CNN story about food prices

[Guest]

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Originally posted by EightFingers

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What are they feeding the cattle on the Parker Ranch? I thought it was just grass. ...

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Parker Ranch Cows are weaned from their mothers as calves at a young age and sent to the mainland.

While big ranchers like Parker take the 10-15 percent of the herd that’s unsuitable for shipping to the mainland and set them aside as grass-fed beef for local slaughter and processing, the local grass-fed market is just an afterthought for big ranches

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It is the way... the way it is.