Category: Cattle

Having a baby is really going high tech now. You, for a price (I wonder if insurance covers this), can <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/SciTech/Living/gender_selection_040426-1.html">chose the sex of your baby</a> prior to fertilization of the egg with reasonable expectations of success. I don't know what to think of this. It kind of reduces the element of surprise. With…

While I might personally think that the low-slung pants craze is extremely stupid, <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/pants_too_low">Making them illegal</a> seems to be going a bit far to me. We let legislators do something like this and pretty soon they will be passing laws on how we can cut our hair or some other such thing.<br />n<br />n<b>The…

I had a friend e-mail me today and wonder about me posting at 04:16 am when I had mentioned that Sundays I slept in. That only occurs if nothing else is going on. This morning, early, I Had some neighbors come over and we branded a little bunch of calves. I had 110 to do…

Do you know what I hate almost as much as running out of chocolate? Crappy Customer Service. I went into Target and had a very rude lady "help" me try to find a coffee grinder. I was informed that they were moving the shelves around and weren't sure where things were. She went and looked…

It's one of those odd things. <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040418/bs_nm/bizbeef_prices_dc">Cattle prices are fairly good</a> and you don't have the grass to raise any due to the weather. Like the article states, that the prices are as high as they are with the <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> scare we had is simply amazing. This fits right in with…

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Whether you agree with the cause they were fighting for or not, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18871-2004Apr16?language=printer">these were extremely brave men</a> (registration required). To risk there lives in such an unproven contraption took a great amount of courage and today they will be given a proper burial in Charleston. As a former submariner I salute these brave men…

I read <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/16/build/state/25-school-funds-ruling.inc">this story</a> this morning and was flabbergasted. Whether the state is funding education enough is not the thing that made me wonder. My question is, where is the state supposed to get the money? You can't get blood from a turnip and taxes are all ready squeezing us so hard there is…

I can completely and totally empathize with the soldiers in Iraq that are <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/15/build/nation/20-duty-extended.inc">getting there duty extended</a>. You look forward to ending your tour and all of a sudden it gets extended and it opens a big void in you. I say all this with understanding since I had similar experiences when I was…

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/03/24/build/business/45-beef-consumption.inc">Less beef consumed as prices go higher</a>. Duh, hasn't the person that wrote this ever heard of the simple economic principle of supply and demand. I ain't even college educated and I understand that one. I have to admit though, that even with the <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> scare it has been a good…