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Senator Harry Reid & Allies Attempt to Expand Wild Horse Sale Authority Part Three |
Betty Retzer and "Spirit" on the State Capitol grounds
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S.1273 discourages the little guy from acquiring a small number of horses and selling them for a profit, but it is crafted to hand easy profits to larger operators who have the resources to pasture horses for a year and fatten them up for sale. Plus, Reid's bill makes the younger, fleshier horses available and those are the ones that bring higher prices at the slaughterhouses.
With the current BSE (mad cow disease) scare and the resulting concerns both domestic and foreign as to how effectively (or ineffectively) the USDA has responded to the most recent infected cow, beef prices may go down, horsemeat prices may continue to climb and it may be more profitable in some regions to produce meat from horses than it would be from beef cattle. Here is a reasonable hypothetical example of how a large livestock operator can make easy money under Senator Reid's proposed legislation. For this hypothesis, our rancher is located in Texas or Oklahoma, relatively close to the BLM long term holding facilities and where pasture is plentiful.
Even for operators in less advantageous regions where profits may only be one half of our hypothetical example, an efficient rancher could still reap over $ 150,000.00 for watching a bunch of horses eat grass for a year, then sell them to the meat packers.
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