(While I don’t raise Holsteins, we’ve certainly had some tall grass this year.)

For grass fed beef, you really have just two major profit points – as long as you’re feeding hay:

1. When they’re weaned.
2. When they’re yearlings.

Anything else gets eaten up in the winter hay cycle. While a grass fed beef is only about 22 months old at harvest, it’s gone through at least 2 winters, usually 3. Because you have to add in the 9 months of gestation to the cost – which takes it up to nearly 2 1/2 years.

Cost of hay isn’t just baling it, you also have to fertilize the land it came from, or it won’t produce as well for you the next time (and eventually, you’d only be raising short, unpalatable weeds – or sand.)

So working to finish cattle actually takes the remaining profit out of that last 8-10 months. They are going to put on their final weight, but this is also where they lose their efficiency of gain – each pound of gain takes more and more pounds of forage to achieve. And so the relative efficiency of grain-fed beef, who are harvested at about 14 months. That is, if you have the cheap grain to feed them.

Trying to finish cattle on grass usually means another winter of hay, which is additional cost. Auction prices for beef gets you paid commodity prices, which are as low as buyers can get away with. So your fertilizer cost, plus equipment and fuel, eat up any profit from those last few hundred pounds.

Now Missouri has lots and lots of tough, but tasty fescue grass. So this is why it is one of the top beef-producing states. Mostly, it has feeder or stocker (yearling) calves which are then shipped off to feedlots for fattening.

What’s becoming more popular are grass-finished beef, locally marketed. This is where you get your premiums and the reason for finishing anything at all. When you can jump the final price up above your costs for that last year, you can then simply be able to make any profit you want that the final consumer will pay for.

Example is that while a cow at auction will bring about $800 and your 600-pound carcass will cost you another $300 for processing – this comes to somewhere around $2.00 a pound for the whole animal. Visiting the local big-city market found that just hamburger from a verified grass-fed beef was bringing $5.50/lb. and sirloin steak was $18-19.00 per pound.

Now, that was individually wrapped, USDA-inspected. But it shows that farmers taking over their own market can reap the profit harvest to the tune of somewhere around $3,000 per animal.

Without taking your own marketing into your own hands, you are really stuck with sellling yearlings at auction, your next best profit margin.

To create a sustainable farming solution, increasing profit on grass fed beef at commodity prices is to take out the hay costs – which entails something called mob-grazing. By intensively grazing cattle and letting the land recover (one expert at this says his cows only see the same spot twice a year) – this actually make the grass lusher and means you don’t have to feed hay at all, there’s plenty out there if you ration it during the winter.

The other point would be to get a premium above commodity levels – in other words, quit selling a commodity.

But I’ve got far more to study on this. I sure would like to move onto finished cattle, but there’s going to have to be some changes in order to “mine them them hills” of grass to see more gold.

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There’s an interesting point, maybe the last I’ll bring up along this line (don’t worry, I’ve got a new book coming out about Freedom – which is why my posts have dropped off lately…)

We’ve already covered how the Huna principle that we are all connected actually explains the Golden Rule.  Of course, this goes further. It’s again about your lifestyle choices.

As you treat anyone in a vengeful, or even slightly hateful manner, so will your own life contain that slight hint of hate or vengeance.  Too logical, right?

What is more interesting is also found in the above. We are all connected, meaning that what ever you do to someone else – you are actually doing it to yourself at the same time.

Of course, we can then take responsibility for what is happening to us by following all this.  The Golden Rule gives us instruction, a rule. The Huna says why it works that way – and why it’s one rule you can’t set aside or try to break.

All my lamenting about rip off artists was as I was unable to simply let them go. I wasn’t simply releasing on that whole scene. Anything I did which was negative toward them simply came back at me. And like that tar-baby, I couldn’t let go – nor could they.

You’ll see most of the posts about anything to do with these guys have been removed. This is simply so I can move on. It doesn’t relieve them of their responsibilities or what happens to them – it just gets me off their back and them off mine. I’ve tried to help them long enough. But everyone finally graduates from school (or drops out.) The separation is final.

The underlying lesson for me was that I was causing my own grief. And as I’ve pointed out – it takes both a ripoff artist and a willing victim to perpetrate a rip off. Sure, there can be Justice. But the trick is to learn how to love in spite of all.

