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Wisconsin Grazing Dairy Profitability Analysis
Preliminary Fifth Year Summary
Tom Kriegl
UW. Center For Dairy Profitability
Wisconsin Forage Council Symposium
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
January 23, 2001
Is grazing or conventional dairying more profitable? Many are eagerly awaiting the definitive study to prove that one of the systems is clearly superior in most if not all ways. Not only will we wait a long time for that study, but the expectation for it distracts us from the more important question of –"Which system is best for your family and farm?"
There will never be a study to determine for once and for all and for all conditions that grazing is more or less profitable than conventional dairy farming in the humid part of the US. This is because the "state of the art" allows some practitioners of each strategy to be successful. Secondly, management continues to be the single most important factor determining business success in farming (and in many other businesses too). We can see the evidence of the importance of management everyday.
We are all very aware that many variables affect productive performance, and economic performance is subject to all of these variables plus the added uncertainty of price variability.
We know that grazing is the "conventional" system in New Zealand, Ireland and other places.
Even before the Wisconsin Grazing Dairy Profitability Analysis (WGDPA), we knew that some graziers succeed while others fail (though we lacked the actual farm financial data we desired). We knew the same was true for conventional operations. There have been more studies addressing the economics of grazing than most people realize but all of these studies have limitations, most of which are due to the scarcity of graziers with several years of good data. Graziers in Wis. with several years of good data are quite scarce relative to conventional dairy farmers. The same is true in most other states.
Still, most of these studies and the Wisconsin Grazing Dairy Profitability Analysis confirm the above observations-that Grazing (Management Intensive Rotational Grazing- MIRG) is an economically viable alternative for many Wisconsin farm families.
The Wisconsin Grazing Dairy Profitability Analysis relies on actual farm financial data to help answer the following questions;
- Is grazing economically viable?
- Where does each system work best?
- What practices make each system most viable?
- How can each system be managed for the benefit of the families operating them?
Gathering actual farm financial data is easier said than done. Most of the participants in the Wisconsin Grazing Dairy Farm Profitability Analysis indicated their willingness to participate by answering yes to a question on a 1994 Survey of Wisconsin Grazing Dairy Farmers. Eighty-four graziers said yes on the survey, but only 45 graziers sent data following a direct one-to-one follow up contact. The numbers of participants have narrowed down as follows;
- 45 graziers provided some financial data.
- 26 graziers provided one year of usable financial data for the first year analysis.
- 25 graziers provided two years of usable financial data for the second year analysis.
- 21 graziers provided three years of usable financial data for the third year analysis.
- 19 graziers provided four years of usable financial data for the fourth year analysis.
- 17 of the original graziers provided five years of usable financial data for the fifth year analysis. Four new farms were added in 1999.
These are rather small numbers to compare and still obtain results that would be representative of the grazing dairy industry of Wisconsin. Consequently, considerable time and effort was devoted to examining the data for accuracy and consistency.
The major conclusions in the fourth year report were strengthened with the addition of a fifth year of data. However, one may find small differences when comparing individual numbers from the reports from different years of the WGDPA. This is because 21 farms provided three years of usable data for the third year report and 19 farms provided four years of usable data for the fourth year report. In the fourth year report, all group averages for the first three years were recalculated to include data only from the 19 farms. In the fifth year, two of the "original" 19 farms "dropped out." Four new farms were added to bring the total number of farms back to 21 for 1999. None of the new farms supplied data back to 1995. For this reason plus the ones that follow, no recalculations of previous years averages was done for the fifth year preliminary report.
Two of the new herds calve seasonally, but one of the original seasonal calving herds in the WGDPA became non-seasonal at the beginning of 1999. Finally, in 1999 tax depreciation was used on all farms in the WDGPA to make the data more similar to the data from the FFAMIS farms.
The third year report added a direct comparison of the financial data from more conventional Wis. dairy farms to different types of grazing operations. Specifically, selected financial performance measures of types of graziers in the study are compared with several selected measures from the 800 plus "conventional" dairy farms, (ranging in size from 19 to 1300 cows) in the Fox Valley and Lakeshore Farm Management Association (FFAMIS) data sets. These Farm Management Associations are cooperatives which provide a variety of farm financial management services to their member/clients. This data has also been used by Dr. Gary Frank of the U. W. Center for Dairy Profitability to do an annual report titled "Milk Production Costs on Selected Wisconsin Dairy Farms". The final fifth year report of the Wisconsin Grazing Dairy Profitability Analysis will include a similar milk production cost analysis.
The computer system used by the Fox Valley and Lakeshore Farm Management Associations during these five years is known as Farm Financial Analysis and Management Information System (FFAMIS) and the data from these farms will be referred to in this analysis as FFAMIS data or farms.
As with conventional farms, "one size does not fit all" in grazing operations. So in addressing the study's questions, it's important to define the kinds of farms being analyzed and compared in this study.
Types of Conventional or Confinement Dairy Farms
The terms conventional and confinement are often used loosely and inter changeably and therefore need to be clarified for the purposes of the WGDPA. For many years, the typical Wisconsin dairy farm housed and milked cows in two story stanchion barns, raised and mechanically harvested most of the feed (including grain) used on the farm and calved and milked cows all year. Most of these farms were about the size that one family could handle without much hired labor. Because cattle on this type of farms are confined to buildings or paved lots most of the time, the term confinement became a popular term to describe them. Since most Wisconsin dairy farms shared these characteristics for many years, the term conventional also became a popular term to describe them. "Traditional confinement" or simply "traditional" are better terms to use to differentiate them from the other farms often referred to as conventional or confinement farms.
Beginning mainly in the 1990s, some Wisconsin farms expanded to much larger sizes and built entirely new facilities including free stall barns, with natural ventilation, milking parlors, etc. They continued to raise and deliver mechanically harvested feed (including grain) to their confined cattle. They continued to calve, and milk year-round.
Most of the labor is hired on such farms and many have 300 or more cows. This type is also often referred to as conventional but is better described as "large modern confinement".
The FFAMIS farms include all types of Wisconsin dairy farms, including a few graziers and large modern confinement farms, but most of the farms in the FFAMIS system are traditional in type. Most referrals in the WGDPA to confinement, conventional, or FFAMIS will be referrals mainly to "traditional" farms.
Types Of Grazing Dairy Farms
To be included in the study, a dairy farm practicing management intensive rotational grazing (MIRG) had to be big enough to potentially support a family in exchange for family labor (this doesn't preclude hired help). Dairy and forage (often grass) are the major enterprises and the dairy cows graze about half of the forage they consume. Pastures are rotated daily in most cases. "Winter" forage is likely to be raised on the farm in a typical year. Grain is likely to be fed in near conventional amounts although grain is less likely to be raised on the farm. Being a low or high input operator alone doesn't eliminate someone from being considered a grazier. Young stock are likely to graze on the farm.
Since being able to make the right investment decisions should enhance economic performance, it is useful to categorize graziers in a way to reflect these investment decisions. These categories will be transitional and non- transitional.
