Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Giving
<a href="http://mtpolitics.net">Craig</a> and <a href="http://leftinthewest.com">Matt</a> have joined forces this holiday season to support the Montana Food Bank Network. <a href="http://www.firstgiving.com/mtblogs">Go on over</a> and donate to this good cause and help others less fortunate. Thanks.<br />n<br />n<strong>The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt</strong>
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Truth
Is the ethanol craze helping us? Read <a href="http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/2006/11/ethanol-demand-boosting-corn-prices.html"> R-Squared's</a> latest for his take.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Corn ethanol is not the way. It is a jobs program, and a feel-good measure. It is doing next to nothing for us with respect to energy indepedence, and is now driving up food costs.</blockquote><br />n<br />nHe's even beginning to…
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Skeptical
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/01/news/state/25-farm.txt" >Farm-to-Table Perspective: Glendive project would boost local agriculture</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Bruce Smith, a farm boy from Dagmar, shipped food all over the country during his career in the corporate commodities business.<br />n<br />nOne of his employers sold frozen broccoli, cauliflower, spinach and Brussels sprouts. Another produced margarine, and a third had the second largest…
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Cold Weather Report
I guess I lived through the cold weather, if I'm writing this I am alive. It was down to -20 the other morning and we have had quite a few cold mornings. It's always such a fight when it's cold. Between cold engines not wanting to start, frozen water and cows thinking they are starving…
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NEWS FLASH
It has just come to my attention that <a href="http://karbonkountymoos.com/">Karen at Karbon Kounty Moos</a> is at a new web address. I wondered why she hadn't been posting much lately. Update those bookmarks. The <a href="http://karbonkountymoos.com/wordpress">older address</a> still works but is not being used. Go to the new one please.<br />n<br />n<strong>One's friends are that part…
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Damn Cold
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/cold11292006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/cold11292006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The yearling heifers waiting for a bite of feed on a cold morning. It was -20 F around here. Too damn cold for this time of year. The cattle might be ready for it but I definitely wasn't. Taken 11/29/2006.</center>
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Incredible
<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003454424_computer30.html" >Mysterious old Greek gadget turns out to be early computer</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>After a century of study, scientists have unlocked the secrets of a mysterious 2,100-year-old device known as the "Antikythera mechanism," showing it to be a complex and uncannily accurate astronomical computer.<br />n<br />nThe mechanism, recovered in more than 80 highly corroded fragments…
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A Little Premature
I think this headline is a little premature.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://enews.prismb2b.com/enews/beef/beef_stocker_trends/current" > National ID Is Dead </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> effectively and quietly knocked the National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>) in the head last Wednesday. It did…
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Solution
Can we say <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801382.html">Paper ballots</a>? It sure would solve the problem.<br />n<br />n<strong>Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. Ambrose Bierce</strong>
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What?
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/what11192006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/what11192006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This yearling heifer really has a personality. She has discovered she can step up to a person and take cake out of their hand. Here she seems to be saying. "what you want, fool." Taken 11/19/2006.</center>