Category: ranch
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New Feedlot Pictures
<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 250px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/feedlot/100_1621?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/feedlot/100_1621.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Looking damn good if you ask me, but I might be a little prejudiced. May 2006.</div></div>The Guy that bought the calves last fall was up in the area this past week. He stopped by and visited with me and left behind…
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Gambling
<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 167px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/drill05252006?full=1'><img width='167' height='250' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/drill05252006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Drilling a new well to replace a well that isn't pumping very much any more. Taken 5/25/2006.</div></div>One of the biggest Gambles out there is farming and ranching. Gambling on the weather, markets, nature and whatever else comes your way. I call…
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It’s Time
I know, I know, I'm a little behind schedule. I should have turned the bulls out to the yearling replacement heifers 2 days ago but I didn't. I felt that getting the seeding done was more important. The seeding is done though. What a relief. That has been praying at my mind for over a…
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Branding
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/branding04272006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/branding04272006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a><center><br />n<br />n<center>Some of the neighbors roping calves for the little branding. The wind was blowing like hell making it a very difficult branding day. Ropes don't sail to well in high wind. Taken 4/28/2006.<center><br />n<br />nWell, we got them done. Overall the branding went well. We…
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Busy, Busy
Busy, Busy, Busy. Busy getting spring work done. It's finally getting dry enough to farm a little so I am trying to get some of that done. I might have been able to get some done earlier but everything I want to plant this year, around 200 acres, has alfalfa with it and you want…
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Waiting For The Next Blow
My Darling Wife always tells me that bad things happen in packets of three. I'm waiting for the third one.<br />n<br />nTo start with <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1694-Cows-Are-Out.html">the little lady</a>, the last bum I found, died last night. It wasn't particularly surprised by this. I had fed it and doctored on it but I could not get…
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To The Hills
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/trail04102006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/trail04102006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/waiting04102006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/waiting04102006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>It's that time of year again. Feeding is over and the cows get to go into the hills. Yesterday we took the two-year old heifers out to the hills. It was a long, tiring trek, 8…
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Kicking Out
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/curious04042006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/curious04042006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>It's that time of year again to start moving critters out to the hills and off of feed. The green grass is coming along really well and the pastures I am going into have quite a bit of old grass to go along with the new…
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Warmer Weather
It finally turned warm and spring like so it's time to get ready to turn everything out into the hills. I see a little green grass starting to poke its head through so it's time. I've had the hired man checking out fences in the pastures we will be going out to so that they…
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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Interesting series of articles in the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/http://www.billingsgazette.net/">Gazette</a> about conservation Easements and there use and affects in Eastern Montana. <br />n<br />nThe Good:<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/26/news/state/25-easement.txt">Conservation easement preserve family's way of life</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Glasgow-area rancher Steve Page wasn't thinking about tax incentives when he negotiated a conservation easement on 24,000 acres in Valley County.<br />n<br…