Non-Transitional Graziers
A "typical" non- transitional (low capital) grazing operation then is loosely defined for Wisconsin as one in which the assets are more or less ideally suited for grazing and where the livestock harvest about half of the forage consumed in a typical year. The investment (and fixed costs per cow) represented by land, buildings, and equipment is less than in a high capital or transitional grazing operation for several reasons: 1) the decision to graze was probably made simultaneously with the decision to dairy, 2) much of the land may be steeper, stonier or wetter than class I, II or III soil, 3) there is less machinery and/or it's older, 4) there are fewer buildings and are usually older, 5) or if the operation has the land, buildings and equipment that would allow it to be farmed conventionally without much additional investment, the grazier bought it for a discounted price.
Transitional (high capital) Graziers
Any farm with enough land, buildings, equipment and investment to farm conventionally, but also has chosen the grazing practices described above recently enough to have the investment structure of a "conventional" farm is considered a high capital or transitional grazier because it has a foot in both systems. Also important to the definition of this category is that the land, buildings and equipment were not obtined at a discounted price. All transitional graziers in the study operated their farms as traditional confinement systems before switching to MIRG.
The high capital or transitional grazier is more likely to raise and feed grain in larger quantities and is less likely to practice seasonal calving.
Categorizing graziers into these categories still relies heavily on judgment. However, the key difference is that the "ideal" non-transitional grazier has very little invested beyond what is needed for a grazing operation. Therefore their profit potential should be greater than expected for transitional graziers.
Seasonal vs. Non-seasonal Calving
The seasonal calving strategy is an independent practice that is used extensively in combination with MIRG in New Zealand and in some other places, but not so extensively in other places, such as Wisconsin and Argentina. In this study, a herd is not considered seasonal unless the dry period of all the cows in the herd overlap enough to shut down the milking facility for more than a day and preferably for at least a few weeks. Defined as semi-seasonal are those herds that make a serious attempt to "bunch" their calving to one or two times of the year, but don't sacrifice healthy, highly productive animals that don't quite fit that mold. A semi-seasonal calving herd milks at least one cow every day of the year (and many more on most days). Any calving strategy not meeting the preceding seasonal definition is referred to as non-seasonal in this analysis.
Physical Performance Indicators
Appendix one and two provide some physical characteristic information about two (transitional and non-transitional) groups of graziers in the study. Appendix one uses cow and acreage data from 1995, while appendix two uses cow and acreage data from 1998.
The average non-transitional grazier averages fewer years of farming experience but more years of grazing experience. However, if two long time graziers were omitted from this group, the remaining low capital graziers would only average 7.9 years of farming and 3.1 years of grazing at the beginning of the study. This is actually a little bit less grazing time than logged by the transitional group.
The average non-transitional grazier had fewer owned and harvested acres and is less likely to mechanically harvest forage or grow grain.
The non-transitional and transitional graziers harvested 3.3 and 2.34 forage acres per cow respectively, in 1998, and most of them buy some if not all of their grain. This compares with the old thumb rule of needing 3 acres per cow in Wisconsin to provide all the feed needed for a cow and her share of the young stock except for mineral and protein supplement. Only one grazier in the study feeds little or no grain. The FFAMIS farms had 3.27 crop and pasture acres per cow in 1998, down from 3.34 in 1997, 3.5 in 1996, and 3.6 in 1995. Most of the FFAMIS farms grew much of the corn consumed on the farm. Acres used for growing grain were included in the preceding acre per cow numbers for the FFAMIS farms.
The average herd size has increased in all three groups but the FFAMIS herd size average is about twice as large as the non-transitional graziers with the transitional group fitting almost half way in between.
For pounds of milk sold per cow, the average FFAMIS farm was higher than the transitional graziers, for the last three years. The non-transitional graziers were consistently lowest by a large margin. Production per cow increased for the average FFAMIS farm for all five years, but for all grazier groups, production per cow was less in in 1998 than in 1995.
One of the original purposes of the Wisconsin Grazing Dairy Profitability Analysis was to provide financial benchmarks for graziers. Developing reliable benchmarks requires much information. It's also very important to understand how to use the benchmarks as it is to have the benchmarks. Unfortunately that understanding is seldom gained easily or quickly.
To effectively use benchmarks to project the success of any business including a grazing dairy, its important to have a good understanding of enough benchmarks to project and monitor the relationship of the three major factors of profitability which are;
- income generation;
- the control of investment/debt and;
- the control of operating costs.
Benchmarks can be used to summarize the many important underlying details of a part of a farm business financial situation. They can be used individually as indicators of strengths and weaknesses of a business. They can be used together to assess the overall financial performance of a farm business. To do this effectively, one must have at least a decent understanding of the type of business being analyzed. It's not good enough just to know if a key financial measurement deviates significantly from a benchmark value. One needs to know why it deviates. Not until one knows why it deviates can one accurately say whether it's a problem or not, and if its a problem, what could or should be done about it.
Never use one benchmark to make important decisions and don't think of benchmarks as absolute values. In other words, no single benchmark will guarantee success or failure. Still, some benchmarks are more important than others are.
Fortunately we have universally reliable values for the two most comprehensive and therefore most important benchmarks, which are the rate of return on assets (ROROA) and rate of return on equity (ROROE).
The benchmark values for ROROA and ROROE are the same for all types of dairy operations–in fact for all businesses. Both should be higher than the rate of inflation and higher than the interest rate one is paying on borrowed money. For those who are debt free, ROROA and ROROE should be higher than inflation and higher than one's opportunity cost.
Two other important features of ROROA and ROROE are that they can be used to compare businesses (farms) of different sizes. Secondly once you calculate one, calculation of the other one is easy.
Performance of Transitional Vs Non-Transitional Graziers Vs FFAMIS Dairy Farms
ROROA values for the average grazier in the study exceeded the interest rate on borrowed money in all years but 1997. The average ROROA for non-transitional graziers was higher than the average ROROA for the transitional graziers in 1995, 1998 and 1999 but not in the other two years. Despite the importance and usefulness of ROROA and ROROE, they are not printed in this preliminary report. This is because asset values in the grazing data are handled differently than asset values for the FFAMIS farms. Even so, all of the income reported for both sets of farms comes from the operation-not from asset appreciation.
Net farm income from operations per cow (NFIFO/cow) is another benchmark that can be used to make "apples to apples" comparisons of financial performance between businesses of different sizes. It also directly measures the impact of two of the three most important components of profitability- 1. operating income and 2. control of operating expense.
In the WGDPA, NFIFO/cow for the non-transitional graziers was higher than the NFIFO/cow for the transitional graziers in 1995 and 1998 but not in 1996 and 1997. The FFAMIS (mainly traditional) farms were lower in all four years. Interestingly enough, the NFIFO/cow trends upward for the transitional graziers and downward for the other two groups from 1995 to 1997, before reaching the study's high point for all groups in 1998. For most groups, 1999 financial performance came in a close second to 1999.
The $3433 range from the lowest (-$460) to highest ($2973) NFIFO/cow value from any grazing herd during the five years is astounding especially from a group as small as 19 to 21 farms.
In terms of investment per cow, the transitional graziers had the highest level in two of the first three years and in all years were similar to the FFAMIS farms. The non-transitional graziers had investment levels that were considerably lower, but not as low as most people expect. The high/low range in this measure for the graziers in the study is also large.
The comments made about investment per cow apply to debt per cow with two additions. In looking at the individual grazier's data, it's obvious that the debt level has been influencing profitability much more than investment levels have influenced profitability. The FFAMIS farms consistently had higher debt per cow levels than the transitional graziers. The non-transitional grazier's debt per cow levels was lowest of all. The debt per cow of the seasonal herds increased substantially from 1996 to 1997 and remained at a fairly high level in 1999.
Measuring the Cost of Milk Production in Wisconsin Grazing Dairy Herds
The cost of production is not yet updated beyond the fourth year report. Cost of production is extremely important to any business! But as important as the cost of production is, it must be put into perspective.
Many seem to think the cost of production is the economic bottom line. In fact, the cost of production is at least one step away from the economic bottom line of a business. This becomes a bit easier to understand by examining the three major factors of profitability, which are:
- Control of Investment/Debt
- Control of Operating Expense
- Income Generation
As it is referred to, the cost of production directly deals with operating cost and indirectly deals with investment/debt control. It doesn't deal with the third factor – income generation.
Graziers tend to over focus on controlling cost and investment while non-graziers tend to over focus on income generation.
The most successful managers optimize the interrelationship of all three.
Because all businesses must cover all costs to succeed in the long run, it's important to calculate "total cost." However there are other cost categories that are useful too. Getting more detailed breakdowns below total cost can help determine why costs are high or low. Dr. Gary Frank of the University of Wisconsin Center For Dairy Profitability in his annual (since 1992) cost of milk production on selected Wisconsin dairy farms report has popularized two other cost groupings called "allocated costs" and "basic costs." He compares all three cost groupings on a per cow and per cwt. of milk equivalent sold basis. To make it easy to compare the grazier's cost of production data with that of conventional farms the following cost measures have been calculated (but not always reported) for some years of the study:
- Total cost per cwt. milk equivalent sold
- Total cost per cow
- Allocated cost per cwt. milk equivalent sold
- Allocated cost per cow
- Basic cost per cwt. milk equivalent sold
- Basic cost per cow
All three cost groupings have pluses and minuses. The following definitions will help understand these pluses and minuses.
Total costs include all cash and non-cash costs including the opportunity cost of unpaid labor, management and equity capital. Another way to describe the opportunity cost is that it is a reasonable reward for the unpaid labor, management and capital supplied by the owning family.
The total cost concept is needed to determine the minimum cost required to meet all financial obligations of the business, which includes a satisfactorily reward for the owners' unpaid labor, management and equity capital.
Since many business owners are willing to work for less than the opportunity cost of their labor, management and equity, the allocated cost group becomes useful too.
Traditionally, total cost is divide into fixed and variable cost. While these traditional cost breakdowns are still valid, there are some difficulties associated with comparisons of the financial performance of farms of greatly differing size and type that aren't adequately handled by these traditional measures. Therefore, other measures can be useful.
Total allocated cost equals total cost minus the opportunity cost of unpaid labor, management and capital supplied by the owning family. Since opportunity cost isn't consciously calculated by everyone, allocated cost is often used by default in place of total cost.
Caution must be exercised in comparing the allocated costs of graziers versus FFAMIS farms. Included in the expenses of many of the FFAMIS farms are wages and benefits to dependent family members primarily for tax purposes. Wage and benefit payments made to dependent family members were not included in expenses of grazing farms. So far, its not been possible to determine how much this difference inflates allocated costs of the FFAMIS farms.
Basic cost per hundred weight of milk equivalent sold (hereafter referred to simply as basic cost/cwt.) is another useful measure. Allocated cost minus the cost of interest, depreciation, labor, and management equals basic cost. Another way of saying this is that basic costs are all the cash and non-cash costs except interest, depreciation, labor, and management.
Basic cost is a useful measure for comparing one farm to another because it is not influenced by the farm's debt structure, the amount of paid versus unpaid labor, or the capital consumption claimed (depreciation). The fact that some farms have only unpaid labor while others pay family members or non-family hired help makes it difficult to compare farms fairly on only a total cost basis or on the basis of fixed and variable costs. The costs of interest, depreciation and management also have characteristics that make direct comparisons difficult. Basic cost is very similar to the cost of goods concept that is commonly used by many non-farm businesses.
Since basic cost primarily includes day-to-day expenses (those most affected by daily decisions), its use allows a fairly good look at how well the grazing farms control operating costs compared to more conventional farms.
The difference between the allocated cost and the basic cost provides some indication of the impact of investment/debt control on the cost of production.
The average allocated and basic cost is calculated per cwt. for several groups of graziers for the first three years of the study. (Some of the same computer difficulties that delayed the calculations for the first three years have delayed the 1998 calculations.) When all the graziers in the study are compared with the FFAMIS farms, their basic cost was 95 cents/cwt. less in 1995, 75 cents less in 1996, but only seven cents less in 1997.
Among the graziers, those which are non-seasonal, use DHI or are transitional, tend to have lower basic costs then their opposites in the study for the first three years. Only the seasonal, and the non-transitional, non-DHI group of graziers in 1996 and1997 had higher basic costs than the FFAMIS farms.
Among the graziers, those which are non-seasonal or are non-transitional tend to have lower allocated costs than their opposites. The non-transitional users of DHI had lower allocated costs than non-transitional non-DHI users. When all graziers were divided into users and non-users of DHI, users were lower two out of the first three years. All categories of graziers have lower allocated costs than the FFAMIS farms. When all the graziers in the study are compared with the FFAMIS farms, their allocated cost was $1.81/cwt. less in 1995, $2.25 less in 1996, and $2.05 less in 1997.
When the basic cost margin is subtracted from the allocated cost margin between the average grazier and the FFAMIS farms, the graziers paid $0.86/cwt. less in 1995, $1.50 less in 1996, and $1.98 less in 1997 per cwt. of milk equivalent sold for interest, depreciation, labor and management. Caution must be exercised in comparing the allocated costs of graziers versus FFAMIS farms. Included in the expenses of many of the FFAMIS farms are wages and benefits to dependent family members primarily for tax purposes. Wage and benefit payments made to dependent family members were not included in expenses of grazing farms. So far, its not been possible to determine how much this difference inflates allocated costs of the FFAMIS farms. This is one of the issues that has delayed the completion of cost of production comparisons.
It may be surprising to see that the transitional herds had slightly lower basic costs than the non-transitional herds. This relationship indicates that the amount of investment (while important) may not be as important as what one invests in.
Graziers with higher NFIFO/cow also had lower basic cost/cwt. equivalent of milk sold. This suggests that there is much more to controlling operating costs than just not spending money. Again this suggests that what money is spent on is more important than the amount that is spent.
More details on the individual expense items will be calculated and reported in the final fifth year report.
Economic Impact of Selected "Low Input" Practices Among Low Capital Graziers
Those who promote seasonal calving and non-use of DHI often describe these strategies as low input. Promoters often predict that these practices will enhance profitability because of their "low input" nature. Unfortunately, low input doesn't always mean least cost per unit and least cost per unit doesn't always equal maximum profit.
In addition to having separated all the graziers into non-transitional and transitional groups, the graziers were also separated two other ways to calculate the average financial performance of seasonal vs. non-seasonal calving; and DHI use vs. non-DHI use herds in the study.
It's important to recognize that even four years of data from 19 and a fifth year of data from 21 farms still represents a very small number of observations on which to base solid conclusions. So when dividing an already small number into even smaller numbers, one must be even more cautious about conclusions. Still in the absence of better information, one can make some comparisons knowing that they fit those specific farms in those specific circumstances.
As luck would have it, all of the graziers in the study, who are fully seasonal in calving strategy, are within the non-transitional category. Five of the eleven non-transitional graziers are fully seasonal. One of the non-transitional graziers became a certified organic producer during the study. This grazier is also fully seasonal. One farm that had been seasonal during the first four years became non-seasonal for 1999. A non-transitional farm new to the WGDPA in 1999 sold organic milk prior to joining the WGDPA, but didn't in 1999. A transitional non-seasonal farm new to the WGDPA in 1999 does sell organic milk. None of the fully seasonal herds use DHI. This is a long way of saying that in this low capital grazier data set, those graziers which are fully seasonal are unlikely to use DHI and are just slightly more likely to be certified organic. They may be the least conventional (conventional in this case being traditional WI confinement dairy) group among the graziers in the data set.
When the study began, there were three non-transitional graziers that were anticipating organic production and one that was selling organic certified milk. The grazier that was certified organic at the beginning of the study only participated in the study for two years. That data is not included in the third and fourth-year reports. It turns out that only one of the other graziers did enter the certified organic market since the study began. Early drafts of the third year report contained comments about certified organic producers, which were made with the understanding that three of the herds in the study did become organic certified (in keeping with earlier discussions it would be appropriate to categorize this organic herd as a transitional organic certified herd for the term of the study.) It's very dangerous to make many conclusions based on two farms, so any comments about organic producers should not be taken as proof of what other organic producers might experience. However, a few comments will follow that are true comparisons between the two farms in the study which did sell organic milk in 1999 and the other 19.
Among the non-transitional graziers group, those which use DHI, are not fully seasonal, or are not organic certified, have higher NFIFO/Cow than their fellow graziers who follow the alternate practices (Appendix 3 and 4).
The above also holds true when the transitional graziers are brought into all three comparisons, even though the amount of difference decreases in financial performance for the three practices in question.
A careful study of all of these comparisons within the non-transitional group shows that the fully seasonal, non-DHI herds also tend to have substantially more debt per cow despite having a lower investment per cow. When compared to their opposites among all the graziers in the study, these graziers using the "low input" practices had slightly less investment and debt.
While MIRG has provided economic performance to most of the graziers in the study that was competitive with the FFAMIS farms, the graziers in the study using at least one of the "two low input" strategies were less competitive. Only one seasonal herd in the study generated the amount of dollars available for family living in all five years that would satisfy most Wisconsin dairy families. That seasonal herd had about twice as many cows as some of the non-seasonal herds that generated as many or more dollars available for family living.
Ranking the 19 to 21 Graziers by Financial Performance
In the fourth year report, the four year average NFIFO/cow was used to rank the graziers by financial performance. In this fifth year preliminary report when ranking the graziers into a high, middle, and low group based on the 1999 NFIFO/cow, the following observations can be made in comparing the high third with the low third. Most of the following statements also hold true when the graziers are ranked by their five year simple average ROROA.
- All but two or three of the graziers (in the low group) are generating the amount of dollars for family living that would satisfy many Wisconsin farm families.
- NFIFO, NFIFO/Cow, NFIFO/Acre, cash income per cow, investment per cow, and pounds of milk sold per cow were substantially higher for the high group. Debt per cow was lower.
- The margin of difference between the high and low group widened substantially from 1995-1997 for the measures of NFIFO/Cow, debt per cow, and pounds of milk sold per cow, but narrowed in terms of investment per cow.The trend continued through 1999 for NFIFO/cow but not for the other measures.
- The milk price was slightly higher for the high group for the first four years but not in 1999.
- The low group had a very slight advantage in dollars of cash expense per cow with the middle group being the highest the first four years. This measurement comparison raises some very serious questions about the fairly common belief among many graziers that the "secret to economic success" via grazing is to control operating costs. Among this group of graziers over a five year period, the difference in operating cost per cow represents a much smaller part of the difference in profitability than is represented by income generation and investment control. A closer look at individual cost components shows that a higher percentage of cash (operating) cost as well as income is spent on interest in the low group.
- The low group had a few more cows than the higher group in four out of five years.
- In most of the above comparisons, the middle group was in the middle. The three exceptions occurred in cash expense per cow in which they were usually higher than the other two groups, debt per cow in which their five year average is close to the five year average of the low group and pounds of milk sold per cow in which they were roughly equal to the higher group until 1999. In 1999 they were far below the top group and slightly below the low group in pounds of milk sold per cow.
General Conclusions Drawn From The Wisconsin Dairy Grazing Profitability Analysis;
- Management intensive rotational grazing (MIRG) is economically competitive, probably at all sizes. In contrast to large modern confinement systems, grazing systems can provide a family with a satisfactory amount of dollars for family living with the size of operation that a single family can operate with their own labor and management. All but two or three of the graziers in the study are generating the amount of dollars for family living that would satisfy most farm families. Graziers in the study also compare quite favorably with "conventional" Wisconsin dairy farms in the FFAMIS record keeping system when using a variety of financial measures.
- The MIRG system is more economically flexible than the confinement system. Someone who invests in a well planned grazing operation will likely be able to recover most of their investment, if a few years later they decide to switch to a confinement system or quit farming entirely. In contrast, if you invest "from scratch" into a new confinement system, and decide to change or quit in a few years, you will be lucky to recover half of what you invested in that confinement system.
- MIRG is a system in which a significant amount of the forage consumed by the cows is harvested by the cows to reduce harvesting costs and enhance forage quality. This is the major difference between grazing farms in this study versus many "confinement" or "conventional" farms in Wisconsin.
- MIRG can be done with or without other practices and technologies such as seasonal calving, milking parlors, TMRS, etc. Fully seasonal is shutting down milking facilities at least one day each year (hopefully much more than a day to make it worth the effort to be seasonal.)
- MIRG is not a reduced management system; it's a different management system.
- Making the right investment decisions always enhances profitability. Still, a number of graziers have transitioned from "conventional" systems quickly and successfully. A "traditional small Wisconsin dairy farm" with average or better management has a good chance of improving financial performance by judicious adoption of a MIRG system. Many graziers are showing that some of the old infrastructure (barns, silos, etc.) that may be considered obsolete by "large modern confinement standards" can be valuable tools in a MIRG system if acquired at "discounted" prices.
- Although many graziers are financially competitive at production levels that are lower than often found in other systems, they may be even more competitive if they don't sacrifice production because cost and investment savings aren't automatically created when production is reduced. Herds transitioning from another system may not be able to afford much of a production decline.
- The graziers which are most successful financially are those who focus on optimizing the three factors of profit, more than worrying about whether or not they fit a specific stereotype or system. The three factors of profit are, income generation, operating expense control and investment control.
- Wisconsin graziers tend to emphasize operating cost and investment control out of proportion with income generation just as traditional Wisconsin dairy farms tend to emphasize income generation out of proportion with operating cost and investment control. Either tendency can be just a different road to the same dismal place. Spending money carefully helps profitability more than just not spending.
