Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Last Look
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/fall10022006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/fall10022006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A last look at the fall colors this year. Most of the leaves are gone now and another possibility of snow is on the way. Taken 10/02/2006.</center>
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A Crop In Itself
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400807.html?nav=rss_politics">Aid Is a Bumper Crop for Farmers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In the spring of 2000, Congress decided to do something about its costly and politically driven practice of giving farmers a disaster payment each time a storm damaged their crops.<br />n<br />nThe lawmakers voted to use $8 billion in new taxpayer subsidies to help farmers buy…
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Like It Should Be
I've talked about how an ID system should be voluntary and if it was economically viable should not even be required by the government. The free market will provide it. Starting to see it a little now. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/15/news/business/55-tag.txt">This article</a> uses the voluntary use of ID tags as an opening to explain how the <acronym…
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Snow
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/snow10112006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/snow10112006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The light snowfall we got the other day. They are talking about another system moving in this week. I'm glad I've weaned and done. I can sit and enjoy the moisture. Taken 10/11/2006.</center>
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How Low Can We Go
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061014/ap_on_re_us/detained_indefinitely">1 man still locked up from 9/11 sweeps </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In a jail cell at an immigration detention center in Arizona sits a man who is not charged with a crime, not suspected of a crime, not considered a danger to society.<br />n<br />nBut he has been in custody for five years.<br />n<br />nHis…
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Scary
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/scary10132006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/scary10132006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We were out gathering the yearlings yesterday when I came across this scary sight. Hunters. The thought of riding around on a four legged critter with hunters of unknown quality around shooting things with four legs is very scary. A person might get shot.…
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Very Late
I have heard the saying, "better late than never," but this one is beyond late.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.livestockroundup.com/articles/2006/10/13/news/farm_and_ranch_guide/ag_news/livestock_news/live10.txt" >Make plans for fall calf marketing</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:57 AM PDT<br />n <br />n<br />nLivestock Marketing Economist<br />n<br />nCow-calf producers should start making plans for marketing calves, even though the actual sales date may…
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Turkeys
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/turkeys10122006?full=1'><img width='640' height='378' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/turkeys10122006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>My Darling Wife got some pictures of turkeys yesterday. She's luckier than I am, I can never get this close. Taken 10/13/2006.</center>
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Immaculate Conception?
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/od_nm/vietnam_pregnancy_dc" >Death-row prisoner gets pregnant in solitary</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>death-row inmate held in solitary confinement in Vietnam for almost a year is pregnant and is seeking a pardon to give birth, a newspaper reported on Thursday.<br />n<br />nhe Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper quoted a police doctor as saying tests in September confirmed that convicted heroin…
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Fog Lifting
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/foggy10102006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/foggy10102006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The fog lifting off the hills after a light rain storm. It's sure been wet this fall as compared to how dry it was all summer. No complaints from me though. I'm sure the beet farmers are complaining. This kind of weather makes it…