And the fine point is to know when to move on. You have to be able to look at how the lessons have gone and when you have learned enough along that line.

You have to know when and how to spot a tar-baby and just walk on by.

Because that tar-baby is you. We are all connected. There are no limits.

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Regardless of the graphic there is really only one way to play the game of life. It’s how you win.

Here’s the bottom line – we are each individually and personally here to evolve, to get better, to make the best of life in this existence that we can.

Now, despite all the various “Laws” which have come up over the years, there is only one which is observed by every known religion, philosophic, and deep thinker on this planet – from time immemorial up to the present moment. Because it can be proved by every single person to exist and work.

“You only get back what you give away.”

And this Law governs all success, all health, all the wants, dreams, and desires any human could expect to be, do, acquire, or attain in any life. It governs everything.

For some, this means “Love your neighbor as yourself.” In other, older versions, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

(And there was that famous judge who put an end to the physical interpretation of this by agreeing that they could have their pound of flesh, but they could take only that – no blood or other fluids, nothing else.)

It is the Golden Rule in various versions, the Koran as well as the Bible, as well as ancient Druid texts, Hindu, Egyptian, and even earlier to the oldest philosophies that still survive in remote Polynesian islands.

We are all connected, there are no limits – so this rule says that when you hurt someone else, you hurt yourself, when you help someone else, you help yourself.

If you look at any millionaire, billionaire or better (or worse), you’ll see that their money acquisition was on the backs of making other people rich at the same time. Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald’s chain) made far more millionaires than he could count. Sam Walton’s (Wal-Mart) expanded the sales of his suppliers many times over and was constantly working to improve the quality of life of his customers.

And that is the point to all this. To the degree you want to succeed in business, to get a great amount of income flowing toward you, to have a great home, nice stuff all around you – what do you have to do? What do you have to put your attention on?

The value of the product or service you are giving away.

Now, this doesn’t mean we need to all be paupers. Quite the reverse. The oddest thing is that people won’t value something, won’t really use it, unless they have to give something of value in return. That is really the only reason profitable commerce continues to exist and communism/socialism always fails.

That Rolls Royce or that Cadillac is worth every penny. People will pay more for grass-fed beef which is raised naturally without hormones or excessive growth-producing chemicals – that they know where it came from. They’ll pay several times what it took to create that beef and grow it for the two years it took to get to that size. Several times what they could have paid for that same beef at an auction yard and gotten it processed.

The added value is in bringing that specific product to them in a way they can use it best.

That’s more to our point:

Any business or individual will only succeed
to the exact degree that they help others succeed.

For better or worse, Bill Gates’ billions didn’t arrive without giving a great deal of value to the computer industry and the personal computer buyers. Us, in other words. Take any industry leader and the also-rans. The best, the top of their class always, always gives value in greater quantity than they extract. Sure, there are “other factors” – but that is the key one. (And why Apple and the Linux community hold onto major shares of this market? Even better value.)

Your own success it really just this point:

Whatever it is that you want – help someone else get it, or better, several someone’s. If you want help, help others. If you want to get rich, help others get rich. Want better health? – Work to improve others’ health. There are examples all around of how this works.

The reverse is true – run a ripoff scheme on other people and you can’t hold on to your own money. It’s only temporary. If you want permanent wealth around you – you’ll build wealth for others many times over in advance of your own, or at the same time. Not afterwards. (Ripoff artists and politicians only have to hide when they are hiding something.)

This isn’t a government job, which by definition is always taking something away by threat of force to “help” someone. I’ll dissect government at another time. The deal here: all help is a personal thing. What ever you personally want, you have to help others get it first, or at least at the same time you do. Only then can you really fulfill your desires.

And once you get everything you could possibly want or need? Then just keep helping others learn how to do it for themselves. That’s why all the really rich turn to helping others, even giving all their wealth away (like Buffet, Gates, and earlier, Carnegie, Rockefeller, etc.) Because now that you’re there, what else do you have to do?

And how about those who amassed great fortunes only to die bankrupt — they didn’t follow that Golden Rule. Help others all the time. Every way you can.

That’s the only way out of this human existence we share on this planet at this time. Remember, Jesus said that “Heaven is within you.” And hell-on-earth is just ignoring this one rule.

Your choice.

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Don't wear your tin foil hat to bed.

Sorry to bring you another quasi-rant today.