- The graziers with the best financial performance had just slightly higher operating expenses per cow, more investment per cow and much more income per cow, than the low group. The ability to generate income is the main factor separating the top group of graziers from the bottom group in the study.
- Low input is not the same as low cost per unit of output. The graziers with the lowest cost per cwt. of milk sold, use large quantities of inputs such as fertilizer and grain as long as the income they generate from those inputs is greater than their cost.
- Graziers in the study who are fully seasonal, or who don't use DHI have had, (over a five year period), less desirable financial performance than their opposites, whether NFIFO/acre, NFIFO/cow, NFIFO/cwt. equivalent of milk sold, NFIFO/farm, or ROROA is used as the yardstick. To have the same number of dollars available for family living, the herds that practiced seasonal calving needed twice as many cows as needed by the non-seasonal graziers but about the same number of cows required by the traditional confinement herds which the graziers are compared to.
- There is no single measurement that tells enough about a business to make good important comparisons or decisions without additional information from other measures. Several measures are needed to accurately judge the financial performance of any business, but under Wisconsin conditions, dividing by cows is usually more useful than dividing by acres.
I am very grateful to the Wisconsin graziers who are participating in the study survey, and to Wisconsin County Extension Agricultural Agents, the Soil Conservation Service, and Grazier Networks for all of their help in providing data. I also thank my U.W. Center for Dairy Profitability Coworkers Arlin Brannstrom, Gary Frank, and Jenny Vanderlin for their help in providing the conventional farm data, and Larry Baumann, Sandy Costello, Rick Klemme, Lee Milligan, Stan Schraufnagel, Terry Smith and Michelle Weighart for initiating the study.


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By Bill Gallagher
DETROIT — A storm of anti-war protests and sentiment is sweeping across the nation. Finally, reality and truth are trumping President George W. Bush's lies. Even the perpetual propaganda machine of the corporate media can no longer manufacture consent for Bush's monstrously bad policies and decisions.
A storm of anti-war protests and sentiment is sweeping While most Americans work and struggle with lower wages, a sputtering economy and rising gas prices, Bush still basks in the Texas sun in his long summer of content. He prefers isolation and deliberate disconnection from the grim evidence of his wholesale failures.
Cindy Sheehan has left the vigil outside Bush's ranch to care for her ailing mother. But others are in her place, reminding the world that Bush will never admit his responsibility for the war in Iraq, its failure and the death of Sheehan's son Casey and more than 1,800 other Americans.
The Busheviks consider Sheehan's witness to the tragedy of the senseless war as an irritant, a PR problem that will fade in time. They've used the usual suspects of right-wing indecency — Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity — to do their dirty work. Those who question the war must be silenced at best, or at least discredited and vilified.
The war in Iraq is unwinnable and futile. We can never undo Bush's madness in starting the war and his sheer incompetence in not planning for its aftermath. Nor can we stop the insurgency, the spawning of more terrorists and the instability U.S. military presence has created simply by "staying the course." No matter how and when we exit Iraq, more chaos and bloodshed will follow. The country will fragment and Bush's insane experiment in nation-building will prove a catastrophic failure.
The reasonable move now is to cut our losses, save lives and get the hell out of Iraq in a hurry. Polls show nearly 60 percent of the American people now oppose the war and 63 percent want the troops home by next year.
Bush and his war council will never admit error or acknowledge miscalculations. They will continue to send Americans and Iraqis to their deaths as they desperately try to cobble together a political cover plan they'll camouflage as a successful military mission.
Since no one named Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld or Rove will die in Iraq, they figure they can continue the carnage until about this time next summer, when they'll shift the focus to Iran just in time for the mid-term elections.
Bogged down in Iraq? Just create a new war with a new enemy and our "war president" will use the occasion to keep the GOP in control of both houses of Congress.
Iran, a charter member of the "axis of evil," is perfect for the enemy role. Iran is seeking to develop nuclear materials for power plants, which could conceivably be used for weapons. The Europeans are working diligently to forge a diplomatic solution and get Iran to accept international inspections.
But Bush deplores diplomacy, preferring bullying rhetoric and the threat of force. He horrified the Europeans in his recent remarks about Iran, declaring "all options are on the table" and saying that "we've used force in the recent past to secure our country." Bush's reckless rhetoric damages any hope that moderate Iranians will have any influence at all.
But Karl Rove wants a new war to bolster Republican fortunes. The president's "brain" would like to concentrate on the next election, but Rove's spending much of his time trying to avoid federal prison.
If there is any justice left in our nation, Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, will soon be indicted on felony charges for their roles in leaking the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame.
These scum should be charged with treason, but my best guess is that they will face counts of obstruction of justice and lying to FBI agents. The trial will expose the pervasive corruption and ruthlessness of the Bush-Cheney gang, and spur talk of impeachment.
Sworn testimony will show the Busheviks would do anything to protect the lies that led to the war in Iraq. We can only hope the grand jury will look deeply at the motives for outing Valerie Plame and the central roles Bush and Cheney played in the scheme. They should be named as unindicted co-conspirators.
Two prominent figures in the scandal merit far more public attention than they have received so far. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former attorney general John Ashcroft played critical roles in the despicable plot, and the grand jury ought to be reviewing all their actions.
Ashcroft took a deep personal interest in the investigation of Rove, his friend and one-time campaign consultant when he was a senator from Missouri.
Murray Waas in the Village Voice details how Ashcroft at first refused to recuse himself from the case involving a friend, a clear conflict of interest, and how troubling that was to professionals in the Justice Department. Then Ashcroft ordered the FBI to brief him on an interview the agents had with Rove.
Waas reports investigators told Ashcroft they believed Rove "withheld important information from them during that FBI interview." That's dynamite stuff. A former senior Justice Department official told Waas, "It would have been a nightmare scenario if Ashcroft let something slip to an aide or someone else they had in common with Rove … and then word got back to Rove or the White House what investigators were saying about him."
Ashcroft waited five months before he finally recused himself from the Rove investigation and the White House has never explained what led to his abrupt departure.
Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, has long argued there has been the "appearance of impropriety" in Ashcroft's handling of the investigation. Conyers wants a Justice Department investigation.
"The new information that Ashcroft had not only refused to recuse himself over a period of months, but also was insisting on being personally briefed about a matter implicating his friend, Karl Rove, represents a stunning ethical breach that cries out for an immediate investigation by the department's Office of Professional Responsibility and Inspector General," Conyers urged.
While Ashcroft may have been involved in the cover-up, Condoleezza Rice's fingerprints are all over the plot to out Valerie Plame to punish her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who exposed the hoax that Saddam Hussein was purchasing enriched uranium from Niger.
Roger Morris, a former National Security Council senior staff member, has done a masterful job of exposing Rice's treachery in a report in "Counterpunch" magazine. Morris argues Rice's "pivotal role" in the scandal has been "missed entirely or deliberately" as the media frenzy focuses on Rove and Libby.
Morris provides an intricate timeline, detailing the events and showing Rice's involvement.
"Rice, by both commission and omission, was integral in perpetrating the original fraud of Niger and then inevitably in the vengeful betrayal of Plame's identity. None of that spilling of secrets for crass political retribution could have gone on without her knowledge and approval, and thus complicity," Morris writes.
"Little of it could have happened without her participation, if not as a leaker herself, at least with her direction and with her scripting," Morris writes.
