Category: Cattle
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Reporting, I Guess
I see over at New West they are "reporting", I use that term loosely here, that Idaho has <a href="http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/5160/">lost its brucellosis free status</a>. This peaked my interest as stories that involve cattle do so I looked into it. The "reporter", Bill Schneider, uses as source material for this report a website called <a href="http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/bisonrpt.html">Ralph…
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I Understand
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2006/01/06/build/state/32-escaped-cow.inc">Cow flees packing plant, dodges vehicles, train before recapture</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A cow that escaped a slaughterhouse here dodged vehicles, ran in front of a train, braved the icy Missouri River and took three tranquilizer darts before being recaptured six hours later.</blockquote><br />n<br />nNow, I like a good chunk of beef as much as the…
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Animal ID
Someone dropped a comment in an older post about a blog I found of interest called <a href="http://www.stopanimalid.org/blog/">Stop Animal ID</a>. If I read it right its an effort to promote understanding to all people about what the whole National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>) is proposing and doing. It bears for more…
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Beef is Safe
I saw a story this morning that claims the Government isn't doing enough to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/05/build/nation/50-madcow.inc">protect people and animals from <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym></a>. The article is short on facts and long on hyperbole but as a rancher I felt it important to respond.<br />n<br />nTo start with I will say that overall beef production…
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Opening Up
I see <a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=70998">Thailand is lifting its import ban on US beef</a>. I don't know how big of market that is for US beef but every little bit helps.<br />n<br />n<b>Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. Euripides</b>
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Waiting
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/waiting12302005?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/waiting12302005.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />nThe cows patiently waiting for feed on the feed ground after a small snow storm. We haven't seen the sky clear and sun shining very often the past couple of weeks. Lot's of clouds but no moisture. When the sun comes out it's nice.<br />n<br…
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Producers Problems
Everybody knows my position on the big meat packers and Texas cattle feeders and how these big guys influence the cattle business. Over at <a href="http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/"> Northview Diary</a> I found the Dairy producers Take on <a href="http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/2006/01/on-this-second-day-of-2006-it-is-back.html">big producers</a> and the effect on them.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>However, the free and easy import of Canadian cows is rough…
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Punky
I wish I could say there was something going on around here exciting, but there isn't. Same old routine of feeding hay to the cows every day. It is always a guessing game if it's going to be muddy or not which means it a guessing game which hay we are using, beyond that the…
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Old Ranchers Tale
There is Old <s>Wives</s> Ranchers Tale that if the winter is tough and cold the calves born in the spring will be larger than normal, i.e. larger than if the winter was mild and warm, and you will have more calving difficulties. The theory behind it being that more of a cows energy is directed…
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One Thing After Another
First its <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2005/09/02/build/state/90-vs.inc">vesicular stomatitis</a> now its <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/09/16/build/state/30-anthrax.inc">anthrax</a>. What's next in line for us cattlemen, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1129178&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">bubonic plague</a>?<br />n<br />n<b>In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. Francis Bacon</b>