I went to check out other blogs about this supposed Burt Goldman Quantum Jumping scam and found a doozy – over at Skepacabra. And unfortunately, this “mjr256″ (real name missing from his blog) seems to be more about tearing stuff apart rather than the pursuit of truth – or at least workable truths.

And unfortunately, his slip is showing in the post I linked to above. He’s so skeptical, I don’t know that he knows how the Scientific Method is applied – while he can claim that there is no “scientific” basis for anything that he levels in his sites, particularly Quantum Jumping.

On this blog, I’ve covered why and how it doesn’t work – and how it can easily be made into a scam.  I just disagree with this author’s approach to the subject – since he doesn’t seem to understand that the way you treat others is exactly how you are going to be treated – whether you “believe” in the Golden Rule or deny it. (If you look around for proof, then you’ll find plenty of it – if you simply deny it as a truth, you’ll also be perfectly right. But those who take advantage of it will live far more comfortable, even prosperous lives.)

Such debunkers are no experts in living or in life and so should be taken with a large grain of salt before  you base your lifestyle choice on what they write.

So, here’s the rant-du-jour:

There is a problem with your critical analysis of this – mainly that it’s one of the easiest things to believe = nothing. And criticism really just involves your world with more criticism.

Look, you probably believe in the Government and all that it’s done for you. Well, that belief won’t hold up under your own Baloney Detector Kit. The government is a scam which doesn’t work. Yet people (are forced to) believe in it.

As far as scientific studies, I love the one which said 50% of all scientific studies contradicted the other 50%. (And your baloney detection kit wasn’t applied to their own example of Global Warming, which is disproved by the correlation between sunspot data and recorded temperatures.)

With beliefs, you build your own belief system around you. People cherry pick all day long and only accept things which support their mental habits up to that point. No one is really wrong in this – it’s the way we’ve been set up. Politics is great for blind-siding people this way – by only giving them data which they can use to support their own views.

The conspiracy theorists (like your tin hat above) are constantly ragged on for this – since they are compiling data and proposing conclusions the rest of us would rather not agree with, and so, Believe.

(Like that popular FBI show about UFO’s – “I believe.”)

While you diss people who suspend disbelief, you also diss just about everyone in that category. When you go into a movie theater, if you don’t disbelieve reality for the hour or so of that money, you won’t enjoy it. All scientific method is based on having an open mind about the result – and running impartial tests with double-blind studies to show what results can be achieved.

By blinding and rigidly holding on to only a single set of beliefs, you live in a very boring and increasingly dangerous world – since only you are the one who isn’t evolving and can’t even get your car fixed when it breaks (because you can’t let go of the belief that it’s running just fine.)

Hyper-critical reviews of a subject are great for getting your blog to the top of the standings – particularly if you do it first. However, it doesn’t mean you are actually providing anyone else with any valuable information.

Belief what you will, disbelieve what you will. Doesn’t really matter in the final outcome, does it?

What you and everyone around you is looking for won’t be found by being critical of the entire world around you. These people are known as “bitter” and usually have few true friends. (Who wants to be criticized all the time?)

Treat others as you would like to be treated.

That’s a challenge – if you can suspend your beliefs long enough…

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Of course it was inconvenient. I’d left a pallet of paper-sacked seed out in the bed of the truck, with just a tarp laid over them to keep out the dew.

Here it was, sun wasn’t up. Wind was blowing through my open windows as I struggled to cozey down under my blankets. Weather shift, it came to me. Echoes of weather forecasters telling me a cold front was moving in. Meant rain.

And then I started hearing drops. Big ones. Far apart right now, but that could change at any time. So I threw the covers aside and shrugged on some chilled jeans and slightly warmer socks.

Strugging into a sweatshirt, I paused, I wondered if I should start up the computer to check the online radar. But wisely, I thought better as the drops increased their tempo on our barn roof nearby.

Slapped on a ball-cap and stomped into my gum boots as I went out through the porch into the still-dark morning.

Fumbling for light switches, I got a few on while the rain started an irregular cadence of sorts on that tin roof. The tarp couldn’t have blown far, I reasoned, but the bungey cords hung on the dark wall refused to come loose easily, wanting more daylight to loosen their grip.

Finally, I got some free and in the scant light out of the open barn door, I pulled the tarp back over the pallet of seed bags – which towered over my head and out of reach – then got each corner tied into the pickup bed in some sort or fashion, with the whole thing barely snugged tight just as the wind started whipping down the rain in earnest.