Rice's glib one-liner, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud," scared the hell out of people and became a major propaganda lie in the march to war. Joe Wilson's expose exposed Rice as a liar.
When the time came to attempt to discredit Wilson for speaking the truth, Rice was ready. "And when that moment comes, she has the unique authority, and is in a position, to do the deed. Motive, means, opportunity — in the classic terms of prosecution, Rice had them all," Morris writes.
Rice's lies were vital in taking our nation to war, resulting in the death of Casey Sheehan and, tragically, countless more to come. A recent "Time" magazine article is entitled "Can Condi Rice Save Iraq?" The quick answer is no, but you wouldn't know that reading the nauseating, puff-piece profile of the secretary of state. We learn about her exercise schedule, hairdos named for her, her refusal to e-mail because it's impersonal, and what a wonderful intellect and perfectionists she is.
We're informed that Rice's most appealing qualities are "her optimism and belief in the power of America ideals." Not a word about the Plame affair and Rice's role.
Rice held an interview last week for reporters and an editor of The New York Times. Again, no mention of her collusion in peddling Plame's identity.
Will Rice continue to dodge scrutiny?
Rice is a professional sycophant and her public service has been disastrous, but she's usually given a free pass or promotion, no matter how badly she screws up. Roger Morris explains why.
"Her manifest failures in the fateful months before 9/11 in meeting the principal responsibilities of the National Security Adviser — the sheer incompetence and shallowness that left so much intelligence uncoordinated, so much neglected or misunderstood — should have been enough to have her run from public office long ago, of course, were it not for her hold on this tragically flawed president, and her deplorable immunity amid the chronic political cowardice of both Democrats and the media," according to Morris.
With a record of failure, incompetence and treachery, what are Condi Rice's future prospects? Why, of course, the Republicans want her to become president.
Bill Gallagher, a Peabody Award winner, is a former Niagara Falls city councilman who now covers Detroit for Fox2 News. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Been continuously walking around the house just to keep the circulation going. I'm keeping in mind what everyone has stated, "take it easy". So, I'm resting alot.....which is good for me physically - but mentally, I wish I could do more. I guess, "physical" wins!
First post-op appt is 2/1.....I will hopefully be able to say, "bye", to my catheter.
Gleeson: 3+3 = 6
Diagnosed: Oct 2007
RALP surgery: Jan: 2008 (Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia)
47 at Diagnosis.
Father died of Pca 4/07 at 86.
1/07 PSA 4.6 (Biopsy 3/07 just suspicious)
10/07 PSA 5.06 (Biopsy 11/07 1 of 12 with 8% involvment) (1mm)
Da Vinci surgery Jan 5, '08 at Mt. Sinai Hosp. NYC www.roboticoncology.com
Saved both nerve bundles.
Path Report: Stage 2cNxMx
-Gleason (3+3)6
-totally contained to prostate,
-10% involvement in L & R Mid lobes
PSA: First ever was 9.8 in late Oct. '06, two weeks later, 10.1
DRE: Negative
Biopsy results 11/22/06. Both lobes involved. Six out of eight cores positive - from 100 percent to 90, to 60, to 50, two 20s and two zeros.
Gleason 3+3 = 6
Da Vinci Robotic RP surgery, City of Hope, Jan 12, 2007
Post surgery pathology – Organ confined, Gleason still 6, margins clear. Volume of tumor much less than biopsy suggested. 12 percent overall.
First post-surgery PSA -- Undetectable, 2/20/07
Second post-surgery PSA -- Undetectable, 9/11/07
1 of 12 biopsy cores positive Open RP 6/21/06 Gleason 5
Cancer confined to prostate Post-op PSA's non-detectable
Pre-op PSA was 19.8
Surgery on Feb 16, 2007
Post-Op Pathology was poor: Gleason 4+3=7, 4 positive margins, Stage pT3b (Stage III)
HT began in May, '07 with Lupron and Casodex 50mg
IMRT radiation for 38 Treatments ending August 3, '07
My PSA did drop out after surgery to undetectable. It has not returned and I will continue HT until January '08.
My Life is supported very well by family and friends like you all.
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RRP 12/7/06. Nerves and nodes okay.
Catheter out on 12/13/06. Dry on 12/14/06.
Pathological stage: T2C N0 MX. Gleason 3+4.
PSAs from 1/3/07 - 1/17/08 0.00.
Next PSA test on 7/17/08
"Patience is essential, attitude is everything."
Age 49, PSA 6.22 on 9-26-06
Biopsy 11-01-06, 2 of 13 cores 10% cancer, 2 other cores abnormal Up-dated 20% prostate cancerous
Gleason score 3+3=6 After Pathology report 4+3=7 a couple agressive Grade 5 cells found
Da Vinci surgery 01-09-07 UW Madison
Pathology Report- cancer 100 % capsual contained 1-18-07
Catheter removed 1-18-07 suffered bladder spasms Catheter reattached 1-18-07 Catheter removed 2nd time 1-24-07
1st & 2nd Post PSA Blood Test .1 and less - Undetectable
3nd Post PSA Blood Test 01-17-07 .3-Next action awaits me.
Next PSA Scheduled and meeting with Radiologist set for 3-27-08
Incontenence-Pad free since end of May 07 4 1/2 months post surgery
ED back to 95% prior to surgery - no medication required.


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text: job details posted Friday, 8 November 2019 location singapore specialism sales job type permanent working hours Full-Time salary S$ 2,800 - S$ 3,000 per month reference number 91M0139908_1573180686 contact lauren ang, randstad apply now add to saved jobs email this job print job description about the companyAs a result of ongoing and continued successes both within Singapore and internationally, a global leader is recruiting a Sales Support Specialist to join the team in its next phase of growth.about the job Provide customers service which includes order taking, enquiries, quotation, order entry and coordinate with all other departments to ensure customers' requirements are met and followed up.Attend to customers' complaints and ensure they are properly and efficiently addressed.Collate and present information based on customers' feedback or issues encountered at work to superior for review and rectification. skills & experience requiredTo be successful in this position, you must have the ability to demonstrate or possess:Diploma in Mechanical/EngineeringCandidate with 1-2 years of sales experience will be added advantagehow to applyIf you believe you have the right skillset, experience and drive to succeed, please apply now. Alternatively, please dropped an email to lauren.ang(@)randstad.com.sg or contact me at 6510 3662 for any further discussion.EA: 94C3609 / R1333505 skills no additional skills required qualification no additional qualifications required educational requirements Associate Degree/Diploma share Facebook LinkedIn Twitter


text: Paper Title The Role of Internet Adoption on Trade within Asian Countries Plus People's Republic of China Abstract The Internet stimulates trade. This paper estimates the effect of Internetadoption on trade promoting international trade between ASEAN and People's Republic of China. The article uses five-year cross-section data from 2011 to2015 for the sample-selection.We study the effect of the Internet on trade by using the gravity equation with the Internet.The results show that Internet affects tradepositively. Specifically, our results imply that a 10 percent increase in the Internet users would have led to about 3 percent increase in international trade volume. Index terms - Internet; international trade, gravity model, cross-section data.


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Saturday, January 27, 2007
It's almost here
I must point out that it is almost National Gorilla Suit Day.
