Gideon Long
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42 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Sep
Gideon Long’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They are, and that's another reason why the herd isn't rebuilding faster, because the average American cattle producer is in his or her late 50s or 60s, close to retirement, and some say that their sons and daughters are not necessarily willing to follow in their footsteps.
Well, so far, everyone is getting more money.
The rancher's calf is well up on last year.
We heard that from Eric.
Brenda's told us the feedlot's finished animal has more than doubled in price since 2021.
But at every step, the inputs, the cost of the inputs has also gone up.
Feed, fuel, equipment.
Eric was telling us, for example...
how much the price of wooden fence posts has gone up, and he needs thousands of them on the acres that he's ranching.
So more money coming in, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're making more money, keeping more money.
Well, the truth is nobody really, because they're all selling at higher prices, but they're also buying at higher prices.
And that's same for the packers.
It's same for the wholesalers, for the restaurateurs, everyone along the chain.
They're all turning over more money than they used to, but almost none of them is keeping more of it.
It's not really going into anybody's pocket.
Every link is paying more for the same animal and passing most of it on.
So the money isn't being made, it's being eaten by scarcity, scarcity of cows.
You can't.
I mean, it takes the better part of three years to turn a breeding decision into a burger.
And that's been exacerbated by drought that broke two years ago.
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