Thanks Aggie - always appreciate your comments. With items like the one I posted on the cattle herds - I kinda figure that by the time it gets to the mainstram media - the trend is about to change. Might be wrong in this case but my preception is that is the way it usually works.
On a different subject - what are you seeing in fertilizer prices compared to last year? Thanks in advance for you response and comments. 
Scott Brown commercial that ran in Mass before the election:
Even though ag commodity prices drop, it takes a long time to see these reductions reflected on grocery shelves. When ag commods are rising….you see the prices on the grocery shelves go up much faster. As Okie and me have stated……we are awash in grains at this point. Looks like the latest winter storm will dump much needed moisture in the Tex/Okla/Ks. wheat corridor. It will probably have a further dampening effect on the price grains……especially wheat.
All the best.———aggie.
My chart of SLW doesn’t show the EOD drop like Jesse’s chart. Wonder what gives?
The meeting will be Feb 13th Saturday 10am Hampton Inn 1351 Canadian Ct. Yukon Ok. It is time to strike the blow for righteousness…e-mail any concerns…jtk022552aol.com
Yessir …the distortions are what will get us in trouble with the food supplies…I know redneck and aggie say the bins are full…but that is long way from the dinner table…
I spoke with a rebel AIG broker moments ago…. He said at a seminar yesterday the AIG brokers are goin to advise their clients just as they have for the last 10 years….nice of them….hope they all drop dead within a week…..
Ranchers are culling the herds as corn prices soar and wholesale prices for beef and milk drop.
My personal view is that this is a manifestation of economic distortions and malinvestment due to government interferience in a variety of feed markets over a number of years, as well as paper speculation driving prices in a way that is not connected with physical supply and demand.
Is there a significant change in American dietary habits and an oversupply of beef and milk? It does not seem as though the retail prices of milk and beef are dropping in concert with this, which may be dampening demand.
Let them eat iPads and CDO’s.
BusinessWeek
U.S. Cattle Herd Falls to 1958 Low as Losses Climb, Survey Says
By Whitney McFerron
Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. cattle herd may have shrunk to the smallest size since 1958, as mounting losses during the recession spurred beef and dairy producers to cull animals, analysts said.
Wholesale choice-beef prices averaged $1.4071 a pound last year, the lowest level since at least 2004, as U.S. job losses climbed and meat demand waned. Corn, the main ingredient in livestock feed, jumped to a record $7.9925 a bushel in 2008 on the Chicago Board of Trade, and prices averaged about $3.79 last year, the third-highest annual average since at least 1959.
“There’s not much incentive to be building herds,” said John Nalivka, the president of Sterling Marketing Inc., a livestock-industry consulting company in Vale, Oregon. “Costs of production across the cow-calf sector and in dairy have gone up in the past two years, and prices have come down” for beef and milk, he said.
Futures prices for feeder cattle, the young animals that ranchers sell to feedlots to be fattened for slaughter, averaged 96.821 cents a pound last year on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the lowest level since 2003. Feeder-cattle futures for March settlement rose 0.2 percent yesterday to 98.975 cents a pound on the CME.
Slaughter-ready cattle futures for April delivery dropped 0.9 percent yesterday to 89.325 cents a pound.
Rancher Losses
Cattle ranchers in the southern Great Plains lost about $34 on every breeding cow they owned last year, following losses of about $18 a head in 2008, according to Jim Robb, the director of the Denver-based Livestock Marketing Information Center, an industry- and government-funded researcher.
U.S. beef production may total 25.45 billion pounds (11.54 million metric tons) in 2010, which would be the smallest amount since 2005, Robb said. The USDA forecasts output at 25.58 billion pounds.
“We’re forecasting that beef production in 2010 won’t be the smallest since 1958, because the average animal processed now weighs twice as much,” Robb said.
The number of young female beef cattle held back for breeding in the U.S. may have fallen to 5.45 million animals, down 1.4 percent from 5.526 million a year earlier, according to the average analyst estimate.