Spread the word and do your duty.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
We're back from our trip to Las Vegas, and today is my first day back to work. Consequently, I need some sleep before making with the funny.
Worry not; I'll be back before too long.
Worry not; I'll be back before too long.
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Genre: Mystery
Hardcover; Trade Paperback; Digital Book
Crooked Lane Books
336 Pages
$18.35; $10.99; $9.99 Amazon
May 8, 2018 (TP November 13, 2018)
Bucolic Rumford, Kentucky has glowing fields of bluegrass, a fine selection of bourbons, and now a professional pastry chef. Broken-hearted Sophia Cummings has come home from New York city. She's not there a minute before she's charmed into making her high school friend Charlotte's wedding cake. The kitchen at the Rumford Country Club seems perfect until Chef Emile's body is discovered, sprawled near the stove, a cast iron skillet on the floor close by.
With one look at the shiny, new frying pan, Sophia knows it's not Emile's. She offers her knowledge to Sheriff Carter and her talents to Evelyn, the manager, who needs an interim chef. The mood in the country club is grim: Emile's peppery personality had burned members and staff alike. Sophia wonders which one of them burned him?
Sophia Cummings is a pastry chef at an upscale restaurant in New York. After catching her live-in boyfriend making whoopee with the Maitre'd at their restaurant, she took some time off and went home to visit her mother and father in small-town Rumford, Kentucky.
But rest isn't about to come her way. While at a Junior League meeting at the local country club with her mother, she runs into some old friends, one of whom is about to be married. Charlotte Harrington is beside herself because her baker has bailed on her. But then she practically begs Sophia to make her wedding cakes, and Sophia reluctantly agrees. When she goes the next day to the club to meet Charlotte, Sophia heads to the kitchen to check it out, but instead discovers that the club's chef Emile has already been checked out instead, hit over the head with an iron skillet.
When Sheriff Carter Kincaid arrives, she's summarily questioned and released; and even though she's not happy about having to work in the kitchen, she's even less happy when she finds out that Evelyn Moss, the director of the club, is the main suspect. She refuses to believe that Evelyn, for all her gruff exterior, could kill anyone. So when Evelyn asks her to temporarily help with meals until another chef can be found, she once again agrees, finding her vacation to be a working one, whether she wants it or not.
Just when she thinks her plate can't get any fuller, even more complications arise; and when she's determined to find Emile's killer before Evelyn can be charged with the crime, she discovers that someone out there knows what she's doing, and wants her to stop...even if it means that they'll have to stop her permanently...
This is the first in a new series and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. It takes place in a small town in Kentucky, but that's where the similarity to many cozy mysteries end. There were no 'tried and true' clichés throughout the book: our protagonist didn't run home broke and out of a job, she merely took a leave of absence and has money in the bank; she didn't decide to start a business she couldn't afford and then struggle and hope she can eat the next month. She actually wears makeup; she doesn't just 'throw on a little lip gloss' and have everyone tell her that she's hot (not that there's anything wrong with that); and I loved the fact there was no 'evil nemesis' out to destroy Sophia and her life, nor the dreadful love triangle that permeates so many of them (rant over!).
What I didn't like: she was a little invasive on people during her 'investigating', sometimes saying and doing things that weren't exactly danger-free, not even trying to hid the fact of what she was doing (however, it did show that she knew she wasn't very good at being a sleuth, which she also admits to herself) so it was to be expected that the killer would figure out sooner rather than later what she was doing. (Example: when she went investigating Patrick). She also writes out a 'suspect list' and isn't above practically bald-faced accusing people, which isn't smart and could very well alienate some from her forever.
However, she was smart enough to share anything she discovered with Carter instead of keeping information to herself, and I did like that. It showed that her only goal was truly helping Evelyn, and not some misguided idea that she was better than the sheriff was at his job. An intelligent move on the part of the author.
I found the mystery to be well thought out; the dialogue was witty and fun; the characters felt real as well as the friendship between Sophia, Charlotte and Madison; Sophia's mother Bitsy definitely ruled her little town, and even though Bitsy seems a bit manipulative, I never got the feeling that she was pushy or that Sophia minded one bit. I actually like Bitsy as much as the rest of the characters.
When the ending comes and the killer is revealed, the reason made perfect sense, and the fact that the murderer had thought out how to frame someone else actually added to the plot because they weren't sloppy, which made it more difficult to detect who they were, and that was an added bonus. I will say that while I had my suspicions, I liked the fact that the clues never directly pointed toward that person.
All in all, this was a delightful beginning to a new series, and it held my interest throughout. I think I could easily become attached to the characters in this book and look forward to the next in the series, hoping to spend time with them again. There are also some yummy-sounding recipes at the end that I will definitely be making. Highly recommended.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2673812368
More on Maymee Bell's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/maymee-bell/


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Misunder- estimated and Overunder- appreciated
Those in the satire business have been fed a steady and highly nutritious diet of Bush's stubbornness, lack of curiosity, cockiness, managerial incompetence, blatant corruption, and verbal ineptitude.
Misunderestimated and OverunderappreciatedPublisher: Metro
Subtitle: The George W. Bush Administration as Seen Through the Eyes of the Tribune's Syndicated Editorial Cartoonists
Contributors: Mark Crispin Miller
Length: 328
Formats: Paperback
US publication date: 2007-10
Thanks mostly to his invasion of Iraq in 2003, advocacy of torture, indefinite detention of suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, flagrant flouting of FISA, and botched emergency response to hurricane Katrina, the presidency of George W. Bush has been a disaster for the United States and much of the world. To believe otherwise is to put oneself in that special category of believers in things like Faked Moon Landings and Intelligent Design. It is undoubtedly no coincidence that believers in the latter number amongst Bush's most ardent supporters.
Bush's presidency has not been bad for everyone, though. In addition to oil companies and defense contractors, cartoonists and comedians have benefited greatly from him. Those in the satire business have been fed a steady and highly nutritious diet of Bush's stubbornness, lack of curiosity, cockiness, managerial incompetence, blatant corruption, and verbal ineptitude.
Misunderestimated & Overunderappreciated is a collection of political cartoons taking aim at the 43rd President of the United States of America. The cartoons compiled here are culled from those drawn by the Tribune Company's syndicated cartoonists.
Organized chronologically and grouped by year, media critic Mark Crispin Miller provides an introductory essay for each section, setting the context for the cartoons that follow. Cozy contracts for Halliburton, the outing of CIA spy Valerie Plame, Katrina, the search for WMDs in Iraq, the Libby pardon; it's all here going back to the very beginning with Bush's "selection" by the Supreme Court as President.
Sprinkled next to the cartoons are quotes from The Decider himself; "I think we agree, the past is over." "I don't do nuance." "A free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom." The kinds of quotes that have been cataloged in all those books of Bushisms.
In one cartoon from 2003, David Horsey has a small child struggling to carry an elephant-sized pig with the words "BUSH BUDGET DEFICITS" stamped on it. The child is saying, "B-b-but you said you weren't going to pass on your problems to other generations!" Bush is standing in the corner, replying, "That's before I figured out other generations can't vote in 2004!"