After a quick double-check of the tarp against further wind, I pushed back up to the house, stripped off the wet sweatshirt, then pulled on another dry and warmer one.

Only then did I pour my first cup of hot coffee that morning.

- – - -

And this is intuitional living? Well, yes. I knew without thinking that I better get up right now and get that tarp tied down. Sure, this was from experience of not doing so dozens of times in the past and successfully doing so many times less. I knew all about wind and rain and bags of seed gone to mold after they were wet.

Action, in that early morning darkness, was what was needed.

Surely I could have figured that out earlier – even though I basically saved the day that time (we had another inch of rain before that squall was through, by the end of that morning). Yes, I had listened to an idea to get a tarp over it, but resisted another light idea to secure that tarp so it wouldn’t blow off.

When I did listen, it was intuitional living. When I didn’t listen, it was my own thinking tripping me up.

And so my intuition got me to get out of bed, while my thinking almost fired up the computer to make me too late.

Thinking tops action, it doesn’t speed it or guide it. Thinking just screws things up.

That might be condemnatory, because there are a lot of good uses for thinking. But like a calculator, you turn it off when you are done. You don’t point that calculator or punch its buttons in the general direction of every single thing you are trying to accomplish during the day – do you?

Making a cup of coffee – your mind often winds around to other subjects. Making a cup of coffee is only action, requires little thought. Same for cooking a bowl of oatmeal in the microwave. Turn on the timer and think while you wait. Take it out, stir, cook once more (this keeps it from boiling over and having a mess to clean up, doesn’t it?) More thinking, and then you can eat breakfast – which is almost automatic as well.

But if you think too much during the first cooking, you “forget” that you didn’t cook it all the way – and your bananas and milk now are inseparably mixed with undercooked mush. Yuck.

Thinking just gets in the way.

So the obvious solution is to quiet the mind and get the thinking down to a minimum. Turn it on when you do need it and keep it quiet the rest of the time.

Intuitional Living.

Try it.

Use the Sedona Method to quiet your mind and make living more comfortable and efficient.

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Found what we really, really should be having town halls about - forget the government’s socialist conspiracy to take over health care!

This is far more vital and affects everyone’s lifestyle choices…

From Dr. LaBush’s Links to Learning:

!!!   BREAD IS DANGEROUS   !!!

I’ve done a little research, and what I’ve discovered should make anyone think twice….

1.   More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2.   Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread consuming households score below
average on standardized tests.
3.   In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life
expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high;
many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and
influenza ravaged whole nations.
4.   More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating
bread.
5.   Bread is made from a substance called “dough.” It has been proven that as little as
one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats
more bread than that in one month!
6.   Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer,
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, and osteoporosis.
7.   Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of  bread and given only
water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
8.   Bread is often a “gateway” food item, leading the user to “harder” items such as
butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
9.   Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90
percent water, it follows that eating bread could  lead to your body being taken
over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey
bread pudding person.
10.  Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11.  Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit!
That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12.  Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant
scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.

In light of these frightening statistics,  we propose the following bread restrictions:

1.   No sale of bread to minors.
2.   A nationwide “Just Say No To Toast” campaign, complete with celebrity
TV spots and bumper stickers.
3.   A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might
associate with bread.
4.   No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children)
may be used to promote bread usage.
5.   The establishment of “Bread-free” zones around schools.

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The scales of Justice are false, actually. There is no balance. The reason for law is to determine the truth (see Jurisdictionary^® for more data.) Law is based on an absolute datum of the Golden Rule – some sort of low-grade enforcement for ensuring people treat others as they would themselves.

Here’s the logic of that balance question:

• What you push, you become. Thoughts become things, they make the world you live in.
• Evil is only mis-applied good. You don’t shovel out the darkness, you turn on a light.
• Equally matched opponents results in a draw. Competition is destructive, not creative. Each side limits themselves to their opponents’ standards in order to play the game.

Initially, I was going to label this “The Discipline of Hope.” Because in life, there is only the positive, creative. And to the degree that you follow and push up these efforts, you get more positive in your life. To the degree that you work against something, you get more of that enemy into your life. (Which is a short-hand for why politics and government never solve anything.)

There is no black and white, no light and dark. There is only white and the absence of white, light and the absence of light.

