Category: Agriculture

There is quite a series of articles today in the Gazette about wheat farming in Montana that is interesting.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/state/25-farm-profits.inc">Higher costs, lower prices dry up farm profits</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/state/50-grain-harvest.inc">Grain harvest a bitter pill as cost of production rises</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/business/26-grain.inc">Competition squeezes Montana's grain growers</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/business/27-wheat.inc">Crop yields partly make up…

Yes Virginia, <a href="http://www.eitb24.com/noticia_en.php?id=74484">sheep are very stupid</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.<br />n<br />nIn the end, 450 dead animals lay on top…

I have talked before about being opposed to the Coal Bed Methane (CBM) development that is proposed in my area of the state. There has always been one thing that has made me real uneasy about opposing such development and has kept me from being more vocal about the issue. By opposing CBM development I…

We in this area have been in a persistent drought for many years now and the outlook for breaking it is <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/25/build/state/80-drought-forecast.inc" target="_new">grim</a>. Now California has been having the opposite problem lately with storm after storm flooding them out. <br />n<br />n<img width='110' height='73' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/mudcow.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt='' />I run across a story…

<blockquote>Today, thousands of independent U.S. cattle producers who are members of R-CALF USA expressed their heartfelt gratitude to a bipartisan group of nine U.S. senators who courageously stepped forward this afternoon to file a Joint Resolution of Disapproval to the Final Rule issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of…

I sometimes wonder if the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php" target="_new">Billings Gazette</a> tries to time their stories so that they run on the same day. I was struck by this fact when I read the article about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/06/build/state/50-seed-liability.inc" target="_new">wheat seed liability</a> and organic farming in the state section and then down in the business section there is…

Two quick little things. I heard the Super Bowl was on TV tomorrow. Didn't the Red Sox just recently win that?<br />n<br />nOh are the farmers going to scream bloody murder if their <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/05/build/nation/30-farm-subsidies.inc" target="_new">farm subsidies</a> are cut. I don't see this provision getting through the Senate which has a lot of Ag interests…

I see they are changing the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/01/03/build/state/53-wolves.inc" target="_new">rules for wolves</a> in Montana and Idaho. I really don't see that the change is going to do much for ranchers but it is a start as long as some asshole doesn't go blazing away and shooting everything in site and wreck the whole thing. Remember, a…