Read the piece here but the summery is this years crops are getting their asses kicked – and cattle ranches are going to need to trim herds to make ends meet. Make like Snooki and enjoy a good meal now, because beef prices will go up and stay high for a while.
Texas is the largest producer of cattle with about a 20% market share. If the ranchers there start cutting herds we’re going to feel it.
This old woodscraft book is full of basic information that most people would know – unless you’ve grown up in the last 50 years in a city. It covers everything from useful knots to sharpening an ax to reading a map. Basically it’s a lot of what you would have learned in the Boyscouts if they hadn’t gone soft and stopped taking kids into the woods. A lot of you preppers out there are thinking about doing some woodsrunning after SHTF even though you’ve never been in the woods longer than a weekend so you’d better start learning some basic skills: