Category: Agriculture

I had read <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2004/08/13/build/state/68-beef-suit.inc">this</a> story in the local paper but for the life of me couldn't figure out how citizens of a foreign country could sue the US government. I found <a href="http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=79f8d3cc-090c-4317-bc6b-5ee0c5729128">this</a> article that explains a little about how they are trying to do it.<br />n<br />n<i>Chapter 11 allows individuals to claim damages…

<i>Farmers have been committing suicide for the past three years in despair at crop failure, drought and growing indebtedness.<br />n<br />n Their plight has been worsened by the lack of rain this year and officials say the situation could get worse.</i><br />n<br />nI know conditions are getting bad, but I never imagined. The thing is…

Yea, now we got it. The farmers and ranchers of this state are rolling in the dough and can afford new taxes. Let's forget the fact that the drought has been forcing many of them towards insolvency. They obviously have money to burn so let's tax them more. Debt? They don't have any of that…

I have noticed more stories in the news lately about, what I would term, speculations on what might happen if a certain thing were to happen. The headlines usually never report it this way, they are always more terrifying bent.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/06/26/build/health/30-disease.inc">New disease threat carried by mosquitoes</a><br />n<br />nThis just sounds ominous. Reading the…

Free markets at there best. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/06/18/build/state/48-schweitzer.inc">Democratic Brian Schweitzer would require that all fuel sold in Montana contain 10 percent ethanol</a>. Hold it, that word require in there is a little troublesome. I guess that means it might not be a free market idea. Oh, I understand now, this is a proposal for the government…

I hate to say this. CBM industry isn't then only one that is afraid of <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/06/07/build/wyoming/35-cbm-industry.inc">this</a>. Any time the Feds do something that can affect my private property I am concerned. But, it hasn't happened yet so there still is a chance. <br />n<br />n<b>Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter…

I've said something for years about modern agriculture. If you aren't getting bigger, you're dying. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/06/04/build/nation/35-farms.inc">This story</a> just proves it. Today, in modern agriculture, the big guy has all the advantages of efficiency and its a lot easier for them to make money than the small guys. With the present drought, and difficulties associated…

What do these guys want?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/05/14/build/state/40-drought-aid.inc">Ranchers to seek D.C. drought aid</a><br />n<br />nThe headline says they want aid, but you read the article I don't see what aid they are looking for.<br />n<br />n<i>Now they want the federal government to come and listen to them.<br />n<br />nAs a special drought meeting wrapped up…

This <a href="http://www.agweb.com/news_show_news_article.asp?file=AgNewsArticle_20045101559_5712&articleid=108311&newscat=GN">Pasture Conditions</a> report really tells the story of Montana's drought. 55% of Montana's pasture conditions are either in poor or very poor shape. Really sad and getting worse every day.<br />n<br />n<b>Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. Charlie Chaplin</b>

I see <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=498002004">here</a> that the drought in the western US and Montana in particular is making not only national, but international news. Pretty sad when the drought is so bad that the international press is picking up on it.<br />n<br />n<b>Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence,…