As it takes energy to light a room, this is where you’re concentration should be. Sure, it might be easier to sit in the dark, but where’s the fun in that? Lots of things creep around in the dark. Sunlight is the best disinfectant – or you can get the fuel to run a generator to scare the critters back into the shadows.

That’s the point, isn’t it? If you are pushing forward a positive, the negatives ultimately fall away. Unless you start fighting them. Simply out-creating them by constantly finding better solutions to problems presented will always pull the rug out from under any negative being presented. If you simply, rationally defuse their basis for arguing, then there is no debate needed.

And this is actually how life runs. Look around this planet. Where there is war, starvation, oppression – it can be traced to a handful of people who are busy pushing this for their own personal gain. North Korea compared to South Korea. All those people in the North could be living a prosperous, healthy, long life – were it not for their agreeing to follow some knucklehead whose got the world’s largest porn collection and spends money (counterfeit US bills) to create rockets instead of developing their economy, particularly agriculture so they could feed themselves.

But anyone who really wanted to could simply leave that country. And if everyone simply quit doing what that guy said, then there would be no government of that sort to oppress them anymore.

(Same thing happens in this country. When people get fed up with a President, they quit listening to him. And Congressional representatives know this for a fact – don’t listen to your constituents and forget your re-election. )

So don’t fall into this trap. Only do good with your life. Only seek optimal solutions around you – and keep looking for even more optimal solutions.

Then you win, and everyone around you wins. As we get more and more people to work on this point, the whole world can win.

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(While I don’t raise Holsteins, we’ve certainly had some tall grass this year.)

For grass fed beef, you really have just two major profit points – as long as you’re feeding hay:

1. When they’re weaned.
2. When they’re yearlings.

Anything else gets eaten up in the winter hay cycle. While a grass fed beef is only about 22 months old at harvest, it’s gone through at least 2 winters, usually 3. Because you have to add in the 9 months of gestation to the cost – which takes it up to nearly 2 1/2 years.

Cost of hay isn’t just baling it, you also have to fertilize the land it came from, or it won’t produce as well for you the next time (and eventually, you’d only be raising short, unpalatable weeds – or sand.)

So working to finish cattle actually takes the remaining profit out of that last 8-10 months. They are going to put on their final weight, but this is also where they lose their efficiency of gain – each pound of gain takes more and more pounds of forage to achieve. And so the relative efficiency of grain-fed beef, who are harvested at about 14 months. That is, if you have the cheap grain to feed them.

Trying to finish cattle on grass usually means another winter of hay, which is additional cost. Auction prices for beef gets you paid commodity prices, which are as low as buyers can get away with. So your fertilizer cost, plus equipment and fuel, eat up any profit from those last few hundred pounds.

Now Missouri has lots and lots of tough, but tasty fescue grass. So this is why it is one of the top beef-producing states. Mostly, it has feeder or stocker (yearling) calves which are then shipped off to feedlots for fattening.

What’s becoming more popular are grass-finished beef, locally marketed. This is where you get your premiums and the reason for finishing anything at all. When you can jump the final price up above your costs for that last year, you can then simply be able to make any profit you want that the final consumer will pay for.

Example is that while a cow at auction will bring about $800 and your 600-pound carcass will cost you another $300 for processing – this comes to somewhere around $2.00 a pound for the whole animal. Visiting the local big-city market found that just hamburger from a verified grass-fed beef was bringing $5.50/lb. and sirloin steak was $18-19.00 per pound.

Now, that was individually wrapped, USDA-inspected. But it shows that farmers taking over their own market can reap the profit harvest to the tune of somewhere around $3,000 per animal.

Without taking your own marketing into your own hands, you are really stuck with sellling yearlings at auction, your next best profit margin.

To create a sustainable farming solution, increasing profit on grass fed beef at commodity prices is to take out the hay costs – which entails something called mob-grazing. By intensively grazing cattle and letting the land recover (one expert at this says his cows only see the same spot twice a year) – this actually make the grass lusher and means you don’t have to feed hay at all, there’s plenty out there if you ration it during the winter.

The other point would be to get a premium above commodity levels – in other words, quit selling a commodity.

But I’ve got far more to study on this. I sure would like to move onto finished cattle, but there’s going to have to be some changes in order to “mine them them hills” of grass to see more gold.

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