Animal feed

There were some reductions.

Feed costs are down 2.1%, labors down almost 1%, and pesticides are down about 6.5%.

So moving forward, you know, coming into the weekend, you're probably going to see a fair amount of harvest pressure in what's expected to be a flurry of activity trying to get this crop in before these rains come next week.

For wheat, you know, finding a little buoyancy here from potential business from China, that's always a nice shot in the arm.

You can't put food so deep in the mouths of doves or chickens in a place that they can't spit it out.

We're talking about force-feeding animals.

I don't know so much about farming.

I'm not sure this is a practice that's done so much today.

And he says it goes without saying, you can put food in front of an animal so that it can eat.

And then the last halacha for today.

When does this apply, what we've been talking about, feeding animals? We're talking about an animal that a person is responsible for feeding, and he says someone's domesticated animals, someone's beasts, doves that someone raises in their own home, geese and chickens.

אבל מי שאין מזון אותיו עליו כגון חזיר ויוני שובח ודבורים, לא ייתן לפניהם לא מזון ולא מים.

Or Alexander Quay West is a different kettle of fish because you have two dry docks.

You had Hall's Animal Feed, also the Gullien's Jetty, which was for fertilizer.

And then you have Tara Mines, which is the lead and zinc mine.

I think it's one of the largest ones in Europe and ninth in the world with all their zinc and lead ore.

Yeah

... or k- continue to produce more and more of our own livestock feed.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, and you're, you guys are ones really doing that out there on the terraces, and then spending, uh, a week with Shawn and Beth Doherty-