Anxieties are rising.

Welcome to rising anxieties.

This is the podcast where we try to unpack exactly what it is that animal ag is worried about right now.

And unfortunately, we also have to cover more and more these days, a bit of what

is worrying us about them because there's a lot. You know, I have to say, though, I'm not well

known for hope. And I don't know why I would feel it right now, but I just feel like they are reaching their limit or getting closer to their limit.

I just feel like things could turn.

I just feel like there's a sense of after years of basic inertia.

Well, anyway, I'll get into details now.

I won't pontificate anymore. Okay, our first article is the thing that the, you know, I'm recording this on Monday and I don't know whether the big, beautiful bill, as they call it, though it's a monstrosity, has passed. But you will be hearing this on Tuesday, so you will know.

And regardless, I think this is an important factor.

This is from Drovers.

Beef producers urge Congress to vote yes on big, beautiful bill to deliver tax relief.

And this is, I think there's probably a lot of stuff in there that is benefiting animal ag.

But this is probably the really big one, this story, which is by Angie Stubbenton.

Beef producers are urging Congress to vote yes on big, beautiful bill, to deliver tax relief

and help farmers and ranchers stay in business for generations to come.

Yeah, what they want to do is build dynasties and they

have you know done pretty well with that to date and you know i remember when estate taxes used to be

something that ordinary people worried about but you know once millionaires started worrying about them

the numbers became so big that the rest of us,

like it's not even an issue. But it wasn't really that long ago that estate taxes were a thing,

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