Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Moving
Spent the day yesterday and I will spend the day today moving cattle up to Rosie's place for the branding on Sunday. The cattle always hate to travel up to that pasture for some reason and it's always a battle to get them their. I will get it accomplished though.<br />n<br />nI had a neighbor…
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Dry
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/weather04212008?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/weather04212008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This is all the moisture that Mother Nature could manage out of the latest "storm." Less than an inch of snow. Boy, we could really use some significant moisture around here. Taken 4/21/2008.</center>
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Surprise
Did you know that as corn prices go up, feedlots don't buy as many calves? Duh, no shit.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?articleID=20080420_5_E2_spanc32863">Record corn prices affect calf purchases</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. feedlots slashed purchases of young cattle 11 percent last month, more than expected, as costs for corn-based feed surged and losses widened.<br />n<br />nFeedlots bought 1.736 million…
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Shortage?
<a href="http://www2.nysun.com/article/74994?page_no=1">Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand…
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Getting There
Well, it's been a very busy week but I'm getting things done. Got all the renovating done and got all the cattle worked out to the hills so that is all a plus. I say that like there is a minus, I guess there is, moisture. There is a chance today and the rest of…
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Trade News
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSSEO27686720080418?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews">South Korea relaxes U.S. beef import rules</a><br />n<br />nThis news has been trumpeted all over the agricultural sites. South Korea will accept US Beef again and its great. I'm going to throw a little cold water on this news though. I don't beleive it will happen. Check this out.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea on Friday…
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Beat Up
For the past couple of days I have had the joy of sitting on a tractor renovating the alfalfa. I think I would feel better if My Darling Wife beat me with a stick. I don't know what it is about farming but it cripples me up ever time I have to sit on a…
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Luck
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/04/14/beef-wheat.html?ref=rss">Beef is out; wheat is in: farmers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Financially beleaguered cattle producers in Manitoba are selling off their herds and switching to wheat, capitalizing on soaring grain prices.<br />n<br />nMartin Unrau, president of the Manitoba Cattle Producers Association, is just one of hundreds of ranchers expected to sell off their animals this year and…
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Beautiful
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/trail04142008?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/trail04142008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Brining some cows up to kick out to the spring pasture. it was a beautiful day for such a ride. Taken 4/14/2008.</center>
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Information
A little more interesting information about the Plum Island animal research facility.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1730322,00.html?xid=rss-topstories">Accidents at Disease Lab Revealed</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The only U.S. facility allowed to research the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease experienced several accidents with the feared virus, the Bush administration acknowledged Friday.<br />n<br />nA 1978 release of the virus into cattle holding pens…