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  • Storm Cattle Update

    <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=95397" >Colorado Blizzard Could Top ’97 Storm’s Livestock Death Toll</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Colorado Agriculture Commissioner Don Ament told Meatingplace today that he expects a Dec. 28 blizzard that hit the Rocky Mountain state will be a crueler killer than a 1997 storm that claimed 30,000 heads of livestock in the same region.<br />n<br />nAment said…

  • Cattle Troubles

    I talked a couple a days ago about the <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2332-Nasty-Storm.html">winter storm</a> and the livestock that is in trouble with it. A little more information is trickling into the national consciousness about it now.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4439593.html" >Haylift to save snowbound cattle begins</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>National Guard helicopters dropped emergency food bundles and bales of hay…

  • Nasty Storm

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WINTER_STORMS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT#" >12 deaths blamed on brutal winter storm</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The powerful winter storm that punished Colorado barreled into the Plains states, burying roads with drifting snow and snapping power lines that fed electricity to thousands.<br />n<br />nAt least 12 deaths have been blamed on the storm; most died on icy roads.<br />n<br />nA fleet…