Breezy Hill Update 31310
- The next hog day will be this week. Probably on Wednesday. If you have indicated that you wanted some pork, please reconfirm with an e-mail just to make sure your request was not lost. Anyone else just let me know. They will be about $150-175 for the whole hog (divide by two if you want a half) and the processing is about $200 per hog ($100 for a half).
- We still have some wheat and honey.
- We have some lard from a previous hog day.
- We have eggs.
- The milk situation may be getting better next week. I may be getting a loaner for six weeks until Lila calves. Daisy is having an udder issue and I have turned her calf out with her. Perhaps nature will solve the problem.
. Health concerns used to block imports of U.S. meat
Russia has used two concerns about health - use of chlorine as a disinfectant in poultry processing plants and use of antibiotics in pork production – as reasons to ban some U.S. meat imports. Russia, a major trading partner, began blocking imports of U.S. poultry in January, citing concerns about chlorine treatment, which is a long-standing and common practice in the United States. European Union countries have also invoked chlorine treatment as a reason to block U.S. poultry imports in the past. Russia has also banned U.S. pork imports from all but a few production plants due to quality issues, primarily antibiotic residues in pork. Antibiotic resistance is another health concern that could be used by our trading partners as an excuse to block imports. Read more from Reuters, or read Representative Louise Slaughter's op-ed in The Columbia Missourian about antibiotic resistance and trade issues.
Interesting and educational on soils. http://forces.si.edu/soils/index.html
Just for fun. I was in the 2%. How did you do?
See how well you do compared to the national averages.
Test your knowledge with 12 questions, then be ready to shudder when you see how others did. http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php
Do you know someone with Alzheimer’s disease? Perhaps this would have helped them 20 years ago. This is a disease of our civilization.
We still have two yogurt makers for sale, $20.
Be careful with store yogurts. Eat kraut and a grassfed hot dog, or make your own yogurt. http://probiotics.mercola.com/probiotics.html
that's it from the hill. Art and Debra