Category: Cattle

  • New Feedlot Pictures

    <div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 250px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/feedlot/100_1621?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/feedlot/100_1621.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Looking damn good if you ask me, but I might be a little prejudiced. May 2006.</div></div>The Guy that bought the calves last fall was up in the area this past week. He stopped by and visited with me and left behind…

  • Gather

    <center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/gather05202006?full=1'><img width='427' height='640' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/gather05202006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Early morning gather at my branding last week. Yes, there is cows in front of me, they might be hard to see but they are there. Taken 5/20/2006.<center>

  • Moving Pairs

    <center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/trail05222006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/trail05222006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We took a few more pairs up to the high country after the branding them. The calves were a little sore yet but we took our time and made it fine. I needed to get some of the cattle off the water in the pasture…

  • Mealy Mouthed Platitudes

    <a href="http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/business/news/20060520p2g00m0bu008000c.html">Japan making ready to resume U.S. beef imports in July</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Japanese government on Friday began to make preparations for the resumption of U.S. beef imports in July, paying particular attention to how it will deepen communications with consumers still worried about mad cow disease.<br />n<br />nAt a three-day working-level meeting between Japan…

  • Will It Ever Happen?

    <a href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20060507TDY01005.htm"> Pressure grows to lift U.S. beef ban</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Calls from government officials to resume beef imports from the United States have been growing as Tokyo and Washington are set to hold negotiations on the issue later this month, with many officials advocating an end to the ban even before the safety of U.S.…

  • So Full Of S**t He Stinks

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/29/news/local/40-japan.txt">Consul: Japan beef deal near</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japanese and U.S. officials are in the final stages of negotiating an end to a ban on American beef imports to Japan, the Japanese consul general in Seattle said Friday.<br />n<br />n"I can't say when, but it's only a matter of time," Kazuo Tanaka said during a visit…

  • Beef News

    <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=axd6YYeYJ8DI&refer=asia">South Korea to Resume U.S. Beef Imports as Agreed</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea, which was the third- biggest buyer of U.S. beef in 2003, will resume imports from the U.S. after confirming a cow infected with mad-cow disease in Alabama was born before feed restrictions were imposed.<br />n<br />nSouth Korean veterinarians confirmed the cow was…

  • Dry Place

    <center><b>FROM THE PHOTO ARCHIVES </b><br />nNew not previously published</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/calves03312006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/calves03312006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Calves enjoying a dry place to lay after a snow storm. Taken 3/31/2006.</center>

  • Good News

    <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=AD9F076C-0DCF-162A-79F8572C98CC4BE3">Japanese steer suspected of <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> tests negative</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Tests of a 20-month-old Japanese steer for bovine spongiform encephalopathy have come back negative. The steer was slaughtered last week and initially tested positive for <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym>, but according to wire reports, further tests showed that the young Holstein did not…

  • Japan to Open Beef Market?

    I find this interesting piece out of Australia this morning but I can find no verification anywhere else on what it says.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1605659.htm">US reaches agreement with Japan to reopen beef market</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>US Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>) officials says…