Somehow I missed National Egg Day yesterday. But Governor Kristi Noem didn’t:
“South Dakota farmers produce 700 million eggs a year,” and we abort every one of them. Sigh.
Governor Noem actually rounded down: the most recent figures from the USDA show South Dakota laying 785 million eggs in 2017. That figure would surely rise in this year’s count if the USDA counted all the policy eggs Kristi is laying.
SD egg production is expected to take a nose dive next year as the SD legislature passes legislation to imprison all offending chickens who eggs did not lead to the birth of a healthy chick. No roosters were inconvenienced by this legislation.
National Cheese Day is today. Just a moment to encourage SD’s artisanal cheese producers. Dimrock, Valley Side and others in the planning stages. My time in Vermont and my year at Big Stone (Saputo) solidified my resolve that South Dakota milk is of superior quality and butterfat content to produce world class cheeses on the same level as Vermont, Oregon, Wisconsin, and California. That so much tax payer money is thrown at Sioux River polluting, low level mozzarella for low level take out pizza is truly a shame. So many unexplored opportunities are present in South Dakota.
Just for fun, yesterday was the umpteenth anniversary of the day Billy Joe MacAllister threw hisself off Tallahatchie Bridge because future Dukes of Hazzrd Sheriff Roscoe P Coltrane buggered him while ministering to Billy Joe.
Egg prices the past couple years have been more volatile than oil prices and there really is no reason for this except greed.