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09/25/12, 09:36 PM
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Coming Up: Bacon and Sausage shortage
Announced on the news today that toward the end of next year there might be a severe shortage of bacon and sausage due to this years drought causing a severe shortage of corn feed.
So you all might want to either stalk up on bacon and sausage or raise yourself several pigs next year.
I'm thinking about raising several pigs and a big crop of corn next summer. Hopefully there want be a drought or a plague of grasshoppers like there was this year.
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09/25/12, 09:44 PM
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Yes, I bought a freezer last month anticipating this. I ordered a side of beef too. But I fear it won't be big enough for everything I want to stock up on. Gladly we aren't big pork eaters.
...On second thought I will buy a couple cases of restaurant bacon from the warehouse. If I squish it into baggies, maybe I will make it fit! 
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09/25/12, 09:47 PM
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Yeah, like the oil shortage in 1980 is why gas is$4 a gallon now.
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09/25/12, 09:53 PM
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I will make mine as I need it from them fat little pigs (raccons) out in the orchard. Pay backs are sweet....James
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09/25/12, 10:11 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
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On ANOTHER note (now I'm not saying the drought isn't real because I'm sure it is) HOWEVER ... Let it be known that I am still eating rice that I stocked up on 5 years ago because of the "supposed looming world rice shortage thing" that was happening in the Asian rice growing regions. And another note, the price of rice hasn't risen that much since.
Just putting it out there. I'm still gonna buy bacon. I like bacon.
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09/25/12, 10:17 PM
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I just wonder, how long will bacon and sausage keep in the freezer?
Just to let you all know, last week I ordered a several rolls of Blue & Gold sausage from the FFA kids at school. But as good as that stuff taste, it'll go quick!
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09/25/12, 10:21 PM
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In the last several years bacon and ham have turned on me. 
Makes me sicker than a dog. Have had to turn to Turkey bacon, but that's ok so the bacon shortage won't bother me, thank goodness.
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09/25/12, 10:23 PM
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the Siberian folk have been know to eat mammoth when the find it.
I suppose it all in how cold your freezer is?
Another factor would be how you package it.
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09/25/12, 10:31 PM
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Saw that same 'news' and had already bought 3# of bits & pieces
in a shrink-wrap package about 2 weeks ago at the local butcher
shop for $5.59. Went back today and bought 2 more and tossed
them in the freezer. Can never have too much bacon!
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09/25/12, 10:38 PM
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FREE BACON & SAUSAGE: PM Big Dave for details You must come and get it.
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09/25/12, 10:51 PM
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I already started stocking up on pork and beef and will continue to do so until I have a freezer full.
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09/26/12, 12:07 AM
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I farm, county I'm in has the 4th highest pig numbers in the state, surrounded by hogs.....
Dairy folk are in trouble - they have it rough with the high price of feed. Something will have to give, milk prices will have to go up or there will be a big drop-out of dairy farms. Once you are out, it's real hard to get back into dairy, a cow herd takes a long time to build up.
Beef is the one that will end up in short supply, it takes 2 years or more to build up beef herd. It's fairly easy to get in or out of beef; just takes 2 years to get back in, lifecycle of the critters.
Hog & poultry actually, seems like they can get out & back into production in 1/2 year or less, so - any shortages in these products whould pass fairly quickly.
Sounds sorta like a little bit of marketing going on, to proclaim a shortage of pork this early.... Hum.
--->Paul
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09/26/12, 12:54 AM
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In August Hogs were selling at our local auction for $60 to $65 a hundred wt. I thought that was a great price. Last weeks prices were $42 to $45 a hundred. Farmers are dumping stock as fast as they can. We will be getting a hog or two then in the spring a couple of feeder pigs.
Not long ago the CEO of Smithifeld farms said that the price of meat protien is going to get prohibitive for a lot of families. Figure he knows which way the wind is blowing. We really dont see raising a beef cow as a good move for us, but a pig or two yep we can do that in the spring cost effectively. We are also looking at venision for the first time in a long time since neither of us like it much. But we are going tro have to get creative in cooking it appears.
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09/26/12, 06:58 AM
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Not at my house...Got two in the pen and if it runs out there are thousands in the woods.
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09/26/12, 07:09 AM
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This is only a problem if one is buying CAFO pork. I read in the industry trade news that since they're so dependent on both petroleum and corn they're dramatically cutting back the livestock at CAFOs. They're anticipating a 15% increase in the cost of food overall and a higher cost increase in grains (e.g., cereal, bread) and meats.
Truly pastured livestock should be somewhat protected from this as we use very little petroleum (e.g., gasoline, diesel, electric) and almost no grain feeds with our livestock.
Time to get to know your local pastured pork farmers who raise pigs really on pasture and don't buy grain. There are many and the pork is superior.
Alternatively, get some summer pigs and raise your own. Pigs are pretty easy.
Cheers,
-Walter Jeffries
Sugar Mountain Farm
Pastured Pigs, Sheep & Kids
in the mountains of Vermont
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09/26/12, 07:11 AM
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How far away are you, Big Dave? LOL
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09/26/12, 11:01 AM
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why don't people just go to pastured beef and pork and not be feeding them grain and not have to worry about the grain prices??
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09/26/12, 11:04 AM
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We need to eat LESS Bacon and sausage. This shortage is a good thing.
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09/26/12, 01:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ronbre
why don't people just go to pastured beef and pork and not be feeding them grain and not have to worry about the grain prices??
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Pasture is a less dense feed value, so it takes longer, or more land, to raise the same number of pounds of meat.
Thus, pastured is going to be more expensive meat, on average, and a tad less efficient.
Not to say it doesn't have some good aspects as well - and if one counts 'efficiency' in different ways, one can get meat from land that can't be used to grow crops so it cuts both ways. And we are not discussing the taste/ etc issues here - all that is fine to debate and pastured meat might well be worth much more than regular but not the point we are trying to discuss.
But, if any serious percentage of folks switched from current pork to some form of pastured pork, there would be the same shoratges, even higher price hikes, and so forth.
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09/26/12, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Big Dave
FREE BACON & SAUSAGE: PM Big Dave for details You must come and get it.
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Big Dave,
You can't fool us. We know the scoop on that pork.
For all of you stocking up on pork, remember that after about 6 months it starts tasting off.
SBJ
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