Category: australia
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Advertising
If you have read here long you know that while I am not fond of the beef checkoff, I don't mind it either. Advertising never hurts, unless you advertise like this. Actually I know it's not an advertisement, but it might be mistaken as one. <a class="block_level" href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/3074-Advertising.html#extended">Continue reading "Advertising"</a>
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Judicial Misconduct
<a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22896877-601,00.html">Child rape sentence 'pathetic'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Nine males who pleaded guilty last month to gang-raping a 10-year-old girl at the Aurukun Aboriginal community on Cape York have escaped a prison term, with the sentencing judge saying the child victim "probably agreed" to have sex with them.</blockquote><br />n<br />nNine men rape a 10 year old girl…
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Meltdown
The Australian cattle industry <a href="http://www.kticam.com/news/agricultural/efc2dd23-29b8-4d38-8ebe-20378233c818">appears to be in meltdown</a> because of drought and grain prices down under.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Record high grain prices have thrown Australia's A$4 billion ($3.5 billion) beef cattle industry into disarray, emptying feedlots, cutting cattle saleyard prices and triggering price rises for domestic and exported beef. <br />nThe world's biggest beef…
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Permanent Dry
I'm really beginning to wonder if <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/climate-watch/no-more-drought-its-a-permanent-dry/2007/09/06/1188783415754.html">this</a> isn't going to be the situation in Montana any more. The Permanent Dry instead of calling it a drought every year. I know its a funny thing to post on a morning where I got a little moisture last night, the first in about 3 months, but…
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Cheap And Tasty
It appears that the South Korean government is a little out of touch with its people when it comes to US Beef. The Government has been fighting to keep US Beef out for a long time now but the door is finally cracked open and what has happened? The stores <a href="http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200707/200707160009.html">sold out of the…
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Ongoing Drought
A little more information on the drought Down Under.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21620338-5001021,00.html" >Cattle feed in crisis</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>AUSTRALIA could be importing food for cattle within weeks, as the crisis in the country's rural sector worsens, breaking more and more farmers' hearts.<br />nAgriculture Minister Peter McGauran said yesterday the "real problem" facing beef and dairy farmers…
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Talk About a Drought
<a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP107703.htm" >Drought scars Australia's land and farmers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Farmers battling Australia's worst drought on record are shooting cattle they can't feed, abandoning dustbowl farms to search for grass with hungry livestock and hand-feeding animals on moonscape paddocks.<br />n<br />nThe worst drought in 100 years has left farmers the length and breadth of Australia looking…
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Australia Drought
<a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21045763-421,00.html" >Cattle slaughter rate jumps as farmers battle drought</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>CATTLE are being slaughtered at rates not seen for 30 years, with almost three-quarters of a million killed a month as farmers battle the drought.<br />n<br />nFigures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday reveal a rise in the number of cattle slaughtered…
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I Versus a Y Makes A Big Difference
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061229/od_nm/germany_tourist_dc" >A tale of two cities for confused tourist</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometres away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.<br />n<br />nDressed for the Australian summer in t-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt…