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I lived in TX for a short time. The beef in the grocery stores I was able to shop locally was the worst I have ever had. There are good steaks in the good restaurants though. I went and toured the King Ranch. It was big. They said it took 40 acres per cow/ calf. Cactus and scrub brush with no grass is not going to make prime beef at 100 degrees. There is a lot of land to raise cattle on but the parts I have seen would not lead me to believe that it was great land for raising fat beef on. they have large pastures they plant, I've done a lot of work on there over the yrs.
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they also do burns to get the good grass growing.
God bless Texas-----------------------
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Its not how you pick the booger..
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Roger V Hunter
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I hear you can get macadamia nuts in Texas. Pineapples and Japanese oranges too. Too bad there's no good beef. lol
Personally if I was going to buy a side of beef I'd be happy with an old long horn. Or snap one up from Conrad or Sam early fall off their range. The way things have gone the taste of beef now is all about their last 100 days crammed into a feed lot not moving hardly and eating tons and tons of grain or other fattener. Not natural but its what we've become used to.
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My farm neighbor has about 15-18 Charolais on less than 60 acres. And theyre NOT up to the knees in mud and shît like I seen on here of Iowa “prime beef” cattle. He even still has some green grass growing. Only bare spots he has are around his hay rings. 40 acres per cow, dang ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/CxMY3qH6/95-D9-D322-AF69-4462-9597-1-A67-DB12-D50-C.jpg)
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My farm neighbor has about 15-18 Charolais on less than 60 acres. And theyre NOT up to the knees in mud and shît like I seen on here of Iowa “prime beef” cattle. He even still has some green grass growing. Only bare spots he has are around his hay rings. 40 acres per cow, dang There ya go see what he wants for one on the hoof. But wait a while to butcher the Henchmans got every critter around there run to complete exhaustion, tongues hangin out all full of adrenaline 😆😆
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My farm neighbor has about 15-18 Charolais on less than 60 acres. And theyre NOT up to the knees in mud and shît like I seen on here of Iowa “prime beef” cattle. He even still has some green grass growing. Only bare spots he has are around his hay rings. 40 acres per cow, dang. Have you eaten any Charolais beef...?
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Not that I know of.
McDonalds doesn’t say “pure all beef Charolais” 🤨
Most everything around here is Angus or polled Herefords
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My farm neighbor has about 15-18 Charolais on less than 60 acres. And theyre NOT up to the knees in mud and shît like I seen on here of Iowa “prime beef” cattle. He even still has some green grass growing. Only bare spots he has are around his hay rings. 40 acres per cow, dang king ranch is over 800,000 acres.
God bless Texas-----------------------
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I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
Roger V Hunter
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My farm neighbor has about 15-18 Charolais on less than 60 acres. And theyre NOT up to the knees in mud and shît like I seen on here of Iowa “prime beef” cattle. He even still has some green grass growing. Only bare spots he has are around his hay rings. 40 acres per cow, dang There ya go see what he wants for one on the hoof. But wait a while to butcher the Henchmans got every critter around there run to complete exhaustion, tongues hangin out all full of adrenaline 😆😆 By the way, this guy’s son is the person that is shîtbirding corn piles along the fence.
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My farm neighbor has about 15-18 Charolais on less than 60 acres. And theyre NOT up to the knees in mud and shît like I seen on here of Iowa “prime beef” cattle. He even still has some green grass growing. Only bare spots he has are around his hay rings. 40 acres per cow, dang. Have you eaten any Charolais beef...? Not that I know of. McDonalds doesn’t say “pure all beef Charolais” 🤨
Most everything around here is Angus or polled Herefords I’ve eaten it from east Texas, and I’ve eaten it from the Texas gulf coast. In both cases, it was damn good.
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My farm neighbor has about 15-18 Charolais on less than 60 acres. And theyre NOT up to the knees in mud and shît like I seen on here of Iowa “prime beef” cattle. He even still has some green grass growing. Only bare spots he has are around his hay rings. 40 acres per cow, dang king ranch is over 800,000 acres. So it takes 40 acres to sustain each bovine on King? Someone brought that ratio up early. Suppose it all comes down to rainfall. We get about 50 inches here. Stays green except maybe one month late Jan-Feb then green up comes on strong.
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My farm neighbor has about 15-18 Charolais on less than 60 acres. And theyre NOT up to the knees in mud and shît like I seen on here of Iowa “prime beef” cattle. He even still has some green grass growing. Only bare spots he has are around his hay rings. 40 acres per cow, dang. Have you eaten any Charolais beef...? Not that I know of. McDonalds doesn’t say “pure all beef Charolais” 🤨
Most everything around here is Angus or polled Herefords I’ve eaten it from east Texas, and I’ve eaten it from the Texas gulf coast. In both cases, it was damn good. I had a Gelbvieh processed. A 4-H kid babied it. Man it was excellent.
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Like everything else in Texas, it sucks balls. There is absolutely no reason for anyone from Iowa or anywhere else north of Oklahoma to EVER set foot in Texas. Stay home and avoid the disappointment. I couldn’t agree more. No reason for Yankees and Californians to ever come to TX.
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I had a Gelbvieh processed. A 4-H kid babied it.
Man it was excellent. Tennessee Kobe’.
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Well, we seem to have settled that, "There Are Cows in Texas". 
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I lived in TX for a short time. The beef in the grocery stores I was able to shop locally was the worst I have ever had. There are good steaks in the good restaurants though. I went and toured the King Ranch. It was big. They said it took 40 acres per cow/ calf. Cactus and scrub brush with no grass is not going to make prime beef at 100 degrees. There is a lot of land to raise cattle on but the parts I have seen would not lead me to believe that it was great land for raising fat beef on. The King Ranch isn't the only ranch in Texas. You didn't get around much if you never saw any greener pastures.
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It would be one acre per cow/calf unit in East Texas.
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If I remember correctly, it was multiple cows per acre in southern Louisiana when I visited my brother in Baton Rouge between college and career.
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Texas proudly serves Nolan Ryan beef
I got banned on another web site for a debate that happened on this site. That's a first
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Been buying longhorns from my neighbor. Tastes like beef to me. Not quite as lean as deer.
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