Category: The Ranch
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FIgured It Out
I always love when i read articles that tell me how to do things in the ranch business that I have all ready figured out. <a href="http://beefmagazine.com/cowcalfweekly/consider-grass-alfalfa-mixture/">This one</a> is telling me that I might want to consider grass/alfalfa mixture for hay ground instead of straight alfalfa. <br />n<br />nIt's kind of funny to me because…
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Tall Grass
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cow11042007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cow11042007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A cow grazing out in a field of hay that i let go to seed this year. I see more and more cows out in the field all the time now that other grass is running out. I'm hoping by…
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Weather
This weather is unbelievable. Sunday morning it was 10 below zero here. Crisp and cold. Monday morning it was 30 above zero for a 40 degree temperature difference. Then guess what? It rained last night, yes rain. When I got home from my daughter's band concert last night it was 45 degrees above zero and…
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Licking
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/lick11192007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/lick11192007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I'm trying something a little different this year. Protein tubs. They have been around for quite a while but I have never used them before. They are big tubs with a free choice protein supplement in them which is supposed to…
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Life Blood
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/water410112007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/water410112007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It's amazing how bad some of the springs around here can look and smell but the cattle still think it's really good water. I guess when you live in this dry of country stinky, smelly water is better than none…
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Long Run
About a week and a half ago my freshly weaned calves got to running and tore up a little fence and some of them were in the wrong pasture. No big deal. This kind of thing happens and I didn't mention it here. We got the ones that were out back in and went about…
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So True
Some times things are going on that I have no way of relating to people who aren't in the agricultural business. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/10/14/news/business/20-costs.txt">This story about rising prices for agricultural producers</a> is one of those things. It very clearly explains how rising production costs are really eating into any money we might be able to make…
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Caught Up
We are getting everything caught up around here slowly but surely. They had quite a rain snow storm west of us over the weekends with amounts of moisture well over an inch. We got less than a quarter of an inch so it never really slowed us down at all. It is the most moisture…
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Paint
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/paint10022007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/paint10022007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<br />n<center>Paint coming up and seeing what I am up to. Taken 10/02/2007.</center><br />n<br />n<br />nWhy is it the critters you really are fond of are such a pain in the ass? When it comes to horses the ones that…
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Bulls
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Bulls/bulls10032007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Bulls/bulls10032007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I knew there was still two bulls missing back in the Williams place. I've looked and looked for them but the weather was too hot and they were holed up. I made a stab at finding them yesterday and there…