Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: Cattle

  • Demand

    <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050329/od_nm/madcow_japan_petition_dc" target="_new">I see</a> not everyone in Japan is afraid of US beef.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japanese fans of beef-and-rice bowl dishes have collected some 1.19 million signatures in a petition demanding that Japan lift a 15-month-old ban on U.S. beef, Kyodo news agency reported</blockquote><br />n<br />nWe keep getting a step closer to maybe opening up this…

  • Canada Cattle Update

    <blockquote>R-Calf Cattle Update: Second Lawsuit Filed Against <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym><br />n<br />n (Billings, Mont.) &acirc;

  • Compliance

    So it turns out that a cow born with Canada's latest <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> victim was sent to <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a9DS8ujaytSY&refer=canada" target="_new">slaughter in the US</a> a few years ago. Is this a surprise? Not to me. Did it have <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym>? Hard to tell but I doubt it. Hey, I have to think…

  • Ughhh!

    Throat so sore I can't speak, some people say this is a good thing, so cold am about to freeze to death, ache all over. Places to go, cattle to feed, things to do. It's going to be a miserable day.

  • Relief

    I would like to point out <a href="http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/my-pay-page/PX3BEL97U9A4I/103-2014437-9400630" target="_new">Amazon's</a> site to donate to the Red Cross to help tsunami disaster relief victims. Whatever you might feel about the Red Cross they are very good about getting relief efforts rolling and could use some help.<br />n<br />n<b>I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.…

  • BSE

    I just mentioned last night the news reported that the border is going to open with Canada. Now what happens? Canada reports another case of <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/12/30/mad-cow-border041230.html" target="_new"><acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym></a>. They are very quick to point out that it is in a 10 year old dairy cow which means it would not be able…

  • Care

    I mentioned in the previous post that it felt funny feeding the cattle with no snow on the ground. I had to start feeding everything though due to the lack of good quality graze though. I finally started to feed the cows some hay since they looked good but thier energy levels were starting to…

  • Yuletide

    A whole new meaning to the word Yuletide.<br />n<br />n<!–more–><br />n<br />n<img src="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/tide.jpg"<br />n<br />nI thought I was going to bust a gut on this one. Enjoy.<br />n<br />n<b>When humor goes, there goes civilization. Erma Bombeck

  • Responsibility

    I talk about personal responsibility and the importance of it quite a bit and <a title="'Indifferent' rancher charged with manslaughter " href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/12/15/build/nation/45-rancher.inc" target="_blank">this ranchers</a> lack of it is a perfect example. I am just going on this news report and don't have the whole history at hand but he is getting what he deserves if…

  • Yet Again

    I again express my condolences to Wyoming ranchers. More cattle have been found with <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/11/13/build/wyoming/60-wyo-cattle.inc" target="_blank">brucellosis</a> so the restrictions on their cattle will continue. This makes doing buisness as a rancher extremly hard.<br />n<br />n<b>Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. Susan…