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Maybe, but cracked or ground grains loose their nutritional value much more quickly than whole. ETA Or so I'm told.

Less than half the price of the premixed processed stuff.

Money is life energy. When I spend it, that is what I am spending. My life.

Most cattle are grass fed up until the last few months when they are moved into CAFOs and finished on grain. The question is not whether they are grass FED but grass FINISHED. As to the Taco bell situation, there is no doubt in my mind there is a great deal of stuff other than cow meat in...

In his book In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan claims one of the reasons it is easier for folks to be vegetarians in India and other places where it is popular is due to the high level of proteins from bugs in their daily diet found in the grains and such folks consume. Lots of animal protein in...

We should invade.

I'd focus on experience. Just tell them why you do what you do, and how you are going about doing it. I think you could even talk about meat and why your meat is different from what is sold at the store. Tell them a few stories here and there to illustrate. There are millions of stories on a...

Yeah, imagine if Hannibal had some of THOSE! He gave the Romans a hard enough time with puny little elephants. I'd want to name mine something with a bit more gravitas though. Something tough that would strike fear into the hearts of the enemy. Something like "OhioFarmGirl" or something. :D

I once saw a guy in Thailand using an elephant to pull his plow.

I think it would be monster cool. To think a beast long extinct could be brought back to be studied... But it is a two edged sword. On the one hand, it could prove we can bring back extinct species, which would be good if we applied it to some of the species we are wiping out once we have...

I plan to retire at 62. We have rental property that will be paid off by then and will make a nice supplemental income. Have been socking away money in mutual funds and IRAs, and my job has a solvent retirement plan (as union president for our 435 member local, I negotiated that just a couple of...

Free, I have copied, pasted, emailed, and printed your system for future reference. That is some great information. I had never thought of sprouting stuff for my goats and chickens. I have ordered some whole grains from our feed mill to try it out. Great stuff.

Right now I'm reading... Well, see my signature line and avatar. :D I'm loving Three Cups of Tea. What a sweet and heroic human being. Very inspiring. I'm also reading three or four other books at the moment that I will list when I have more time.

I mix my own. That and what they can get out on pasture seems to suffice.

Free, how is this guy's technique? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs8qiucZZx0

I picked up a very nice Austrian scythe for $14 at a farm equipment auction, but have yet to use it. Y'all have inspired me. I'm going to use it to make hay this year. Thanks for the vid, Paul.

And I don't judge you on yours. I speak only for myself according to my own values.

If you like. :) But it's true at least for me. There are more important things to me than cheap. I am much more concerned about the humane treatment of animals than I am how much my meat costs. Yeah, that's never been an argument I buy. In a cottage economy, your time is actually an asset, not...

I can rent an almost new Featherman tub style plucker for $25 a day. For the scalder and plucker it would probably be a bit more. So far it hasn't been needed as my ancient table top plucker has been sufficient. But I consider that a steal for a $1k+ plucker. $50 a day doesn't sound all that...

Naw, that would be here... As for grabbing my axe... well, I'd best just leave that be. :lol: