tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post1950469733821905497..comments2023-12-15T02:04:08.213-08:00Comments on meat: "Accidental farmers" reviewBruce Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10995706761794063165noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-45539474694431280702012-03-27T18:50:20.976-07:002012-03-27T18:50:20.976-07:00perhaps a re title would be best for this book... ...perhaps a re title would be best for this book... <br /><br />A Cautionary Tale of<br />how to go broke playing farmersheilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10216149086520612937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-42760387655555991042012-03-27T14:30:05.375-07:002012-03-27T14:30:05.375-07:00What sort of irritates me about the whole deal is ...What sort of irritates me about the whole deal is that Tim appeared as an expert on Fox, his farm was on the Food Channel (I think that was the one) representing the local, slow food, or sustainable farms (whatever was the buzz word at the moment), and I saw them on The Georgia Farm Monitor show as an example of the new desirable type of farm and farmer of the future. <br /><br />Do you want someone like Tim representing you or your farm or defining local, or sustainable farming (not to mention being "the most awesome, sustainable farm in America and the entire whole Universe"? <br /><br />He posted videos of his farm that clearly showed him loading cattle up to take to be butchered about a year after he first bought cattle (those must have been some quick growing calves) And, those cattle were Hereford and black baldies while he was claiming that he was selling home-raised Murray Gray cattle that produced the best grass-fed beef in the world. <br /><br />How would someone in his area that was actually doing what he was claiming to be doing (raising their own calves and finishing them on grass) compete with someone that was buying steers and marketing them as home-raised and finished?<br /><br />I think he ran his farm using these types of methods, and when people started looking at his blog and figured out what he was doing, along with his animal husbandry methods, the novelty wore off and they stopped buying his products.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11412944120622315804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-62674645080915372072012-03-27T11:48:59.983-07:002012-03-27T11:48:59.983-07:00Eightway, I hear you. My goal here is to talk abo...Eightway, I hear you. My goal here is to talk about farming, and part of that discussion are people who are promoting various farm practices. So I write about the farm incubator as a good idea, and this sort of stuff, too. <br /><br />Tim can do whatever he'd like to on his farm, and I'm glad that he's found another new idea that he can promote in the form of farmstead cheese. <br /><br />I just disagree with his conclusions as stated in this book. The problem wasn't the animals or the idea. <br /><br />As I've said had he overcome these issues and made a go of it it would have been a much more interesting book, or if he'd just talked about why it didn't work for him.Bruce Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10995706761794063165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-87084922231176899052012-03-27T09:30:47.895-07:002012-03-27T09:30:47.895-07:00I like your posts about farming a lot more than on...I like your posts about farming a lot more than ones picking on feeble farmers. <br /><br />Keep it positive.<br /><br />Maybe this blog becomes a nucleus for your own book?Eightwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05578189394559089323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-85744224193453535032012-03-27T08:01:59.388-07:002012-03-27T08:01:59.388-07:00To me, you should only write a book if what you ha...To me, you should only write a book if what you have done is successful. If it isn't, you don't know what you are doing yet and then you just have a book full of "what not to do".becky3086https://www.blogger.com/profile/01026872543168452124noreply@blogger.com