Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: Cattle

  • Gathering

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/gather09242006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/gather09242006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Gathering pairs in the early morning. I know this picture is old, the calves are weaned now, but sometimes I get behind posting things. Taken 9/24/2006.</center>

  • Light

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/mornlight09192006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/mornlight09192006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Cows in the early morning light. This picture was taken a while ago so it is not indicative of what it looks like around here now. Taken 9/19/2006.</center>

  • Problem and Solution

    <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=386C934F-B382-DA28-DD56F93DBC83B284" >Beef packers cut slaughter</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Three of the nations largest beef packers have announced reductions in their slaughter operations because of red ink and lower demand for beef.<br />n<br />nDTN is reporting that Tyson Food Inc. announced it will reduce cattle slaughter by about 12,000 head a week over the next six weeks…

  • Calm Them Down

    Here is one way to calm down wild cattle.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060922/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_poland_cow">Polish woman caught growing marijuana for cow</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Polish woman who grew marijuana to calm the nerves of her cow has been charged with cultivating a narcotic by police in the western town of Lobez.<br />n<br />nThe cow had been "skittish and unruly"…

  • Sun Up

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/breaking09192006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/breaking09192006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun breaking over the hills illuminating the cows working their way in for weaning/shipping. Taken 9/19/2006. </center>

  • Grazing

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/grazing081472006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/grazing081472006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cattle contentedly grazing on the dry, brown grass. Bitch as I will about it the dry, brown grass has a lot of punch to it and the calves are really growing well on it. Less than a month to shipping. Let them put…

  • Cows Have Accents?

    <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401843&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490" title="WTF?">Cows with regional accents? Pull the udder one</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>They have one word in their vocabulary and it's a single syllable at that.<br />n<br />nBut farmers claim cows appear to 'moo' in regional accents, despite their limited conversational skills.<br />n<br />nHerds in the West Country have been heard lowing with a distinctive Somerset…

  • Fine Looking Critter

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/pair08142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/pair08142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This particular pair kept hiding out on me as I was cleaning out the Williams place. The only proof I had she existed was this picture. I finally found here yesterday and got her out. Damn fine calf the old girl is raising. Taken…

  • Strays

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/strays07312006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/strays07312006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Rounding up strays from a neighbor's place. No fancy national ID tags involved, just a brand and a lot of common sense. Taken 7/31/2006.</center>

  • Crystal Ball

    <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=59627" title="Crystal Ball Forecasting">Cattle Outlook: 2007 Similar Or A Little Lower Than 2006</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) annual outlook survey for the remainder of the year and 2007 for livestock and the marketing year of 2006-2007 for crops shows the Nebraska price for the year of 2006 at $83.20 and for…