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<\/p>\nRUSH: Tom in Mitchell, South Dakota. Tom, it says here you\u2019re in the livestock business. I\u2019m glad you called. I\u2019ve been eager to talk to somebody in your business. How you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, you know, we\u2019re feeding cattle. I\u2019m mostly a cattle broker. I broker the sale of cattle between the guys that raise them and the packinghouses. And we\u2019ve got a lot of cattle getting big, and our problem is that we\u2019re having trouble with the packinghouses being able to run strong enough, long enough to keep up with our show list —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Why, is that because these packinghouses have discovered people with the virus working there and they\u2019ve had to shut down?<\/p>\n
CALLER: To some extent, yes, sir, especially in the hogs, you know, they\u2019ve had to shut down in South Dakota —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right, right. I saw that, the pig slaughterhouses. That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: In the cattle packinghouses, Rush, a lot of problems are once they find out, or somebody finds out that there\u2019s somebody else in there, maybe a coworker that had it, then people just aren\u2019t showing up, but there have been other packinghouses —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You mean, buyers stop showing up?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, sir, the people that cut up the cattle, the people that slaughter the cattle —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ah. The employees fail to show up.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. The reason that I called you today is that in the midst of trying to find ways and thinking of ways to try to get this protein utilized, talking with people in the industry, with our animal industry board here in South Dakota, and one thing I do want to say is thanks to governor Noem of South Dakota, hydroxychloroquine, we\u2019re on it.<\/p>\n
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But I\u2019ll keep going from there. We\u2019re talking with the animal industry board and with others in our industry. What\u2019s going on now, Rush, is that we\u2019re dumping milk, hogs are gonna be gassed or euthanized, and it sounds like in some instances they\u2019re looking at the fact that they might just open the packinghouses just to euthanize the animals, nothing else, just to get \u2019em out of the way. And one thing that was brought up to me is that once these animals are gone, you understand it takes a certain amount of time to get an animal fat —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. What is the solution?<\/p>\n
CALLER: We\u2019ve gotta get back to work and start creating that demand again for protein, whether it\u2019s eggs, beef, or milk.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I know. But if you got employees that are afraid to show up because they\u2019re gonna get sick, I mean, how do you overcome that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: We\u2019re working through that now. That was weeks ago —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — in some instances —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, look. I need you to hang on through the break. I\u2019ve got some other questions for you, and just two or three minutes. Have you got that time?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. All right. Thank you much. We\u2019ll be back here in a moment.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. We\u2019re back to Tom in Mitchell, South Dakota. He\u2019s in the livestock business. Tom, let me tell you what my fear is. The reason I\u2019m glad you called and I want to talk to somebody like you is that the stories that are appearing in the media.<\/p>\n
Numerous websites — New York, Washington, you know, everywhere outside South Dakota — are portraying what\u2019s happening to the livestock business as fatal, that you may never recover from it. Now, the reason for this is this is what they want. You realize that much of what is happening in America today is a…?<\/p>\n
You could call it a trial run for the implementation of pretty much everything in the climate change agenda, including the Green New Deal. They\u2019re trying to wipe out oil. They\u2019re showing what people not working and driving can mean to clean air.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re showing what can happen when they shut people like you down, when they get rid of beef, when they get rid of the cattle. Because you people, your cattle fart methane and stuff and start destroying climate, destroy the planet and all. It\u2019s scary to watch how successfully they do it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckling)<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I\u2019m just saying this has been the purpose. I\u2019m saying they\u2019re taking advantage of this and they\u2019re trying to sell the agenda based on this. And the stories I\u2019ve seen are painting a picture of total doom and gloom for the livestock business, and I wanted to ask you if that\u2019s true or do you expect to come back and recover from this?<\/p>\n
CALLER: We\u2019re expecting… We\u2019re looking every day as a better day. All of my guys are asking me, especially on the cattle side, “What do we need to do? Do we need to back off of feed?” You know, to slow down the finishing process. You know, “How can we slow down our costs or cut our costs?”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. Meantime, retail prices are gonna start skyrocketing as the commodity becomes less in supply —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — and that\u2019s gonna limit the number of people that can buy your product. The price is gonna go up \u2019cause there\u2019s gonna be less of it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir, and what I was hoping and what I wanted to convey or at least share with you and your listeners, is the fact — this was explained to me yesterday by a very knowledgeable man — that in the industries, the hens are being put out now. They\u2019re being taken to slaughter or whatever it is that they do with them, but they\u2019re being taken out of production.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not gonna return. They\u2019re being utilized as protein if they can be, or they\u2019re getting buried after being euthanized. Those were layers, and the hatchers — or the cracker machines — that would crack those eggs and put \u2019em in bags and send them to the restaurants. Those eggs weren\u2019t being used, so the producers were having to deal with eggs that they couldn\u2019t get rid of.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: They were going to marketplace where they could be in boxes but then they ran out of — or the cartons. They ran out of the cartons, and here\u2019s another set of eggs that they can\u2019t deal with. And so what they do is they do away with the factory, which was the hen. With the diary, on the cow side, the milk that was going to the restaurants was being put in those bags with those big rubber nipples on the bottom that go into those big (crosstalk) machines.<\/p>\n
RUSH: In other words… Let me take over. What\u2019s happening, folks, is there\u2019s not a supply problem at all. They are having to throw away what would normally end up on the grocery store shelves because the processing plants are being shut down as it has been discovered that people who tested positive for the virus worked there.<\/p>\n
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And since it\u2019s assumed you gonna die if you get the disease, nobody is showing up to work for now. It\u2019s a crying shame that this stuff is all going to waste. You know, we hear about — these leftists are constantly berating us about — all the waste and all the plastic and all the food that gets thrown away on cruise ships. And that\u2019s nothing compared to what is happening now simply \u2019cause they can\u2019t get the stuff to market.<\/p>\n
And that… (sigh) You want to talk about…? It\u2019s one thing to have a supply problem because of an illness through a breed or lack of feed. That\u2019s one thing. Those are cyclical; you deal with it. To have a supply problem because you can\u2019t process plenty of product? There is not a supply problem. But there\u2019s gonna be, because as they have to make adjustments, as they have to throw away good product here…<\/p>\n
It takes awhile for a steer to get old enough to slaughter it for good beef, and the same thing with chickens and eggs and this kind of thing. So it\u2019s not just gonna instantly rebound. This is the kind of damage being done to our economy that is so unnecessary, and it\u2019s happening everywhere along the supply chain.<\/p>\n
Now, some slaughterhouses are still up and running, and they\u2019re being furnished with product, and they\u2019re processing it and prepping it and they\u2019re sending it to grocery stores around the country and to restaurants that are open. But the supply is down. That\u2019s gonna cause the price to go up when people don\u2019t have any money to pay for it anyway.<\/p>\n
And this stuff just feeds on itself.<\/p>\n
(sigh) I can\u2019t get past the fact that we\u2019ve done it to ourselves, under the guise that somehow we have prevented a lot of death, which is what I think the objective as far as the politics of it is, that a lot of great people are saving a lot of lives in this whole thing. And of course, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. What if that\u2019s not really happening? Anyway, Tom, I appreciate the call. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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