Random Thoughts 17: Here we go again.
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Spotted at the Ohio State Wisconsin men's hockey game. 
Those damn
Okay, I know I’m late to the party, but I don’t normally look at the grocery store since we gotta buy food. Holy cow, over $6 for a dozen eggs. Breakfast was always dirt cheap, but last time I really paid attention it was a little over 2. Time for the kids to eat French toast instead of scrambled eggs.
I wonder if avian flu had a hand in this as well...it seemed like a lot of flocks were infected and euthanized in the past couple of years.
It's a particular RTTers birthday, and as a gift (gif?), here's the cutest one I could find.
I honestly don’t pay as much attention as I should to some news events. Got tired of everything is politics all the time and kinda tuned out news. I think I remember hearing some of this in some of my ag news stuff.
There is a large egg farm near me. It used to have close to 10MM birds, but with the conversions they are making, they are down to 500k or so last I heard. They sold specifically liquid eggs to McDs. I know they are still working on conversions and have doubled the barns and I heard they are figuring they can go to 3-4 MM by the time everything is done.
Not sure if this is the norm or just them changing since they got sold.
It's the biggest part of it but gets downplayed by some that want to beat the inflation drum. I agree with the perfect story analysis of the flu killing layers, inflation and the ever present supply chain issues that seem to be ongoing with my grocery products. If it was just "inflation" the egg cooler in my grocery, typically full, won't be almost empty each day. It's not like TP where you can stock up and hoard a six month supply and leave the shelve empty for the next unlucky shopper.
Pretty good summary from NBC:
“As it is now, this is the largest animal emergency that the USDA has faced in this country,” said Gino Lorenzoni, an assistant professor of poultry science and avian health at Pennsylvania State University.
More than 40 million egg-laying hens have been culled in the U.S. alone, causing the price of eggs nationwide to skyrocket, Lorenzoni said. Months earlier, the “bird flu” outbreak drove the cost of turkey meat to record highs.
The avian flu is hammering U.S. poultry farmers, leaving experts to ask: What has changed?
More than 40 million egg-laying hens have been culled in the U.S. alone, making it the worst outbreak on record.
www.nbcnews.com
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Did some quick googling. Apparently this place converting over the last year or two makes a bigger difference than I thought. At one time it housed 1/6 of all layers in Iowa and Iowa produces more than #2 and #3 combined. So if they can’t sell to McDs then McDs probably is grabbing eggs from a lot of other places.
One of my dads cousins just dropped off an obit for a relative I apparently had in Tomahawk , WI. Had heard of this clan, but have never met them. At least I know where they were located in the state
My obit story. Saw a news article that one of the last Tuskegee Airman, from Mpls, had died. He was the younger brother of an old gentlemen I had a chance to chat with about WWII during a neighborhood get together. Wish I had chatted with him more. He did let me know his brother was a Tuskegee Airman, was quite proud of that. "Bubba" had grown up in an interrogated neighborhood and gone to North in Mpls back when it was a really good HS. The way he talked was like he had sort of grown up somewhat sheltered from the worst of racism and that the army was a bit of a shock for him. He was down south training (before going to Europe) in a segregated unit and was really surprised at the education levels where a lot of the guys hadn't even gone to HS let alone a decent one like Bubba had attended.
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You seen the new commercial where a guy says he’s never been this close to his gardener and she corrects him as a landscape architect?
I forget, will report back when I see it next time. It’s in quite a bit.
Thought it was constant contact but wasnt' sure.
There is a longer one, but could only find the short one on youtube.
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Happy Birthday, KC!
We went to the zoo last weekend and in the Primate House the orangutauns had a couple of sheets to entertain themselves. One was playing with hers right up by the window and then she covered herself entirely up. A young male came up and she lifted an edge up so he could join her in her sheet "fort". The sheets were a hit with the Homo Sapiens and the Pongoids.
Phone was totally dead and I hadn't gotten my new one yet so I wasn't able to get a picture of KC and Lew playing fort.
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