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  • From: "Bob, Kathleen, & Kory Brocious" <bbrocious AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] The cost of steel
  • Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:30:02 -0400

Farm folk,
I just priced hog panels at Southern States and Tractor Supply. I expected to see a price some where around $16. Southern States was $27! When I asked they said it was due to higher prices for steel. TS still has them for $16. Heads up.
Bob Brocious
Tenacity Farm, Kentucky


From: Roger Weeks <rjweeks70 AT comcast.net>
Reply-To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Market-farming] The cost of steel
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:33:20 -0700

I was listening to NPR a few weeks ago on my way to an evening farmer's market, and they were talking with someone from a US steel company - don't remember which - and the topic was the rising price of steel.

Basically it boiled down to this: China used to send all of their steel to the US and European markets. US and European steel makers went out of business because they couldn't compete with cheap Chinese steel.

Now China has cut their exports dramatically, because they need the steel in-country.

Likewise, they are importing more oil than ever, and that is pinching the world oil supply.

Don't buy anything made in China. :/

Roger
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Bob, Kathleen, and Kory Brocious
Tenacity Farm
Campbellsburg, Kentucky

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