Made In USA

[DownSouth]

I needed a couple of bags of scratch for the chickens so I decided to stop at a small local feed store that I would be passing by today.
Now I for one try my best to go out of my way to buy products labeled Made In USA but never pay much attention to feed since I"ve always assumed it came from inside our borders but the who honestly knows! That being said when I got home and unloaded the feed I saw this one the back of the bags. Yea, it brought a big smile to my face. BTW, it"s FulOPep feeds out of Cuero and San Antonio. I reckon I"ll be going back there on my next feed run!

 

[rlpintx]

Not to many people have a clue where Cuero is.

 

[js305]

South of Oklahoma...

 

[ben there]

I remember when Ford Trucks had that logo too. Where did you get that feed?

 

[730 virgil]

seems it is harder all the time to get stuff made in USA

 

[kito169]

Cuero, Tx home of Ruby Begonia. The fastest turkey ever.

 

[unclemerle]

Paycheck all the way!!!!!;0)

 

[Anonymous-0]

GOOD FOR YOU---USA-USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mkirsch]

Oh no no no... That feed isn't USA made, it's TEXAS made. There's a difference.

Texas, it's like a whole other country.

 

[Dblair]

bet there's a lot of Texans that wish their
forefathers had given it more thought before they
had joined the rest of us . Once your in you can't get out and you will do as they say .

 

[oldtanker]

(quoted from post at 05:36:15 03/20/13) Oh no no no... That feed isn't USA made, it's TEXAS made. There's a difference.

Texas, it's like a whole other country.

That means it's full oh s##@t!

RIck

 

[Dr. Walt]

U.S.A. or USA ?

If it has the periods after each letter it's United States of America.

If there are NO periods, it was made in USA, JAPAN. That's right, the Japanese named a town USA so that they could sell their cheap junk & everyone would think it was made in the United States. Very common to see stuff stamped "Made in USA" back in the 1950's & 60's .

 

[dcarp]

No way, Paycheck.
I saw the race this year in Cuero, 10 yds from finish line, and I can tell you Paycheck cheated. Nothing worse than a cheaten turkey, deserved to be eaten.
Turkeyfest in Cuero is lots of fun. Lots of beer gets downed and lots of turkey drumsticks get eaten.

 

[Texasmark1]

Back in '49/'50 in particular, and I think I may have seen one on a '56 Ford. They had a white oval paper decal in the rear window. Had a Lasso around the perimeter and in the center the words: Made in Texas by Texans. There was a plant in Dallas.

We had one, a '51, 2 door Custom, V8 with one of Ford's first automatic transmissions duly named Ford-O-Matic. Ford wanted his name on everything.

Funny, I am currently reading the book "Wheels for the World" by Douglas Brinkley. Interesting insight into the early industrial revolution in this country, how everything was perfect for the time to make it happen, and especially Henry Ford and the impact he had on it. He was his own man and had quite an abstract personality.

He was obsessed with the T keeping it in production for 19 years. I think the year was 1919, toward the end of the T era, the name Ford was on 1/4 of the automobiles in the world and was sold around the world.

His T was in tune with the times with undeveloped roads, farmers, mountaineers, and urbanites alike. He was obsessed with perfection and wanted it perfect. Then he set about to increase production and cut price........can you believe that....the guy was obsessed with cutting the price and making his car available for the "Little Man" (Song by Alan Jackson).

Course we all know he set the pay scale for industry at twice the going rate at the time ($5 per day) and cut the hours to 8 and week days so that people could afford to buy his cars and had time off to use them.....knowing industry would have to follow suit and HE would sell that many more cars to the "Little Man".

Over the years he reduced the price from an initial price of about $950 in the early turn of the century to $440 around 1920 with constant improvements primarily for reliability.

But his obsession had it's problems. One in particular was that he thought that his T was the perfect car and he fought his team's wanting to build cars in tune with the 20's like other mfgrs. were doing. That cost him a lot of sales.

Interesting reading. I'm only about 1/3 of the way through the book and we are still on the subject of the T.

Mark

 

[JMOR]

(quoted from post at 23:39:51 03/19/13) I remember when Ford Trucks had that logo too. Where did you get that feed?

ord's was a bit different:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/tinkerbb/HOTRODPRIMER/odds and ends/BITBT.jpg

 

[smallercrawler]

Dr.Walt, I remember the short-lived hullaballo in the U.S. media when that was discovered.
Made me remember a Russian publicity coup in the 60s(?). U.S. was providing grain to Bangaladesh(?), and as the load was broken down and distributed, an "official" was stamping each bag with a large rubber stamp. After several days someone questioned who he was/what he was doing. Turned out the stamp said something like "from your friends in the Soviet Union" in the native language.

 

[Russ from MN]

One of the best things about Henry Ford is when he doubled the wages of his workers, so they could afford his cars! Totally different concept by today's big business!

 

[EricInSEI]

Usa, Japan was named that before there was a United States of America. In fact, the Usa shrine was built in 725 AD. It's just a coincidence.

 

[ben there]

The decal on my dad's 59 1/2 ton was different.Same wording,but different graphics.

 

[smallercrawler]

Eric, sure looks like you're right! Never had reason to question it before, hard to believe that the media would misrepresent things (yeah right). Good catch!

 

[dr sportster]

Folklore !