Dairy Cuts
Dairy farmers may be holding back 4.313 million young replacement cows for breeding, down 2.2 percent from 4.41 million at the same time last year, according to the average analyst estimate. The dairy herd is shrinking partly because of industry-funded cow culls last year aimed at supporting prices.
The so-called Cooperatives Working Together program removed about 252,000 dairy cows from production since December 2008, according to a statement on the group’s Web site.
“Last year was a terrible year for milk prices,” said Ron Plain, a livestock economist at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He said the industry-funded culling program is “one of the reasons why we’re down so much on milk-cow numbers from a year ago.”
The price of class III milk, used to make cheese, tumbled to a six-year low last year of $9.24 per 100 pounds, after global demand slowed. The price has rebounded 57 percent since then to $14.54 yesterday on the CME.
Thank youfor the link……Now does anyone want to take the other side of the debate???? And if not …then what shall one do??????That is what should be asked of our families AND NOW
And lastly comes this must watch video. It’s an interview from ABC News that’s posted over at yahoo.com. The gentleman being interview is Herb Kay, New York Times best selling author and President of HK Turnaround. … and the link is here.
Hoka 
Thanks for the very well done link on mind control.
Silverspike should show this to people in his area where cults are most prevalent.
18 minutes ago
(AP:LONDON) The Bank of England says it and other central banks are ending emergency U.S. dollar lending arrangements put in place in the wake of the global credit crisis after improvements in financial markets.
In coordination Wednesday with the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank, the British central bank said that the temporary liquidity swap lines with the U.S. Federal Reserve will expire Feb. 1.
The decision marks the first unified retraction of extraordinary support measures by central banks to boost lending after credit markets seized up in late 2007, causing the global economic downturn.
The Bank of England says that the swap lines are no longer needed "given the improvements in financial market functioning seen over the past year."
by CalculatedRisk on 1/27/2010 12:58:00 PM
While we wait for the FOMC, there are signs of more economic weakness … (update: this isn’t a sign of a “flight to quality” or a panic - just too much money looking for a parking place).
From Bloomberg: U.S. One-Month Bill Rate Negative for First Time Since March (ht jb)
Treasury one-month bill rates turned negative for the first time in 10 months, as issuance declines while investors seek the most easily-traded securities amid a renewal of risk aversion.
The rate on the four-week security dropped to negative 0.0101 percent, the lowest since it reached negative 0.015 percent on March 26. The Treasury sold $10 billion of four-week bills on Jan. 26 at a rate of zero percent …
The Ten Year yield is back down to 3.61%.
And from the Chicago Fed: Midwest Manufacturing Output Decreased in December
this works well for me!
The time is nigh and that’s no lie! 
Ya know ya gots ta bitch. If you don’t bitch when your stocks are falling your head might explode.
At least I get to do it in the bosom (good word IMO) of my GT friends and not by myself or amongst a bunch of strangers.
These days it’s always grog time! 
didn’t get my wings singed-I held off–but I definitely want to get some exposure before the weekend-Looks like they are on a stop hunting expedition round the 1075-85 area.
You have done well….go get stiff for me too……….
Jeez bitch bitch bitch…haaaaa
I now know what Wanka is doing….what doesn’t show up on Goldrunners Fractal Charts is the double bottom in the Dow in1935…..right after that came the Huge Hurricane through the Florida Keys….well old Wanks has Duck’s 2 insured for double replacement value plus all stocked booze at retail profits value and all chicken bones at replacement cost value..When it comes to pass ….he will have enough dough to buy one more Krug and will purchase the whole market cap of SILVERADO.haaaaa…what a crafty salt he is….
I dunno bout that, hey is it grog after 4 yet?
Cheers, gata run.
http://www.organichealthwellness.com/?p=1104 These were take from: http://community.babycenter.com/ That’s just a small sample can only imagine the real numbers. Yet again another “real” issue that is being suppressed and covered up.
but at least by the end of the day it was only killing me softly.
“State of Delusion?”
