Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: Cattle

  • I Guess I’m Stupid

    I always love articles like this one.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=26211">Cattle Cycles: Where Are We &amp; Where Are We Headed?</a><br />n<br />nIf you are in the business and keep minimal track of what is going on you know where we are and what is happening with out some "expert" telling you. I could see this article…

  • What’s the Surprise

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_BEEF_BATTLE?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Japanese shun U.S. beef, eat Australian</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Kenji Miyoda, savoring a bowl of rice topped with beef from Australia, raw egg and spicy sauce, believes Australian beef is far safer than American beef.<br />n<br />n"It tastes OK, it's cheap, and it fills me up," the 27-year-old banker said gobbling down his 450 yen ($4)…

  • Organic Beef

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/25/news/wyoming/20-organic-beef.txt">Rancher has stake in organic beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Cattle rancher Rod Morrison doesn't want to just sell you a steak.<br />n<br />nRather, he wants to sell you a choice cut of organic beef, letting you pick which ranch in the Bighorn Basin it came from. And he wants to let you make the purchase without…

  • Horrible

    The recent <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WILDFIRES?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">fires in Texas</a> are really scary for more than man. I hear about them and I think about the poor animals caught in these things.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.amarillo.com/stories/031406/new_4214034.shtml">Cattle ranchers describe 'worst nightmare' </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Ranchers saw the end of their world Monday.<br />n<br />nDead cattle mottled the landscape a day after winds…

  • Cows Waiting

    <center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cows03052006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cows03052006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows very impatiently waiting for feed. There was a couple of calves at this point and there will be a lot more to come. Calving Season=Spring. Don't you love it? Taken 3/5/2006.</center>

  • Japan Unsure

    <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030600142.html">Japan says unclear if U.S. beef actions would work</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japan's vice farm minister said on Monday it is unclear if actions proposed by Washington would help prevent shipments of banned U.S. beef to Japan.</blockquote><br />n<br />nMore stonewalling from Japan on the beef issue. Not surprising but it would be nice to get this…

  • Money To Burn

    Boy, it must be nice to have all that money to burn on a facility designed and built by Dr. Temple Grandin.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/05/news/business/45-stock.txt">Facility will handle livestock peacefully</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A new livestock handling facility that will have curved chutes, round pens and other stress-reducing innovations will be built this year at Montana State University's…

  • Herd Health

    I could make a lot of comments about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/28/news/state/96-cattle-screen.txt">this program</a> that some one has dreamed up but I won't. Suffice it to say that easiest way to deal with the problem of BVD-PI cattle, cattle that are persistently infected with Bovine Virus Diarrhoea, is watching your cattle a little more closely and culling poor…

  • True Reason For Beef Ban

    <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060209/ap_on_re_as/japan_whale_for_sale">Whale Meat Glut a Problem for Japan</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>But Tokyo has a dilemma: by rapidly expanding its whale hunt, Japan now kills more of the giant mammals than its consumers care to eat.<br />n<br />nThe result is an unprecedented glut of whale meat. Prices

  • Montana Governor Out to Destroy the Cattle Industry

    Isn't the decision those in power make just wonderful sometimes. The federal government tells ranchers they have to control brucellosis or face severe restrictions on their abilities to move cattle across state lines like our friends in <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1485-Idaho-and-Brucellosis.html">Idaho</a> and <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/83-Brucellosis-in-Wyoming.html">Wyoming</a> recently found out. Yet <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> decides that letting <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/09/news/state/40-gov-bison.txt">possibly…