Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Replacements
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/heifers10022006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/heifers10022006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The replacement heifers peacefully grazing on the volunteer barley coming up. It sure is nice to have them out of the corral and grazing green grass. Taken 10/02/2006.</center>
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I Will Say it Again
The question I posed over a year ago is still not answered, what makes Gov Schweitzer and his sycophants ever believe the environmental groups are going to allow coal production of any kind in the state of Montana?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1167-Question-As-Yet-Unanswered.html" >Question As Yet Unanswered</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Every time I read a story about <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov.…
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Jump
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/inspection09292006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/inspection09292006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The heifer calves being brand inspected as they come off the scale. They were really spooked by it for some reason where the steers were a lot calmer. Taken 9/29/2006.</center>
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Finally An Explanation
I have been noticing more and more advertising lately from the big auto makers on the E85 Flex Fuel vehicles they arfe selling and how they are good for the enviroment and the nation. I can't figure out how this works. E85 fuel is sold in very few places so how do these Flex Fuel…
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The Wasp Whisperer
We have a new one this fall around the house. Around this area in the fall the wasps all flock to the house and will fly in whenever you open the door. My boy has discovered these wasps. He finds them and insists on trying to catch them with his fingers. We react as quick…
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Long, Hot Day
Yesterday was sure a long, hot day. Worked all 500+ cows and then trailed them 5 miles out to the hills. Quite a chore. My two girls were exhausted last night and went to bed earlier than I have seen in a long time. Good, a little bit of hard work never killed anyone.<br />n<br…
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Just Goes To Show You
<a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060929/NEWS01/609290325/1002" >Rehberg opts out of signing House drought petition</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana's lone congressman is refusing to buck Republican leaders and join with Democrats to force a vote on drought assistance for the nation's farmers and ranchers.<br />n<br />nRep. Dennis Rehberg will not sign the House Democrats' petition that seeks to bring the matter to…
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Heifers
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/hfrs09292006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/hfrs09292006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Here is a picture of the heifer calves that I sold. My Darling Wife managed to take a few shots while I was busy. Everybody present commented on how framy the calves were and how they are really prepared to gain weight for the…
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Unhelpful People
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Dry Year
Boy, the calf weights sure showed it was dry this summer. The steers averaged 527 lbs. and the heifers averaged 478 lbs. Quite a bit under what I had contracted for. That's the breaks and it's what happens in a dry year. I could whine and cry about it or accept it and go on…