Feeder steers and diamond rings

[Mcrafty1]

Miss Candy is a jeweler. I am not but she has taught me a little about precious stones & metals. The prices for diamonds and the prices for a ring vary greatly. There are a bunch of specifications for diamonds. So you can easily buy a large low grade diamond for the same price as a small high grade diamond. This same is true for metals. Gold for instance, is graded for purity. 100% gold is just that but it is very soft so it wears easily. Ring that are an alloy are just as shinny to me and are harder so they dont wear as fast.

Miss Candy has also taught me that every woman has their own idea of the perfect ring. And don’t be surprised when she changes her mind.
The bottom line is. What ever make her happy is the right answer. Even if it takes 2 steers

Yes, when it comes to wives...We can be right, or we can be happy...but we can't be both

 

[Mcrafty1]

While it might be possible to control the chicken or pig market because of the low land use there is no one in the world that could control the cattle market by buying up all the cows.

I have read the figures before but can’t really remember the exact amount but I want to say over 1/3 the land is the USA is devoted to grazing cattle.
We can look at it another way. It takes several acres to graze a cow calf pair and several states have more cows than they have people.
Just not possible for one entity to own that much land.

"Let me start by stating I have zero knowledge of cattle buying, raising or selling."
My thought process here was more toward the processing end, I wasn't clear on that. Where do commercial cattle growers get their product processed for market? Are there multiple processors left in America? or do most cattle end up outside the country for that?

Oh, and I wasn't meaning to hijack this thread, we were talking about cattle though