Pushing for Infrastructure & Cattle Herds Shrinking

Pushing for Infrastructure & Cattle Herds Shrinking

Pushing for Infrastructure & Cattle Herds Shrinking plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

The number of beef cows in the United States is falling. Purdue Extension Ag Economist Chris Hurt says the trend lower has been in place for several years.

HURT: The continued decline is related to multi-year financial discouragement due to high and volatile feed prices to shortages of pastures in some areas last summer and developing dry conditions in the southeast and central and southern plains. Beef cattle numbers at 30.9-million head are down 2% over the past year and down 6% since 2005.

A lot of people are excited about the new electric vehicles coming into the marketplace but the major downside is the lack of infrastructure and in this case that means charging stations. Like gasoline stations that were once scarce, charging stations are very few and far between. The city of Seattle is working with a Phoenix-based firm who was awarded a multi-million dollar DOE grant to install electric vehicle charging stations in six states, including nearly 1200 in western Washington. Businesses would receive the charging station for free along with $1,500 toward installation.

Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.

Yet, another reason to despise the best selling “Eat this, Not That” author David Zinczenko, he has attacked the sacred tradition of giving chocolates on Valentine’s Day! Please, can’t there be at least one holiday where we’re not bombarded by the food police. As if most men don’t have enough of a problem trying to decide what to give their lady love, along comes this moron with his suggestions of skipping the romantic dinner out and giving less fattening chocolates to the love of your life. Any man that has been with a woman any length of time at all knows that the only message that sends is, “you seem to be putting on some extra pounds so I bought you this low calorie chocolate covered citrus peel instead”.   If you really want to have a romantic evening with your special someone, go with your own instincts in what to give and how to celebrate your love. If that’s sharing a ten-pound box of chocolates or a romantic dinner for two, then by all means do so! As for Mr. Zinczenko’s spiel about how nothing ruins a romantic dinner like unnecessary calories, no sir, nothing ruins romance like having someone counting calories for you.

Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.

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