Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: Agriculture

  • More Information

    More information on Britain's foot and mouth disease problem. The outbreak was likely from a <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_FOOT_AND_MOUTH?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">government sponsored lab</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Hopes rose Sunday that a potentially disastrous foot-and-mouth outbreak in Britain could be contained, as scientists grew increasingly suspicious that the disease came from a high-security laboratory near the infected farm.<br />n<br />nThe agriculture department…

  • Britan’s Outbreak

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_FOOT_AND_MOUTH?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Foot-and-mouth disease detected in UK</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Scientists worked Saturday to trace the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on an English farm, a development that prompted the European Union to ban livestock imports from Britain, an official said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nIn 2001, foot and mouth disease devastated Britain's meat industries and I'm sure everyone…

  • Permanent Disaster Relief

    In a lot of ways, I really wonder about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/07/25/news/wyoming/40-relief.txt">this permanent disaster relief idea</a>. I really truly believe that if there was a permanent disaster relief fund, there would be pressure to find a disaster every year to use the funds that are there. They will never build up to be used in a…

  • Damage Seen From On High

    There was a pretty nasty hail storm went across Northern Montana earlier in the month of June. I gave it a <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2688-Hay-Down.html">brief mention</a> and left it at that and there was some comments on how bad it was. I found it really interesting that the damage could be seen in satellite imagery.<br />n<br />n<center><a…

  • One Calf Does Not Equal Nine Lambs

    It appears that a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/21/news/state/84-wolf.txt">wolf killing 9 lambs</a> near Big Timber merits an attempt to kill it, while a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/21/news/state/86-calf.txt">calf killed by wolves near Eureka</a> (The original story headline was "Calf kills wolf near Eureka." I'm sure this has been corrected by now though thinking about it, it would be nice if calves…

  • I Missed The Memo

    I tell you what, I've obviously missed some memo somewhere.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>It comes as no surprise to anyone that the number of organic farms is booming to meet consumer demand for healthy food. </blockquote><br />n<br />nThis is the opening sentence in <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/10/news/business/50-cowfeed.txt">this article</a>. When did the decision come about that organic=healthy? <br />n<br />n<blockquote>organic-…

  • I’m Not Alone

    I had a <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2569-Responding.html">discussion</a> a while ago about ethanol and Distillers Grain and the cattle feeding industry moving north. My basic contention was that the ethanol plants will either find a way to ship the distillers grain to feedlots where they are presently at or the ethanol plants will move to the feedlot areas…

  • Concerns

    I've been somewhat curious about Distillers Grain, leftover product from ethanol production, and the feeding of it to livestock. The claims I read are how wonderful it is to feed to cattle. I know nothing about it and probably will never feed it since I don't feed anything in a bunk, it's all open range…

  • Responding

    I had a comment left by my buddy at MSU, Paul, and I decided to answer it here instead of the comments.<br />n<br />nHere's the comment to start with.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>This corn thing is all hype to drive down the prices we get for our calves this year. After processing the corn in the ethanol…

  • Cattle Herd News

    It appears that the US cattle herd is <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/risk_management_content.asp?contentid=120988">not expanding</a> at the present time. This can be seen because female slaughter is keeping pace with steer slaughter which is a strong indicator that the US herd is remaining steady.<br />n<br />nThis is really good news because we have had a few good years, marketing…