A Doug Marlette cartoon from 2004 shows an oversized Bush head with even larger ears. David Kay (the man who headed the search for Saddam's never found WMDs) is holding a flashlight aimed inside Bush's right ear. A newspaper at Kay's foot displays the headline "BUSH LAUNCHES INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION."
The cartoons display the best that satire has to offer in explaining the political realm. My descriptions cannot do justice to their gifted creators. Pick up the book to see for yourself. It must be noted, however, that all of the cartoonists collected in Misunderestimated & Overunderappreciated are men. Unfortunately, this seems to reflect the dearth of women political cartoonists.
As funny as these cartoons are, reading them all together instead of in dribbles here and there, can render the reader's mode more and more grim as the damage piles up. Best to dip in and out of this book instead of reading it in a handful of sittings. Taken together, these cartoons are an infuriating reminder of Bush's numerous horrific mistakes, mistakes he never acknowledges. Because Bush clearly does not believe he has made any mistakes, being answerable only to His God, who is different god, it seems, from most others'.
Yes, read all the cartoons here and grumble, curse, and laugh. Then, registered Americans, go out and vote for a Democrat in 2008.
I'm sure the foibles of the next President of the United States will provide political cartoonists with plenty of sustenance. My hope is that they are not quite so numerous and nourishing as Bush's have been.


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An opening sketch featured celebrities playing the world leaders who were caught on tape gossiping about President Trump.
By Dave Itzkoff
Chance also did double duty as the musical guest, and several more surprise guests stopped by the rally.
Mr. Baldwin complained that he had been victimized by a company that offered tickets to see the Statue of Liberty.
By Jeffery C. Mays and Derek M. Norman
Woody Harrelson hosted and Alec Baldwin returned as President Trump. But the Gillis controversy was only hinted at. Maybe.
With Mandy Patinkin as a coming-apart dad and Judith Light as a long-lost mom, 'Before You Know It' is a cozily familiar mess.
By Glenn Kenny
Mixing documentary and fictionalized re-enactment, a new film about the mythic automaker tells a quintessentially American story of ambition and greed.
Robert De Niro and Alec Baldwin returned to skewer the Mueller report on "Saturday Night Live," while Sandra Oh hosted.
One of New York's leading art dealers, convicted of tax evasion, will report to prison in May. She's already plotting her return.
By Jacob Bernstein
Wounded by a "Saturday Night Live" spoof, President Trump reacts with part heavy-handed threat, part celebrity ego.
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She begged for leniency but the judge ordered that she spend 30 months in federal prison.
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In early public comments this morning, Pope Francis highlighted immigration and climate change in public comments with President Obama, emphasizing building bridges and bringing a message of hope. In private meetings in the White House this morning, however, the papal delegation is additionally expected to deliver an economic message specifically targeting "vulture hedge funds" and the credit situation on the island of Puerto Rico, ValueWalk has learned.
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THE second annual Amelie Poll Dorset Ram Sale topped at $1200 on property near Uralla on Friday.
Of the 24 rams offered by the Sharpe family, 14 sold to average $754.
Stud principal Brendan Sharpe was pleased with the local turn out and support and in recognition of the tough seasonal conditions offered buyers 25 per cent off their second ram purchase.
"We know it's tough and we wanted to offer some financial assistance to our clients," Mr Sharpe said.
Linda Waters and Chris Dunne, The Range, Enmore, secured the $1200 ram after a 45-minute battle via Helsman auction.
The 2017-drop sire weighed 102 kilograms and measured 38.5 centimetres in the scrotum, 26 millmetres for eye muscle depth and two millimetres for fat.
It was the ram's length and squareness that drew Ms Waters and Mr Dunne to purchase the sire for their prime lamb operation.
"He will go over first cross ewes of which we join around 400 ewes annually," Mr Dunne said.
"We sell the lambs either through the local saleyards or direct to Thomas Food International at Tamworth."
Cameron Wood, Dog Trap, Uralla, secured his 11th Amelie Poll Dorest ram from the sale, paying $900 for a 104 kilogram 2017-drop ram.
"They are beautiful meat sheep," he said.
"Their 100-day growth is exceptional. We sell lambs as stores and they get there quicker."
The Wood family join around 700 second cross ewes and 2000 first cross ewes annually with the lambs usually secured direct by Victorian meat buyers each year.
"We were selecting on size, not too big in the shoulder for lambing ease, good length and not overly big in the back-end as some lambs can get caught on the hip with our moderate New England females," Mr Wood said.
According to stud principal Brendan Sharpe, the Amelie Poll Dorset philosophy was to achieve moderate size rams that were moderate to fast maturing types and not overfed.
"We use pure Poll Dorset genetics and use Lambplan as a selection tool," he said.
"The philosophy of having moderate sheep is that they will perform in dry tough conditions."
The sale was conducted by Schute Bell Badgery Lumby with Graham Andrews controlling the board.


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Barbara Robinson's popular and heartwarming story has charmed audiences for years, and now it's even better -- with songs and music that help tell the story and fill our hearts with joy!
The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world–so when they crash Sunday school and demand parts in the Christmas pageant, the whole town panics. There's not supposed to be biting or cigar-smoking in Bethlehem, and while these kids have never even heard the Christmas story, they definitely have rewrites! Soon everyone is calling for reluctant director Grace Bradley to cancel the whole thing. It's up to Bradley and the Reverend to help their community see the Christmas story and the Herdman kids through new eyes in this buoyant musical adaptation of the funny and touching holiday classic.
Based on the book of the same name, this show is great for families and audiences of all ages.
Performances are November 29 through December 15, with Friday/Saturday shows at 8pm, and Sunday shows at 2pm. Tickets are $20 for adults, $17 for students, seniors, and military, and $10 for kids 12 and under.
To purchase tickets, contact our box office from Tuesday-Saturday, 2-6pm at 360.322.7402, or purchase online at Brown Paper Tickets.
This quick change, cross-dressing version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is set in a Victorian music hall. The Royal Music Hall Twenty-Member Variety Players are beset with a widespread case of food poisoning, leaving only three able-bodied members to carry on with the planned production of the Dickens classic.
The undaunted trio gamely face missed cues, ill-fitting costumes, and having no one to play Tiny Tim. "Scrooge in Rouge" abounds in bad puns, naughty double-entendres, and witty songs. A raucous holiday treat... and a palate-cleanser for all those suffering from too much holiday saccharine. Rated R.
Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Three very talented actors and singers bring this bawdy holiday tale to life at Red Curtain. Dorothy Rosenthal Pierce, Christopher Puckett, and Drew Winston star in the zany, laugh-a-minute spoof. Directed by Scott B Randall.


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Fed-up homeowners will be given the chance to quiz city officials over their plans for a traffic trouble spot.
Kingston Park is plagued by congestion and poor traffic provisions. People in the area have demanded Newcastle Council tackle the problem as the area's retail park continues to grow.
Last December, homeowners were furious when plans to open a 8,000 sq ft Marks and Spencer food hall got the go-ahead.
City planners and traffic experts are to hold a drop-in session at St John's Church, Brunton Lane, Gosforth, from 3pm until 8pm on Monday.
Alison Hall, who runs Kingston Park Community Association, said: "The meeting will just look at traffic problems at the bottom of the estate. They are still not considering the cause of the problem, which is the retail estate."