/bear are garden/orchard fed by me.......

[Chiefster23]

My neighbor turned me on to a local farmer that raises quality beef and butchers them without any added chemicals or preservatives. So soon I am going to buy a sample pack and see just how good it is. Store bought beef around here sucks. Even the local butcher shop has been going down hill lately.

[Prepared One]

I love meat. I am a meat and potatoes kinda guy. Hit the damn cow over the head drag him across the coals and put him on a plate I always say. I could eat more healthy, quit drinking and swearing, and I would live longer they say, but why the hell would I want too?

Fortunately, we do have a couple of good old fashioned butcher shops in the area so we can get good quality meats and fresh sausages. We utilize as much as we can the local farmers market for taters, vegies, and eggs.

[shootbrownelk]

I fear much more to come, this is only the beginning. Meanwhile the MSM propagandists and that babbling idiot Dementia Joe are claiming "Bidenomics" is working. Wake the fuck up sheep! Your being hoodwinked.

Smithfield is almost totally owned by the Chinese. Those SOB shouldn't be able to buy up American companies or American farmland. Try to buy a Chinese company or farmland in China.

[shootbrownelk]

I thought there were laws against monopolies, :ie Kwiktrips /7-11's,built stores , under sold everyone else (mom & pop stores) lost big money but could absorb $$$ ,the loses till small stores folded and they took over. Then the had control over the market. This is not earth shaking news, after all this they (kwiktrip/7-11) conspire with each other to fix prices. BUY LOCAL!!!

Support Small Business!!!

And the Muzzie immigrants dominate 7-11 gas/grocery store ownerships and motels.