Polasek's Coaching Staff Discussion

[scottietohottie]

I'm pretty sure it's Tim's job to set the price of tea in China.

[southcliffbison]

Sad fact of the matter is, every generation gets further removed from agriculture and could really care less about the American farmer. At one time, everybody had an uncle or grandpa that farmed and they used to visit when they were kids. As they grow up and have kids and grandkids, those subsequent generations become less and less interested and removed from the “family farm” and apathy sets in as to where their food comes in. I’m one of those farmers in Cass and it’s really on us to better educate people as to how we truly care for the land and teach them about what we’re doing. That’s assuming you have a willing audience and we have to be willing participants in that process. I’ll be the first to admit, sometimes we’re our own worst enemy.

Scottie nailed it. The price of farm equipment has far out-paced the value of the product in a lot of cases. His $250k combine is used, probably, less than 30 days a year. And I’m just guessing his combine is at least 10-15 years old.

I thought Scottie's farm tractor was a 1949 International Farmall "M" (wide front of course for the plow furrow) to pull the 3 bottom plow and a "B" Allis Chalmers to pull the 7 ft sickle mower and the 10 ft dump rake to make hay. I would never have thought it.......

[PlrbrBison]

Did you Ask Jeeves?


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I don't know what Prodigy is but all the rest of you two guys references are quite nostalgic.

[AlumniGreen]

I thought Scottie's farm tractor was a 1949 International Farmall "M" (wide front of course for the plow furrow) to pull the 3 bottom plow and a "B" Allis Chalmers to pull the 7 ft sickle mower and the 10 ft dump rake to make hay. I would never have thought it.......

Minnesota Moline.

[MyOhMy]

I don't know what Prodigy is but all the rest of you two guys references are quite nostalgic.

If you didnt have the joy of anonymously mailed Prodigy service disks (floppy or CD) or magazine inserts, you're really missing out, it was a proto-AOL...

prodigy.jpgprodigyfloppy.jpgprodigycd.jpg

You can still enjoy an emulated experience here... https://archive.org/details/prodigydemo_SoftwareLibrary

[AlumniGreen]

[QUOTE=NI4NI;1655534]Common sense would indicate that as food becomes more and more expensive people would become better educated about the struggles of our farmers. Sadly common sense is no longer a common commodity. In fact as food prices have skyrocketed, some evil ones use this to blame and vilify the farmers. /QUOTE]

It is probably the "middleman" who contributes somewhat to higher food prices. By the way, WHO is the middleman? I have never met a person who when I ask what they do for a living, they reply, "I am a middleman." LOL.

[mtoutfitter]

[QUOTE=AlumniGreen;1655607]

Common sense would indicate that as food becomes more and more expensive people would become better educated about the struggles of our farmers. Sadly common sense is no longer a common commodity. In fact as food prices have skyrocketed, some evil ones use this to blame and vilify the farmers. /QUOTE]

It is probably the "middleman" who contributes somewhat to higher food prices. By the way, WHO is the middleman? I have never met a person who when I ask what they do for a living, they reply, "I am a middleman." LOL.

Feedlots, Cattle buyers, Packers, Wholesalers, Retailers....Speaking for the livestock end of the industry.

[NI4NI]

[QUOTE=mtoutfitter;1655614]

Feedlots, Cattle buyers, Packers, Wholesalers, Retailers....Speaking for the livestock end of the industry.

To be fair, most industries have 'middlemen'.

[mtoutfitter]

[QUOTE=NI4NI;1655618]

To be fair, most industries have 'middlemen'.

I was just answering Alumni Green's question about "who are the middlemen"

[tolnabison]

Izzo reported earlier that it looks like Polasek needs to hire a CB coach too. Lewis Walker going back to Monmouth to be their DC.

https://x.com/domizzowday/status/174...s_A8kKzcXrRkKg

Now I see that the tweet has been deleted. So maybe it wasn't true.